I have on file cases of Britons recently imprisoned for crimes as relatively mild as abusive tweeting, poll-rigging, Boat Race obstructing, cathedral desecrating, job-application falsifying, expenses fiddling, urinatingon a war memorial, speeding-point switching, licence fee non-paying, and googling in court.
Those people who have cooperated with elections have received abusive phonecalls, physical threats and in some cases have even been kidnapped.
It said: "My parents were abusive in every way imaginable − sexually, physically and emotionally.
Cowell wouldn't be bothered by the string of abusive reviews; he'd be used to that.
And in any case, this man is using "sectioned" as a shorthand for wanting to stay in hospital – to be anywhere, in fact, other than his flat, with its bags of rubbish and abusive neighbours.
He had a very abusive and difficult relationship with his dad, he's going through a divorce, he's at the lowest ebb you could possibly find someone, he's kipping on friends' carpets, and yet if he can win a game of football, that's really what he was put on this earth to do.
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There is a satisfying immediacy in the saving of lives, the patching up of the bumped and bruised, even in the abusive, drunken chaos of a Saturday night waiting room.
There were four security officers in the room, cursing me and being verbally abusive.
Despite two years of revelations about abusive police spying, the British government has yet to launch a full public inquiry.
Arms sales like these do not just provide military support for abusive regimes, they also send a clear sign of political support".
