Sentence examples for engaging in abuses from inspiring English sources

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But at issue is the performance of Mexico's army and the police, which have been accused by human rights organizations of engaging in abuses as they chase down the country's drug cartels.

Later, Gorelick represented another special interest--one caught engaging in abuses against military service members.

They said the sanctions would be partly "symbolic" but hope that naming mid-level officials may make functionaries "think twice" before engaging in abuses.

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Erdoğan said the demonstrators had martyred the police officer, and defended the law-enforcement officers, dismissing calls by some protesters that officers engaged in abuse be sacked.

"The companies concerned may have violated the antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices" as well as possibly engaging in "abuse of a dominant market position," the commission said Tuesday.

It uses perceived criminality as an excuse for engaging in abuse, in line with the "bandits" of the Warsaw Ghetto, the "delinquents" of the Santa Cruz Massacre and the fictitious would-be saboteurs blamed for Japanese internment.

"The people who engaged in abuses will be brought to justice," he added.

The king, speaking during the televised news conference, said that officials who engaged in abuses during the crackdown would be held accountable and replaced.

"The people who engaged in abuses will be brought to justice," Mr. Rumsfeld told American soldiers at the prison, while some Iraqi prisoners looked on and jeered.

Scott Horton, an expert in human rights law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York, said the memorandums would have a practical effect in the prosecution of civilians who engaged in abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Training can sometimes mean telling the Army you're working with not to engage in abuses; the proper verb, then, might be restraining, which some have argued is America's proper job when it comes to Iraq, and why we ought to have left a residual force there.

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