The phrase "abusive methods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe harmful or cruel techniques or practices, often in contexts related to behavior, treatment, or practices that inflict harm on individuals or groups.
Example: "The investigation revealed that the organization employed abusive methods to control its employees, leading to widespread dissatisfaction and fear."
Alternatives: "harmful practices" or "cruel techniques".
In 2012, five large US banks agreed to pay $25bn to settle charges over abusive methods to foreclose on homeowners.
Around Christmas Eve of 1984, the Russian-born co-founder of the sect, Hugo Baar, had tired of Mr. Schaefer's abusive methods and fled the colony.
In America Barack Obama moved quickly to ban the most abusive methods of interrogation and promised to shut the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay.
But the WACD says that some use abusive methods, such as tying addicts up.The economic burden posed by the rise in addiction is heavy.
In fact, leading Senate Republicans, including John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have repeatedly described waterboarding and other abusive methods as torture, and have been among the most persistent Congressional opponents of these practices.
In a similar statement issued Tuesday, 15 veteran interrogators, retired from the military, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the C.I.A., declared torture and other abusive methods "ineffective and counterproductive".
Instead, the report shows, in all twenty cases most widely cited by the C.I.A. as evidence that abusive interrogation methods were necessary, the same information could have been obtained, and frequently was obtained, through non-coercive methods.
Kleinman is also featured in the Senate committee report, notably for blowing the whistle on the abusive interrogation methods detainees in Iraq were subjected to.
Earlier this month, the American Bar Association condemned "the widespread pattern of abusive detention methods... [which] feed terrorism by painting the US as an arrogant nation above the law".
The CIA director, George Tenet: "Authorised and oversaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, stress positions, light and noise bombardment, sleep deprivation, and other abusive interrogation methods, as well as the CIA rendition program".
The abusive interrogation methods reverse-engineered from the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape torture-resistance program cause enormous psychological harm ranging from psychosis and suicidal ideation to post-traumatic stress disorder.
