Sentence examples for abusive tactic from inspiring English sources

A common abusive tactic is to make love conditional based on something that you do.

Another abusive tactic is to threaten the withdrawal of love to get a desired behavior; for example, "If you don't do ____, I won't love you anymore".. Abusers may also play on your own insecurities to convince you to obey them, such as telling you that "nobody will love you the way I do" or "nobody will want you if I leave you".

Beyond reforming abusive tactics, though, are other issues of police staffing and deployment.

"China wants this treaty to create a veneer of legality for fundamentally abusive tactics.

In some cases, the authorities have simply adjusted, rather than ended, their abusive tactics, advocates say, and unrest has continued.

Because collectors cannot sue on old debt, he said, they are more likely to resort to abusive tactics.

Instead, it came out swinging, refusing to cut a deal and accusing prosecutors of high-handed, abusive tactics.

Lesser remedies like orders to monopoly companies to cease abusive tactics have proved difficult to police, he said.

The ultimate outcomes of these cases are uncertain, but Mr. Klein deserves credit for bringing potentially abusive tactics by dominant firms under judicial review.

Not only have the government's heavy-handed and abusive tactics failed to repress political opposition, they have also failed to stamp out the armed insurgency.

But how can I maintain that optimism after Vietnam, after the murder of so many who fought for civil rights, after the Red scare and after the abusive tactics planned by government today?