Sentence examples for most abusive practices from inspiring English sources

Congress outlawed many of the credit card industry's most abusive practices in 2009.

Throughout, Georgia has remained at the forefront of efforts to curtail creditors' most abusive practices, only to have the industry devise new ways to get around them.

Only meaningful legislation prohibiting the most abusive practices for high-cost loans will make the subprime market truly equitable and efficient.

To even the odds, Shesol writes, They scoured the dockets of appellate courts across the country for labor cases that combined the most abusive practices, the most sympathetic victims, and the most auspicious legal issues.

He planned to tackle one of the mortgage brokerage industry's most abusive practices: the yield spread premium, by which banks paid lucrative bounties to mortgage brokers who found new clients.

But consumer groups and other advocates who have long battled Associates over its practices said they were disappointed with the changes, calling many of them cosmetic and accusing Citigroup of sidestepping concerns over the most abusive practices.

"Trying to Have It Both Ways" (editorial, Dec. 26) did not cite the most abusive practice of credit card companies, the issuance of cards to teenagers with no jobs and no source of repayment except parents.

Mr. Kim said many business people of Korean descent in the district felt unfairly tarred with negative stereotypes -- that Koreans rely on knockoffs of styles developed by others; that the worst wages and most abusive labor practices are found in their factories; that they dodge paying taxes.

New Fannie Mae rules meant to lessen the cost of expensive bank-imposed home insurance would fail to curb some of the most abusive industry practices, say two experts who reviewed a copy of the new requirements obtained by The Huffington Post.

Yet the activists also say Citigroup officials have indicated that they are not willing to halt what critics consider to be the most serious abusive practices.

Turns out, there is so much going on in my world — business, finance, housing, financial reform, our polarized politics, and most recently, the abusive practices of the N.C.A.A. — that I can't possibly keep abreast of it all in two columns a week.