Sentence examples for misused power from inspiring English sources

His incisive condemnation of those who misused power is highly relevant today to anyone who dares to hold public office in church or state.

Joe Sucher, a filmmaker who was one of the original plaintiffs in the suit, said people had forgotten that the police had misused power in the 1960's and 1970's.

An article by Reuters in some copies on Friday about the response of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines to calls for her resignation over accusations that she misused power referred incorrectly to an action by members of her cabinet.

No such sense of glamour and unearned, misused power is present in most 20th-century fictional portrayals of the press, where hacks typically toil pointlessly and joylessly (from Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts to Michael Frayn's Towards the End of the Morning).

The fundamental attribution error is the same dynamic seen in situations of abuse and misused power differentials.

That was part of the lesson he wanted to share with our young leaders: "When you are mistreated, deemed guilty before you are innocent, and oppressed by that form of unbridled, misused power and authority, it is infuriating.

Cold indifference "Indifference is a new means of misusing power," says Mr Lagrana.

"There's been a string of people abusing and misusing power from the people who elected them, and they're using it for personal gain".

In the meantime, he said, Mr. Zubeidah was useful as a "striking force against any person who tries to misuse power".

This is a clear example of someone misusing power to get away with sexual assault.

Union leaders and corporate executives, even members of the clergy, humans all, are fully and equally capable of misusing power the same way -- and the evidence that some do (not all) is in front of us every day.