Sentence examples for close to abused from inspiring English sources

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, said on "This Week" on ABC that "based on the fact there's 30,000 of these letters, which is a stunner to me, it appears to me that this is, if not abused, being close to abused".

This attack on Mr Pickles comes after Mr Davey told his party conference he has fought an "insurgent battle" over green energy against his coalition partner, who he accused of coming close to "abusing ministerial power".

That doesn't even come close to abuse.

It is messy and even frightening to be so close to abuse and to realise that the systems and resources we rely on to protect those affected are sketchy and unreliable if they exist at all.

Aim of this study is to confirm our hypothesis that allele A of the examined BDNF polymorphism interfere with MOH, seeking for clinical and psychiatric differences between the two groups, mainly in the monthly drug consumption, that is both the clinical hallmark of disease, and the feature closest to abuse disorder.

Many programmes can be traced back to Straight, Incorporated, Nancy Reagan and George Bush Sr's favourite anti-drug programme that was closed due to abuse lawsuits in the early 90s.

Many programs can be traced back to Straight, Incorporated, Nancy Reagan and George Bush Sr.'s favorite anti-drug program that was closed due to abuse lawsuits in the early 90s.

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, for example, found that 67percentt of women sent to prison in 2005 for killing someone close to them were abused by that person. .

One study by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision found that 67percentt of women sent to prison in 2005 for killing someone close to them were abused by that person.

One of the alleged victims had testified that she had come into a hotel room where Sandusky had him in the bathroom, and come close to seeing abuse.

A comfortable middle-class upbringing south of Paris was presented as something close to child abuse; yet her first sculpture show, in New York in 1949 after she had married and left, was of tall, sad balsa-wood figures that represented "homesickness".