Sentence examples for abusive effort from inspiring English sources

Katz and Wilpon and their lawyers have angrily dismissed the trustee's claims and accusations, calling them an abusive effort to force them to pay hundreds of millions to settle the suit when they did nothing wrong.

What is impossible is for any reasonable person to continue denying that Republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential campaign.

In an abusive situation, efforts to be more polite and respectful may rock the boat and escalate the abuse.

Halliburton called the lawsuit abusive and an effort to smear the company and extort money from its shareholders.

Prisons, where the balance of power is so unequal, tend to be brutal and abusive places unless great effort is made to control the guards' base impulses, he said.

A June 23 , 2009report from Al Jazeera (English) by Josh Rushing, "Fault Lines - Religion in the Military", expertly covers a topic the US media has been reluctant to address: an aggressive effort, often abusive, coercive and even illegal, to advance a heavily sectarian, supremacist form of Christianity in the United States military.

But despite all its efforts the abusive monster has clearly not been magicked away.

Some resented a perceived onus on women to resolve problems rather than zero tolerance for men's abusive behaviour and proactive efforts to get functional interventions in place.

Costolo said efforts to discourage abusive language included tripling the size of its abuse reporting team, allowing third parties to report abuse of others and making it harder for blocked users to reopen accounts.

WALL STREET JOURNAL   A Renewed Focus on a Financial Crisis Crackdown  |  Despite skepticism about a new effort to investigate abusive practices that led to the financial crisis, there is at least a chance we will see the government take a more aggressive stance in pursuing civil charges, according to White Collar Watch.

In discussing the police, Mayor Luken said critics might not realize that the use of force and firing of shots had been decreasing, while the city's effort to fire abusive officers had been foiled at times by what the mayor called an "outrageous" arbitration process.