Sentence examples for abusive instrument from inspiring English sources

I have thought about the extent to which British history would have been the poorer had the governments of the day had such an abusive instrument at their disposal.

Instruments designed to diagnose abusive caregivers such as the Child Abuse Potential Inventory [ 45], the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (IPSCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool-Parent [ 46] measure these potential abusive behaviors of caregiver.

The CFTC protects market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to sales of these instruments.

To criticize a housing secretary for not being able to anticipate that Wall Street investment banks would devise complex financial structures whose profitability depended solely on abusive, faulty loans five years before such instruments existed is absurd.

Republican members opposed to the agency's powers repeatedly asked Ms. Warren if there were credit instruments or practices, like payday lending, that she would seek to ban as abusive or unfair under the agency's new authority.

To examine the total and domain-specific prevalence of verbally and physically abusive, socially inappropriate, and care-resistive behaviors according to the Minimum Data Set (MDS) compared with research instruments in nursing home residents with severe dementia.

This instrument measures incidences of sexual violence since birth up to the age of 18. Questions ask about abusive sexual acts involving some degree of physical contact (fondling or sexual – vaginal, anal, or oral – relationship imposed by threats or use of force) and perpetrated by immediate family members, school peers/personnel, short/long-term romantic acquaintances, or strangers.

Abusive bosses.

Abusive tweets poured forth.

Are these shows abusive?

"Even abusive.