Sentence examples for exploited their position from inspiring English sources

The economists said Brussels and the IMF, which were the main creditors to Greece, also exploited their position to make unreasonable demands.

The home secretary told the Police Federation's annual conference that there was still evidence of too many victims being let down and "shameful attitudes" on the part of some police officers, who even exploited their position to develop inappropriate relationships with domestic abuse victims.

Abusers within the organisation are said to have exploited their positions as "sponsors", taking advantage of the vulnerable when they are at their lowest ebb.

For this reason, we ask senior members of staff from that time to account for what appears to be the severe failure of the school system to protect its pupils from those who exploited their positions of power.

Ethnicity is an underlying problem: many of the infrastructure force members are Tajiks or Uzbeks and have exploited their positions to intimidate Pashtuns, who are less numerous in the north.

The development came as almost 200 former students and teachers from Chetham's school of music in Manchester have signed a letter demanding that senior staff explain the apparent "severe failure of the school system to protect its pupils from those who exploited their positions of power".

Many of the street leaders, who are uniformly men, are despised or feared by other refugees; they've exploited their positions of relative power to benefit personally, by taking a larger share of the aid that is distributed, employing friends and relatives in jobs around the camp, or using violence to extort money and to suppress potential rivals.

But when banks seek to exploit their position and make a quick killing, they can cause enormous damage.

Caliphate-wide rules also forbid Isis members from being involved in state investments or to "exploit their position... and work in the state for personal interests".

"We say it provides the club with an almost unfettered opportunity to exploit their position at the expense of the footballer.

There are many excellent male managers in the sport who are there through choice but there are others who exploit their position of power and authority over the women they coach.