Sentence examples for abuse representative from inspiring English sources

"We have a set of rules in place that will allow the most productive parts of the free market economy, and particularly the financial system, to play the role they should play, but with much less chance of abuse," Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and a main architect of the measure, said after the vote.

"I met with numerous men, women and children - as well as with activist groups - who had suffered serious unconscionable abuses," Representative Schakowsky wrote in an e-mail.

During arbitration proceedings against employees accused of abuse, a representative of the abused vulnerable person should also be present, the report suggests.

"We are here one week from the hour" of the abuse, said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat who represents the 14th District in Manhattan.

"The G.A.O. has brought to light a disturbing pattern of abuse," said Representative Judy Biggert, Republican of Illinois.

"The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse," said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.

(Much as one early library supporter, Marc Rich's ex-wife, Denise, had an agenda with the last one). "The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse," said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.

It is a scale of abuse that Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House subcommittee leading the inquiry, said far exceeded even his worst fears, despite months of accumulating evidence that the fraud-prevention system at the Federal Emergency Management Agency was woefully inadequate.

"Never in all of my years in Congress have I seen such a startling and damaging series of partisan abuses," said Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the panel's ranking Democrat.

Witnesses are supposedly called to elicit information in the furtherance of those duties and responsibilities, but all too often the hearings are held to embarrass the opposition and abuse its representatives.

While our sample of child sexual abuse cases is representative of Dutch court proceedings on sexual crimes, it is likely not representative of all occurrences of child sexual abuse.