They essentially charged the F.B.I. with negligence and failure to protect the rights workers.

The case has an unusually high profile, in part because Cherie Booth, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, is on the Gurkhas' legal team, essentially charging her husband's government with human rights violations.

Under Article 24C of the National Basketball Association's constitution of bylaws, the Knicks essentially charged Miami with interference with an employee under contract.

Because of the judge's decision, Mr. James was served with new warrants yesterday that essentially charged him with the same crimes, but under the auspices of adult court.

Because of the board's decision, however, another unit owner on the same floor filed suit, charging essentially that the board could not give one unit owner exclusive use of property owned by all unit owners.

Mr. Olofson essentially charged that the company increased revenue through the manipulation of contracts that allowed it to show rising sales while keeping the expenses related to those sales off its income statement.

The odd thing about differential pricing is that KPN is essentially charging for access to services it doesn't even control.

In his ruling Judge Rowland said the bank essentially charged the village for a service that it did not deliver.

They also argued that the practice essentially charged families for their relatives' incarceration.

The case arose from a class action filed in Florida against a payday lender alleging the loan agreements the plaintiffs had signed were unenforceable because they essentially charged a higher interest rate than that permitted under Florida law.