Sentence examples for by the abusive from inspiring English sources

Hence, when answering the Chinese AAS, some may have given a (false) negative answer to physical abuse if no injury was caused by the abusive act.

At the salon, we're appalled by the abusive behavior they endure.

Many disabled people can relate how damaged they have been by the abusive use of the word.

Others were unsettled by the health threat posed by men engaged in this practice -- and by the abusive way they spoke of women.

Waitress follows the travails of Jenna (played by TV star Keri Russell), who finds herself pregnant by the abusive husband she has been saving up money to leave.

This was when Shopsin's was still in Greenwich Village and felt like a crazed version of the general store it had once been; over the stack of plain pancakes that I ordered without knowing any better, I tried not to be too alarmed by the abusive banter in the kitchen between Shopsin and one of his sons — which sounded, to the uninitiated, like a job for 911.

Then I summoned Louie, played by Danny DeVito, the abusive dispatcher, and considered how much easier our search would be if we were interacting with Louie, how much more humane — or at least human — his nastiness was than this Kafkaesque chain of politely ineffectual customer reps.

In doing so, the child seeks to shed feelings of fear and vulnerability by adopting the abusive parent's attributes.

Writer-director Jean Becker keeps it simple: no dramatic turns, small but revealing flashbacks to Germain's life with his mother (including the time she stood up for him and herself with a casual lover by sticking the abusive guy in the thigh with a pitchfork).

Shah has spoken openly about her experiences, which included being emotionally blackmailed by her mother and the abusive nature of the marriage.

Each person — a chorus girl, a wig maker and a strong man among them — told part of a story about a failed attempt at revolution by the employees of the abusive owner of a music hall.