The phrase "abuses spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the dissemination or increase of abusive behaviors or actions in a particular context.
Example: "In environments where oversight is lacking, abuses spread quickly and can become normalized."
Alternatives: "abuses proliferate" or "abuses escalate".
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.
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.
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.
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.
The report raised the question of whether abuses had spread further than has been uncovered so far.
Since the elections, human rights abuses have spread with security forces killing more than 25 civilians.
