Holding someone in jail on unproved charges isn't punishment without trial.

There are enough proved cases to make this point without diluting our criticism with unproved charges.

Unproved charges of dumping and other predatory practices led to orderly marketing arrangements by Japan in 1977.

At this point there was an embarrassed silence, particularly from young Spam, who had never believed the unproved charges that the Buggers were "scroll-carrying dwarves."

Business groups criticized those drafts, saying they would allow companies to be disqualified based on mere unproved charges or on a single violation that occurred decades ago.

Military officials have bristled at the criticism, arguing that Colombia needs the legislation because current law has allowed a flurry of unproved charges against security forces and hamstrung military operations.

Others, such as the entirely unproved charge that Churchill withheld information from Roosevelt on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, will continue to resurface until the relevant British files are opened.

But in a display of the turbulent emotions aroused by the persistent but unproved charges, the widow, Sophia Casey, was immediately engaged in a sharp confrontation with several conspiracy theorists who challenged the report.

The leaks in California about baseball players using steroids betrayed grand-jury secrecy and circulated unproved charges against players, but they also forced the baseball industry to confront its coverups of drug abuse and unfair competition.

Their departure fueled claims of official corruption and were the strongest blow to a government that had been besieged by the opposition People's National Movement ever since it was re-elected last year amid largely unproved charges of voter fraud.

The scandal also sparked unproved charges of illegal campaign contributions from Cuba and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and political connections to the assassination of Celso Daniel, mayor of the city of Santo André.

On June 1, 1950, she delivered a fifteen-minute speech on the Senate floor, known as the "Declaration of Conscience," in which she refused to name McCarthy directly but denounced "the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle."

"Dissenters complained that Reagan was engaging in unnecessary violence," recalled Ed Meese, "(including unproved charges that U.S. bombs had killed Qaddafi's adopted child), that the raid really had not accomplished anything, and that our retaliation would only spur Qaddafi on to greater acts of terrorism."