Sentence examples for constituted an abuse from inspiring English sources

In January, the commission decided that the bundling constituted an abuse of Microsoft's market position.

John Turner, 44, Mr. Turner's brother, said after the hearing that his brother's arrest constituted an "abuse of power".

Whether this deal constituted an abuse of discretion by township officials is for Judge Francis J. Orlando Jr. of the State Superior Court to decide.

In addition, Mr. Stolar wrote, the subpoena was overbroad, was issued for an improper purpose and constituted an abuse of the court process.

Offering discounts and rebates is common in many industries, so the case hinged on whether Intel attached conditions to such rebates that constituted an abuse of its market position.

We thought that those actions constituted an abuse of process by a previous government".

ExxonMobil therefore seeks a declaration that the CID violates ExxonMobil's rights under Article One of the United States Constitution; the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution; Sections Eight, Nine, and Nineteen of Article One of the Texas Constitution; and constitutes an abuse of process under the common law.

They said the evidence before Rares did not warrant the adverse finding said to constitute an abuse of the court's process.

Because government officials must routinely make subjective decisions, courts have been vague in their descriptions of what constitutes an abuse of discretion.

"Our preliminary view is that in its general search results, Google artificially favours its own company's shopping service and that this constitutes an abuse".

This has prompted an online backlash as to whether such high-profile uses constitute an abuse of crowdfunding's tradition of helping the little guy.