Sentence examples for an abuse that from inspiring English sources

He said he could not go into details, but details are precisely what is needed to explain and correct an abuse that should never have begun.

"It is an abuse that takes its toll," said Camille Rivera of the South Bronx, who said she paid about $20 a month in A.T.M. fees.

Some migrant workers claim to have been deceived and appear to have been trafficked on to trawlers for labour exploitation, an abuse that would be a form of modern slavery.

In many cases, sloppy procedures and an apparent bias in favor of fellow officers combine to guarantee that even the most brutal police avoid punishment for serious violations until committing an abuse that is so flagrant, so unavoidably embarrassing, that it cannot be ignored.

Armando cruises the bus station where young men hang out, on the lookout for one to come home with him, where he pays handsomely for a restrained activity that hints heartbreakingly at an abuse that belongs to the distant past of Armando's childhood, and those toxically potent memories are yet another clue to the title.

The policy of internment, officially used in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1975 and responsible for detaining 1,981 people, all but 107 of whom were Roman Catholics, was widely viewed as an abuse that ended up creating more anti-British Irish republicans.

Four police officers accused of failing to stop a campaign of abuse that drove a mother to kill herself and her disabled daughter have been cleared of misconduct.

It has produced a level of abuse that would shatter a more fragile ego.

Verbal abuse from a customer was a "level one"; physical abuse a "level two"; physical abuse that resulted in hospitalisation a "level three".

Phencyclidine (PCP) is a drug of abuse that has rewarding and dysphoric effects in humans.

There was "a climate for abuse" that did not exist in other agencies, she said.