Sentence examples for abusive of power from inspiring English sources

"That's almost abusive of power," he told me.

"It is very unfortunate that this decision comes on the eve of the Pope's visit to Mexico when the Legionaries have been identified by society as abusive of power and money and, above all, children," Barranco said.

He railed against injustice and abusive forms of power.

Bullying, however, is characterized by the abusive use of power of an individual or group that intentionally and repeatedly attacks, excludes or humiliates others (Gini et al. 2011; Salmivalli, 2010).

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 abusive displays of power are especially hard for Maria, who -- like the majority of the other mothers in this detention center -- has experienced severe domestic and sexual violence.

5 8 The vast majority of IPV treatment programmes are primarily based on an understanding of violence as an abusive form of power and control, emphasising cultural and patriarchal conditions in regard to aetiology and interventions.

Tymoshenko was charged with abuse of power and embezzlement, as the court found the deal anti-economic for the country and abusive.

One of the more pronounced ways that this shows up is in gaslighting, defined as "an extremely effective form of emotional abuse that causes a [survivor] to question their own feelings, instincts, and sanity, which gives the abusive partner a lot of power (and we know that abuse is about power and control)." I've seen this in myself and in the relationships of men in my life in many ways.

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, responded by accusing Republicans of engaging in "a shameful display of abusive power" in pushing the issue.

Countering Sade, Beauvoir and Halimi show that the truth of torture lies in the unjustifiable politics of abusive power.