Sentence examples for abusing public from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Tiberi was first convicted of abusing public funds, but the verdict was set aside on a technicality.

All this sleaze not only raised questions about whether the Clintons and Mr Gore were abusing public property and selling access to foreigners.

Judge Dominique Pauthe was unmoved, however, and found Chirac guilty as charged of embezzling public funds, abusing public trust and an illegal conflict of interests.

The trial of former ATO assistant commissioner Michael Cranston, charged with abusing public office over his son's alleged multimillion dollar tax fraud, starts in Sydney.

She urged Spain's medical authorities to widen the ban on Fuentes who, despite abusing public health laws, can still see patients outside the sports world.

Abusing public funds to build private mansions was once the preserve of kleptocrats elsewhere in Africa, such as Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo or Jean-Bédel Bokassa in the Central African Republic.

In some states illegal aliens abuse public assistance programs.

On the contrary, there has been the drip-drip of unedifying disclosures about the way MPs abuse public money and their offices.

(The New York Democrat has defended himself -- plus ?change -- by arguing that he did not abuse public resources in his misdeeds).

The government wants to respond to public concerns about foreigners "who abuse public services" by introducing tough new laws - ministers' best way of saying "we get it".

"Those who have abused public trust often are able to hide behind all of this bureaucracy," the team explains on the Kickstarter page.