Sentence examples for abuse for example from inspiring English sources

When the latter-day "Star Wars" movies are likened to child abuse, for example.

Experts know that victims of child abuse, for example, are more likely to abuse their own children.

But some hoteliers and others in the hospitality trade claim the site is open to abuse, for example from rivals keen to attack an establishment's reputation.

Even when services are offered, they usually take aim at immediate risks — substance abuse, for example, or domestic violence — not abiding problems like poverty or poor social support.

His ad hoc gestures and comments can feel like progress, but in other areas – in confronting institutional child abuse, for example, or tackling financial reform – he can seem wanting.

When, in the 18th century, women were allowed to speak on their own behalves against their spouses when accusing them of abuse, for example, the press was seen as a way of ensuring the vindication of their rights.

No doubt the American government operates with a double standard when dealing with autocratic regimes, tolerating Saudi abuses of human rights while condemning Cuban abuses, for example.

That trust can be abused, for example by a person or family hiding an illness or secretly allowing an infected visitor into the community.

The third attacked religious abuses; for example, the treasury of the merits of the saints was denied by implication in the assertion that the treasury of the church was the gospel.

The second focused attention on doctrinal abuses; for example, Luther argued that the pope had no jurisdiction over purgatory and if he did, he should empty the place free of charge.

The first concerned financial abuses; for example, if the pope realized the poverty of the German people, he would rather that St. Peter's lay in ashes than that it should be built out of the "skin, flesh, and bones of his sheep".