Vocabulary Word
Word: impeach
Definition: charge (a public official) with crime in office; raise doubts about; indict; Ex. impeach a witness's credibility
Definition: charge (a public official) with crime in office; raise doubts about; indict; Ex. impeach a witness's credibility
Sentences Containing 'impeach'
She will be in a state of mind to impeach the justice of the Republic.
When any shall either impeach thee with false accusations, or hatefully reproach thee, or shall use any such carriage towards thee, get thee presently to their minds and understandings, and look in them, and behold what manner of men they be.
Here are three instances, then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there is no good ground to impeach.
Moves to impeach sitting justices have occurred more recently (for example, William O. Douglas was the subject of hearings twice, once in 1953 and again in 1970), but they have not reached a vote in the House.
The court saw no reason to impeach the transaction by which the new bonds were substituted for the old, and the writ of error was accordingly dismissed.
On 12 March 2004 the executive power of then president Roh Moo-hyun was suspended when the Assembly voted to impeach him and Prime Minister Goh Kun became an Acting President.