The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Armenians partially deny the allegation, claiming that Russian side was equally supplying Armenian and Azerbaijani sides with weapons and mercenaries.

Mistreated and starved, the imprisoned Louis XVII was forced to confess to incest with his mother, Queen Marie-Antoinette, ( untrue ; separated early, son and mother were disallowed communication, nevertheless, the allegation helped earn her the guillotine ).

This " golden rice 2 " was developed and patented by Syngenta, which provoked Greenpeace to renew its allegation that the project is driven by profit motives.

Some " calumnious fictions " were written about Herodotus in a work titled On the Malice of Herodotus, by Plutarch, a Theban by birth, ( or it might have been a Pseudo-Plutarch, in this case " a great collector of slanders "), including the allegation that the historian was prejudiced against Thebes because the authorities there had denied him permission to set up a school.

This was also an allegation made in several anti-Catholic writings on alleged conspiracies by " papists ".

The allegation was also repeated by Shirley MacLaine in her book Out On a Limb.

On March 29, 1989, American business magnate Michael Milken was indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud relating to an investigation into an allegation of insider trading and other offenses.

In a more recent case an internal investigation at the National Centre for Cell Science ( NCCS ), Pune determined that there was evidence of misconduct by Dr. Gopal Kundu, but an external committee was then organised which dismissed the allegation, and the NCCS issued a memorandum exonerating the authors of all charges of misconduct.

Following publication of a Letter to the Editor from Kranke and colleagues in April 2000, along with a non-specific response from Dr. Fujii, there was no follow-up on the allegation of data manipulation and no request for an institutional review of Dr. Fujii's research.

In 1980, the World Bank Administrative Tribunal was established to decide on disputes between the World Bank Group and its staff where allegation of non-observance of contracts of employment or terms of appointment had not been honored.

After hurried consultations the allegation was shown to be true, and the man was compensated.

This allegation was investigated and denied by Samuels and Codd ( see below ), but the Minister did acknowledge that ASIS maintained files.

From Hell takes as its premise Stephen Knight's theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were part of a conspiracy to conceal the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, slightly modified: the involvement of Walter Sickert is reduced, and Knight's allegation that the child's mother was a Catholic has been dropped.

The charges were reiterated by FrontPage Magazine and the allegation concerning Williams receiving UN cash was picked up by Brit Hume and the Fox News Channel.

Aeschines, Demosthenes ' greatest political rival, maintained that his mother Kleoboule was a Scythian by blood — an allegation disputed by some modern scholars.

This act also served to counteract the allegation, commonly and popularly expressed, that the PCI was protecting leftist terrorists, in the harshest years of terrorism in Italy.

The only evidence to which the prosecution could point in support of this allegation was the evidence of Mr Martins that he felt abused and humiliated, that he had been threatened with further violence, and that he was very frightened.

There was no medical or psychiatric evidence to support the allegation.

The witness whom Essex expected to confirm this allegation, his uncle William Knollys, was called and admitted there had once been read in Cecil's presence a book treating such matters ( possibly either The book of succession supposedly by an otherwise unknown R. Doleman but probably really by Robert Persons or A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England explicitly mentioned to be by Parsons, in which a Catholic successor friendly to Spain was favored ).

Within one month, third party investigators including representatives of the US Department of State, said that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegation.

King denied the allegation.

Clemens ' attorney Rusty Hardin denied the affair and also stated that Clemens would be bringing a defamation suit regarding this allegation.

The INLA claimed that the man was involved in drug dealing although the injured man and his family denied the allegation.

This allegation has however, been denied by Hitler's architect and friend Albert Speer.

While the Gottis were on vacation in Florida at the time, John Gotti is still presumed to have ordered the killing, an allegation considered probable by John, Jr., while denied by his daughter Victoria.

This matches an allegation made in 2006 by the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, though it is denied by officials in Pakistan.

This money was allegedly factored into the net profit and given to Herndon before accounting was completed, an allegation Herndon has denied.

Merrino denied the allegation.

On this occasion, he denied any wrongdoing and rejected the allegation against him.

The worker claimed that due to reduced maintenance checks, some trains were in use with defective brakes, an allegation strongly denied by the company, which said it would " never compromise on safety ".

The Communications Minister of Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma, denied the allegation of persecution of homosexuals.

Circumstantial evidence suggests that he abducted and killed eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr of Tacoma in 1961 when he was 14, an allegation he denied repeatedly.

Haughey angrily denied the charge, though Lenihan, in his subsequently published account of the affair, noted that Haughey had denied " insulting " the officer, whereas the allegation was that he had " threatened " him.

He denied the allegation.

While this allegation was repeatedly disproved – even the Academy officially denied it – Tomei called the story " extremely hurtful.

" The duchess never revealed the identity of the " headless man ," and Fairbanks denied the allegation to his grave.

The allegation was strongly denied by the minister.

When this allegation became public following an unauthorised disclosure, Scotland Yard issued a statement claiming that the officer alleged to have believed this " has categorically denied this in his interview with, and statement to, the IPCC investigators ".

The court denied an allegation that Russia misused legal procedures to dismantle Yukos despite the court's nine-judge panel finding that Russia violated three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Pampers denied the allegation and stated that only two complaints had been received for every one million diapers sold.

Jones has denied this allegation, as did IBM in a court filing.

His son Aidar Akayev and his daughter Bermet Akayeva were candidates in the 2005 legislative election, and it was widely suspected that he was going to retain either de facto power by arranging for the election of a close supporter or relative, or perhaps even by abrogation of the term limit provision in the constitution and remaining in power personally, an allegation which he strongly denied.