Sentence examples for misuse of an from inspiring English sources

And he rued the misuse of an invention that had been intended to make blasting safer.

However, insurance companies can and do deny care based on a perverse misuse of an evidence-based model.

Eskinder was arrested last September, a few days after publishing an online article criticizing the government's misuse of an antiterrorism law to arrest independent journalists and political dissidents.

An indictment charges the man, Lazare Kobagaya, with unlawfully obtaining American citizenship in 2006 and fraud and misuse of an alien registration card.

"F.D.A. Creeps Forward" (editorial, Jan . 11 highlights the agency's action to limit misuse of an important human class of antibiotics (cephalosporins) in food animal production.

One of the ways that the Bush administration tried to avoid accountability for its serious misconduct in the name of fighting terrorism was the misuse of an evidentiary rule called the state secrets privilege.

Misuse of class A-tranquilizers (narcotics), misuse of opiates and tranquilizers, and misuse of alcohol were combined into the category substance misuse.

"Misuse of a resource in short supply," Ainsworth said.

Some critics were sniffy about what they saw as the misuse of a fine voice.

History turned on the misuse of a single word, pure human accident.

The other involved the reported misuse of a $2 million donation from the sultan of Brunei.