Sentence examples for covert abuse from inspiring English sources

Re "Whether to Kill Those Who Killed as Youths" (front page, Aug. 22): As a psychologist who worked extensively with delinquents for many years, I witnessed the cumulative effects of both overt abuse and covert abuse or neglect.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and other experts performed a forensic autopsy on the 2004 election and pronounced their collective diagnosis -- the American electoral process was deeply traumatized, chronically dysfunctional and susceptible to covert abuse by computerized criminals.

Covert substance abuse?

Kort says that gay people suffer "covert cultural sexual abuse".

He was particularly adept at the recognition of covert drug and alcohol abuse.

The problem in investment isn't just the overt physical and psychological abuse, but covert biases that block women's ability to succeed from the start.

2006: States of Jersey Police begin a long-running covert investigation into child abuse, which is later dubbed Operation Rectangle and publicised in 2007.

Try telling Doreen Lawrence and her family that covert surveillance will never be abused by law enforcers, who will inevitably conflate dissent with disloyalty to justify spying on those who expose state abuse alongside those who threaten public safety and national security.

Subjects include the Persian Gulf, Afghan and Iraqi wars; oil supplies; prison abuse; court martials; and covert operations.

In the nineteen-nineties, he pioneered the use of covert video surveillance to catch M.S.B.P. abuse in hospital rooms.

This is because narcissistic or antisocial abusers are masters of playing mind games and covert manipulation, are able to deny the abuse through gaslighting and present a false image to the world which supports their denial.