If she's threatening to bring public charges, she'll do it.

Individuals who have physical or mental ailments along with pregnant women are most likely to be proposed as a public charge.

Because he has kept a low profile, there are no public charges against him.

The Spanish would not have risked public charges against such a prominent figure.

The author seldom cares very deeply for his offspring once it is turned over to the public charge.

But have you considered the consequences if public charge is made?

The government operated places that tried to find work for men so they wouldn't become public charges.

The letters will remain sealed unless there are public charges of collaboration, he said.

The sponsors must prove that they have enough money to prevent an immigrant from becoming a "public charge."

Under current law, sponsors of immigrants promise that anyone they bring into the country will not become a "public charge."