Sentence examples for maltreating from inspiring English sources

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maltreating

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Present participle of maltreat

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Around 70% of maltreated children become maltreating parents.

Some were tried; up to ten were sentenced to prison terms and at least two to flogging.It is not just Muslim theocracies that Amnesty blames for maltreating women or denying their "reproductive" rights.

In modern societies brutality and sadistic murder of slaves by their owners were rarely condoned on the grounds that such episodes demoralized other slaves and made them rebellious, but few slave owners were actually punished for maltreating their slaves.

His father, a self-educated man of fierce vitality, had married a delicate woman from a cultured family and, coming to resent her social superiority, resorted to physically maltreating her.

There are dozens of strategies and variations for parents — those who have children with disabilities, chronic illnesses, obesity or emotional difficulties, as well as those going through separation or divorce or at risk of maltreating their children.

Her comments captured the Socialist dilemma: their most prominent candidate and hope of winning the presidency is suddenly out of the race, accused of maltreating an immigrant working-class woman and tarnished by perceptions of a lavish lifestyle.

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As a result of the pictures she took and appeared in at Abu Ghraib, she was convicted by court-martial, in May of 2005, of conspiracy to maltreat prisoners, dereliction of duty, and maltreatment, and sentenced to six months in prison, a reduction in rank, and a bad-conduct discharge.

They have been maltreated by the medical establishment.

The nuns who were supposed to care for him were "bordering on the psychotic" in the way they maltreated him and other children, the witness said.

Readers may never have heard of the dwindling and maltreated Karakalpak people before, but after a few of Mr Metcalfe's leanly written pages, they will care a lot.It is the same story with the other lost tribes he tracks down: the Jews of Bukhara, the Germans of Kazakhstan and the Yaghnobi people of Tajikistan.

It is in this shadowy area that some abuses have occurred that deeply embarrass more respectable black Christians: cases of children being maltreated on grounds that they are witches, for instance.Despite their differences, the black evangelicals and Pentecostalists have certain things in common with more informal movements like the Aladura.

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