Synonyms for press charges
press charges

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1. press chargesverb

   Synonyms:
   complain, accuse, file a complaint

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1. Steinunn Guðjónsdóttir:

   With #MeToo, women are now coming out and naming the men who raped them, even if they haven't pressed charges against them, and many people are like :' Whoa, whoa, whoa ! You can not do it like this, you have to do it the right way,' there's a lot of pressure on survivors to do the' correct thing' and press charges and try to have the perpetrator convicted, but the' right way' isn't working, the vast majority of cases, they don't even make it to the judge. So they don't get any judgment on whether the perpetrator is guilty or not. It's just a mess.

2. Triantafillos Parlapanides:

   We don’t always press charges which are based on each individual case, we always call and notify the police of all incidents. Adriana had several cuts and bruises.

3. Father Hendricks:

   There will be a meeting and then it will be decided, you know, what your parents want to do about anything. Do they want to try... to press charges... but that's between them and the bishop, they will decide, ask you what your decision is, what you're going to do, whether there will be a case or not or whether, you know, a settlement, I don't know. But as far as after that, I don't know what's going to happen. I really will have to probably really resign, retire now.

4. Wongsiri Promchana:

   Police have yet to press charges on anyone, they are now looking into whether the incident was an accident or could have been prevented.

5. New York:

   Why would I have met with the DA in the first place, years ago, if I wasn't willing to press charges ? ... This was all very upsetting to me.