Sentence examples for overt abuse from inspiring English sources

Of course, many church leaders simply want to build their congregation without any overt abuse involved.

Not to mention that after the Baltimore Ravens originally supported Rice they rolled out a line of pink jerseys with his name on it, reminding all of us that not only do they turn a blind eye to assault but they are also tone deaf -- believing that women's outrage over this overt abuse could be assuaged with pink NFL merchandising.

For overt abuse, the most common perpetrators were the child's father or stepparent.

This class may index exposure to a more subtle degree of 'maltreatment risk' than is recorded in the items revealing overt abuse.

Sitcoms of the "golden age" had set boundaries: they did not make fun of characters, there was no overt abuse or cruelty except perhaps by a boss at work, there was an intent of doing good, of amusement, of perhaps teaching a lesson, of making people feel good, of no one ultimately getting hurt seriously by all the shenanigans.

Though there has been no violence, and human rights inspection teams have found no overt abuses, ethnic Russians claim a pattern of discrimination against them.

As wrong and abusive and distressing as your ex's behavior is, this type of harassment is not the sufficient in most court cases to necessitate a restraining order yet it's no less abusive to you or your children than more overt physical abuse.

Channel 4 said in a statement yesterday there had been "no overt racial abuse or racist behaviour" directed against Shetty.

And he probably does not need to consider whether he will face overt racial abuse, a lingering problem in some European leagues.

A social experiment that ended with an actor posing as an Islamophobe getting punched in the face has shown that Canadians are prepared to defend Muslims in the face of overt racist abuse in the wake of a recent terror attack.

The photographs of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinians, by contrast, show no overt physical abuse or coercion of the prisoners, although they are ridiculed in the comments between the soldier and her friends.