Sentence examples for being misused as from inspiring English sources

It tweeted: "Please be aware poppers are being misused as shots.

"A lot of wartime propaganda endures to this day, not least the German allegation that the Britannic was being misused as a troop transporter when she went down," said Mills.

Despite debt-fuelled investment of roughly $40 billion a year, production has flatlined at around 2m barrels a day (b/d) in the past three years.Most damaging, says Adriano Pires, an energy consultant in Rio de Janeiro, "Petrobras is being misused as a tool of macroeconomic as well as industrial policy".

The primary issue, in TDWP, is its narrator's resentment, as a lowly assistant, at having to pick up coats and being misused as a fetcher of endless snacks and coffees, "Starbucks only, tall latte, two raw sugars", for her impossibly scary boss.

It has been published to coincide with a related report released earlier on Thursday by Professor Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, which warned that the technology was being misused as a form of "global policing".

As smart devices increasingly invade our homes, we must simply blindly trust that the companies building the products have not made any security missteps and have built adequate safeguards to prevent them from being misused as surveillance devices.

Many critics say it would be misused, as was its predecessor, by an often corrupt, politicized police force to harass and jail political dissenters, journalists and minorities, particularly Muslims.

So we've outlined here a handful of common disastrous scenarios in which one (or both) of these social networks was misused, as well as the best way to prevent or remedy the problem.

As for the misapplication of high-tech procedures in a gimmicky way by unimaginative chefs, Dr. Myhrvold — a multimillionaire inventor and the former chief technology officer at Microsoft — said new techniques would "be misused, yes, but old techniques have been misused as well".

But the computing power that gives cyber-defenders super-tools to detect attacks can be misused, as well.

You know there are ways they can be misused as well as used, and this isn't new," Bezos told Wired25.