Sentence examples for abuse of weakness from inspiring English sources
In return, her daughter, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, 57, has agreed to drop a legal case against Mr Banier for "abuse of weakness" and to abandon her efforts to make her mother a ward of court.
After evincing the struggles of a film director who, having suffered a stroke, allows a con man into her life in Abus de faiblesse (2013; Abuse of Weakness), Huppert played a farmer's wife who has a flirtation with a younger man in La ritournelle (2014; Paris Follies).
Last month it emerged that Ms Bettencourt Meyers had filed an "abuse of weakness" complaint against a male friend of her mother's, to whom Ms Bettencourt had given money and gifts worth as much as €1 billion ($1.3 billion), according to the French press.
Films in competition include Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness, Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox and Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin.
The questions discussed at the National Assembly and in the Senate were oriented around five poles: supervision of the training of psychotherapists; control of their exercise; recognition of the skills of those professionals who are neither psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychoanalyst, and who train outside universities; control of abuse of weakness; and sect movements.
However, the charges -- termed an abuse of weakness --were maintainEric WoerthEric Woerth, a former government minister who was Sarkozy's treasurer in the 2007 campaign; Bettencourt's former companion, the society photographer François-Marie Banier; her lawyer, Pascal Wilhelm; her financial advisor, Patrice de Maistre and six others.
At the time, the president's wife, former supermodel Carla Bruni, added: "It's unimaginable that [Sarkozy] could abuse the weakness of a lady who is the age of his mother".
On Wednesday the Union of Russian Journalists called on colleagues and viewers to oppose the decision, calling it an abuse of "the well-known weakness of the Russian court system and its subservience to outside pressure".
That means any sign of weakness, especially taking abuse from one's opponent without hitting back, unsettles us in ways we may not even realise.
The interlocking detail is fascinating — the righteous abuse of power, the vicious preying on weakness and loyalty, the overwhelming dead-gray bleakness of a society under wraps.
It would also send a message of weakness to the credit card industry and could open the door to a new round of abuses.
