The phrase "abuse spread" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the dissemination or increase of abusive behavior or language, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The report highlighted how the abuse spread rapidly through social media platforms, affecting countless individuals."
Alternatives: "spread of abuse" or "abuse proliferation".
Ideas intended to help Americans resist abuse spread to Americans who used them to perpetrate abuse.
But through ordinary e-mail and electronic mailing lists, political news, gossip, rumour and vitriolic abuse spread at lightning speed.
A teenage girl band in Kashmir this month hung up its guitars after the Grand Mufti, the highest-ranking clergyman, called its members "unislamic", and vitriolic abuse spread online.In November police arrested a woman in Maharashtra state for grumbling, on Facebook, that Mumbai had been shut for the funeral of Bal Thackery, a thuggish, hard-right Hindu politician.
As reports of OxyContin abuse spread early this year, the drug's manufacturer, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., began a national campaign to convince the public that it was doing everything possible to combat the problem and to make sure that only patients with legitimate needs got the drug.
The press may be way too eager to praise the cops, but the rise of mass media has helped countless videos of police abuse spread and gain attention.
As any Wall Street investment banker will tell you, if you let abuses spread to the point where they are pretty much standard practice, regulators will inevitably go for the jugular when they find you out.
Ms. Napolitano has treated the sheriff gingerly through the years, even as reports of his abuses spread and as the sheriff defied any suggestion that there were limits to his power to harass Latino immigrants.
It should hasten to adopt the Cardozo report's recommendations, including no home raids except as a last resort to catch dangerous fugitives; no raids without judicial warrants; videotaping of agents in action, and retraining them on procedures; beginning an inspector general's investigation to see how far the abuses spread.
Alcohol and drug abuse is spread through every layer of society.
In 2010, as the ripples from the sexual abuse scandal spread across Europe, some suggested that Benedict should resign.
