Sentence examples for amount to abuse from inspiring English sources

She says the pardons amount to "abuse of presidential power".

And I am not mentioning the conditions of the submission of the case which, in the opinion of several jurists, could amount to abuse of procedure.

He said the chaining and hooking amounts to abuse.

The school denied that the use of restraint, which it said all staff members were trained to use, amounted to abuse.

He said he saw Officer Kern press his baton into Mr. Mineo's buttocks, but also that he did not think it amounted to abuse.

"You have to be clear about what you're trying to deter," he said, insisting that "clear breaches" that amounted to "abuse" would still result in bans of sufficient length to ensure that jockeys would be deterred.

Staff members from the G4S security group punched and slapped children in a series of incidents amounting to abuse and mistreatment of the young people in their charge, it has been claimed.

The clinical definition of postpartum depression is a "medical complication of childbirth," but this doesn't take into account women's emotional lives, and the fact that the way our culture treats some new mothers amounts to abuse.

The judge found that nothing in the petition was credible or amounted to abuse or threats of abuse.

It is therefore unclear when palliative sedation at the end of life amounts to abuse and why.

It is therefore unclear what kind of palliative sedation at the end of life amounts to abuse and why.