The phrase "abusive exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where an activity or practice is conducted in a harmful or exploitative manner.
Example: "The coach's methods were deemed an abusive exercise of power, leading to a toxic environment for the athletes."
Alternatives: "exploitative practice" or "harmful use".
Only the abusive exercise of such market power should be penalized, the authority said.
"Only the abusive exercise of such market power could be sanctioned," the anti-trust regulator said.
Before that was the Grand Remonstrance of 1641, and before that was the Petition of Right of 1628, each crystallizing in the political realm popular disquiet in response to direct experiences of the abusive exercise of power -- not ideological dissatisfaction.
"These arrests are purely subjective and therefore prone to the abusive exercise of officer discretion," Charles Samuelson, executive director of the ACLU's Minnesota affiliate, said in a statement that accompanied the Minneapolis report.
In either case, we want, indeed need, a heterogeneous, overlapping and cross-checking government to limit the possibility of myopic or abusive exercises of state power.
It was the second time the playwright had seen his work pulled, and he reacted with a strongly critical open letter, calling the move "the abusive use of absolutist power wielded in the cruel exercise of vile censorship..
As consumer lending has permeated American life, violent partners have begun using debt as a means of exercising abusive control, making the consumer credit system an unknowing party to domestic violence.
A cacique is a person who exercises abusive power over a community or group.
I know this was a needless war of choice, but at the same time I just can't fully grasp the abusive political authority exercised by our government.
An abusive partner may also exercise control over your money, where you go, what you wear and whom you spend time with.
Doctors use abusive language to their patients.
