Sentence examples for abuse the idea from inspiring English sources

Two new novels deal intelligently with the implications of the recent crisis, and are especially acute about the moral alienation of greed, and about how hungry amoralists might use and abuse the idea of the family in order to nourish their ruthlessness.

From good nutrition to avoiding substance abuse, the idea is to intervene before problems arise.

It was only later that I could see how Disney had despoiled beautiful stories and had abused the idea of animation.

Value judgments about both personal and corporate borrowing and lending abound in this time of tight credit: who deserves to borrow and on what terms, who abused the idea of debt and why.

"They abuse the law.

Never abuse the Chao.

Never abuse the dog.

Never abuse the stripper.

I found the recent allegations particularly shocking, as my film is meant to speak to victims of abuse and the idea that the effects of abuse never really go away".

Is abusing the people that make your device compelling a good idea?

He proposed to have an elected President and elected Senators who would serve for life, contingent upon "good behavior" and subject to removal for corruption or abuse; this idea contributed later to the hostile view of Hamilton as a monarchist sympathizer, held by James Madison.