The phrase "abuse rather than a" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in a comparison or contrast where you are discussing two different actions or behaviors, but it needs to be part of a complete sentence.
Example: "We should focus on prevention of harm and support, promoting understanding and healing, rather than a culture of abuse."
Alternatives: "mistreatment instead of a" or "harm rather than a".
My effete, urban sensibilities would consider that child abuse, rather than a necessary rite of passage.
The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, broke his silence yesterday, insisting it was a straightforward conviction for racial abuse rather than a matter of club rivalry and that both sides should move on.
Results: When patients had a substance abuse rather than a psychiatric problem, objective demand was higher: program policies had higher requirements for functioning and more resident control; programs offered fewer health-treatment services; and the physical design provided fewer safety features and social recreational aids.
Earlier in the day they recalled Mitchell Dunn, a psychiatrist who testified last week, to return to the stand to rebutt the prosecution's argument that the 27-year-old deliberately exaggerated symptoms that were in any case a result of drug abuse rather than a serious underlying condition.
The drug was identified as a "drug of abuse" rather than a performance-enhancing drug.
At the moment the commission looks more like an apologist for abuse rather than an advocate for the abused.
Duterte's shift reflects his anger at American criticism of human rights abuses rather than a deep strategic rethink.
Teena's mother, JoAnn Brandon, argued that her child's transgenderism was a defense mechanism that was developed in response to childhood sexual abuse, rather than being an expression of Teena's gendered sense of self: "She pretended she was a man so no other man could touch her".
It's he who tells the Spotlight investigators to go for the big picture of abuse rather than settle for a few individual exposures.
Interviews with investigators involved in the Europol operation suggest that most of those arrested so far have been people suspected of downloading and exchanging illegal images of child abuse rather than abusing children themselves.
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