Sentence examples for at abusive from inspiring English sources
A Design of Experiments (DoE) approach was used to characterise the effects of dry machining at abusive conditions on the austenitic stainless steel AISI 316L.
Dreyer's impious, anarchic drama, a cry of rage at abusive authority — whether political, familial, religious, or moral — celebrates erotic love as the natural order of things.
The agency likely will follow its rule with others aimed squarely at abusive behavior by debt collectors, prepaid credit cards, and bank overdraft fees.
For those who already drink at abusive levels, the new program can help them acknowledge their problem and seek treatment earlier, before they suffer irreversible medical and social problems like liver or brain disease, legal difficulties, job loss or divorce.
Harvey Golub, the chief executive of American Express, wrote to the Treasury Department last month that the main concern of the Business Roundtable, which represents the country's largest corporations, "is to ensure that any action aimed at abusive corporate tax shelters does not impede ordinary business transactions".
The bill's provisions "are all targeted at abusive practices, and we recognize that," Vaughn says, but "universities saw unintended consequences that would sweep in legitimate behaviors".
The repressive and, at times, abusive atmosphere at home engendered in him the resilience, endurance, and resourcefulness which would enable him to carry out his daring plan.
In Afghanistan, where I have lived for most of the past decade, frustrations at an abusive government and at the apparent role of international forces in propping it up have been growing for years.
The Department of Homeland Security, and our government at large, ought to look at the abusive practices happening in detention centers and close them down.
"This victory could open the floodgates of pent up worker frustration at the abusive treatment, low pay, and lousy benefits at Wal-Mart," said then-UFCW President Doug Dority.
A nominally civilized society such as ours can only recoil in horror at any news of a child's death at the abusive hands of an adult.
