Sentence examples for abused upon from inspiring English sources

PB 11.48am: Sepp Blatter says Fifa will investigate claims that North Korea's players were abused upon their return home following the World Cup.

Where people such as the Bouazizis are looked down upon, abused.

Moreover, at the time of writing, Hamas cynically abused an agreed upon humanitarian ceasefire to launch rockets, mortars and a suicide bomber so that they could abduct an Israeli soldier.

"As more and more people are being exposed and more and more women are being able to come up and say they were abused or preyed upon, I feel that it's kind of in the male DNA, that if somebody walks in the room, your first thought is, 'Do I want to fuck her?' Honestly speaking," she said.

Bourgeois' Femme Maison paintings scream that women are put upon, jailed, abused and patronised.

The French investigation is said to concern "the rape of minors under 15 years old by persons who had abused the authority conferred upon them by their roles, and complicity in this crime".

They were overworked, abused and looked down upon as inferior beings.

Women's rights are still being infringed upon and abused in a similar way in the home, the workplace and the schoolyard.

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the number of Americans who abused or were dependent upon pain relievers increased from 1.6 to 1.8 million between 2006 and 2011 [ 5, 6].

And never with an intention to abuse the agreed-upon rules of the game or destroy the pure joy of play".

They were unaware of the "corrosive and cumulative effect of racist abuse upon a black patient".