Sentence examples for administration abuses from inspiring English sources

Conservative Republicans leery of what they see as Obama administration abuses of power teamed up with liberal Democrats long opposed to intrusive intelligence programs.

Human rights advocates in Haiti and abroad say they will not stand by if the Latortue administration abuses its own power.

The California congressman has begged his Republican colleagues to issue subpoenas to investigate Bush administration abuses and corruption allegations, but his entreaties have fallen on deaf ears.

But in spite of all the recent news, some in Washington still need to be sold on the idea of creating a truth commission to investigate Bush-Cheney administration abuses.

Deportations continue under President Obama's administration, abuses at the border by CBP officers have been exposed, and there is still no sign of Congress moving on comprehensive immigration reform.

ANCHORAGE — Todd Palin, the husband of the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, has refused to testify in a legislative inquiry into whether Ms. Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator, a spokesman said Thursday.

PAGE A13 TODD PALIN REFUSED TO TESITIFY Todd Palin, the husband of the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, has refused to testify in a legislative inquiry into whether Ms. Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator, a spokesman said.

"What he objected to was the way that the Bush administration abused them," Mr. Earnest said.

In a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Defense Department, Mr. Díaz wrote that the Bloomberg administration abused the process that the federal government set up to find productive uses for sites that are no longer necessary for military purposes.

He said it was necessary to be "vigilant against some future administration abusing" the powers and pointed out that "all kinds of curious public bodies" would be able to get access to huge amounts of extra information.

Given the cloud of doubt hanging over the doctrine — for 57 years, really, since the Supreme Court established it and for the past decade, especially, because the Bush administration abused it to conceal torture — it's time for the Obama administration to air these differences and explain the full extent of its thinking.