Sentence examples for marks of abuse from inspiring English sources

Reports gave conflicting information regarding the physical marks of abuse, including of torture and rape, found on the bodies.

His body, given back by officials to his parents on May 25th, a month after he was arrested, bore multiple marks of abuse, including bullet holes, signs of electric shock, burns, bruises, a broken neck and castration.

Only 11 days before Sylena's parents were charged with killing her, the commissioner added, a child protection worker concluded after a by-the-book investigation, with numerous home visits, that bruises under Sylena's eyes were not marks of abuse and that a broken thigh in August was consistent with a fall from a bunk bed.

Far more than any English-language poet before her, she experimented with lines containing an odd number of syllables -- 9, 7, 5 or, as in "The Fish," an unlikely 1 and 3: All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice.

Although the dead cadet appears to have succumbed to natural causes, his body shows obvious marks of abuse, causing Rheinhardt to take a closer look at the way foreign scholarship students — and indeed, all outsiders — are persecuted by the privileged classes at St. Florian's and beyond its gates.

The marks of physical abuse aren't always distinguishable from the cuts and scrapes that are a part of normal childhood.

U.S. Speedskating has been marked by accusations of abuse against the former national short track coach, as well as sexual abuse claims against Andy Gabel, the organization's former president and an Olympic medalist.

Indeed, like Iraq, Russia, Mexico or other countries that experienced decades of dictatorial rule that eventually ended, Cuba today is a society marked by years of abuse, divided and uncertain about its future.

His brief first marriage, to the actress and model Robin Givens, was marked by accusations of abuse, and in 1993 he went to prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a beauty pageant contestant in Indiana.

The Dead Women of Juárez, by Sam Hawken (Serpent's Tail, £10.99) Texan writer Hawken's debut is based on the feminicidios – more than 3,000 murders of women in the past 20 years – that are committed in the Mexican border city of Juárez, as young women disappear and turn up dead (if at all) bearing the marks of rape and abuse.

The original accusations surrounding Mr. Dalli's ouster in October, and the sums of money involved, represent the most serious case the European Commission has had to contend with in years, although the European Parliament has been marked by recent cases of abuse of power and corruption.