Sentence examples for in a misuse from inspiring English sources

Britain's Supreme Court ruled that sanctions imposed on a commercial Iranian bank were invalid because the British Treasury had sought them improperly through a secret court proceeding in a misuse of Britain's antiterrorism laws.

In the initial book of the Recherche, on the senses, Malebranche proposed that the erroneous belief in the Aristotelians as well as in Augustine that sensible qualities exist in bodies has its source in a misuse of "natural judgments" that help in the conservation of the human body.

Moreover, Rabbi Dalin accused Goldhagen of engaging in a "misuse of the Holocaust to advance [his]... anti-Catholic agenda".

Modern 'true' Republicans have been raised on an unhealthy diet of mental junk food: Anti-government, anti-science, socially regressive rhetoric and a Captain America-like shield of certainty that their Ayn Randian selfishness, swathed in a misuse of the star-spangled words like "freedom" and "liberty", is a divine gift of their white male Christian God.

That rollerblading as a stand-in for in-line skating is a misuse of a trademark has not deterred scores of writers, including some in this newspaper.

President Clinton's pardon yesterday of Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges in 1996, is a misuse of the presidential pardoning power in order to pay back a loyal political lieutenant.

It is, in my judgment a misuse by the local authority of its statutory powers The misuse and abuse of section 20 in this context is not just a matter of bad practice.

Elwangu also described a football tournament organised as part of the project in June as a misuse of resources, which should have instead been used to fund income generating activities.

Some Arizonans blame immigrants for an increase in crime and a misuse and depletion of public services meant for American citizens.

Activists have vigorously opposed both jails, saying they represent an unnecessary expansion of jails in L.A. County and a misuse of public resources.

Such decisions are certainly open to criticism, but to invoke the First Amendment in that context is a misuse of terms.