Sentence examples for phone abuse from inspiring English sources

Phone abuse is, at this stage, one of the great bete noirs of our age, whether it be walking and staring, dining and staring or lying in bed ignoring one's partner, but I maintain that there is something to be said for it.

Re cell phones on Long Island Rail Road trains ["Cell Phone Abuse Is Riding the Rails," Sept. 10]: there's a solution that I learned about while travelling this summer in England, where trains have designated "quiet coaches," in which cell phones are banned.

Mobile phone abuse can cause pathologic stress that may lead to addictive behavior such as Phantom Vibration Syndrome (PVS) and Phantom Ringing Syndrome (PRS).

Pay-phone abuse ranging from overcharging to broken equipment prompted the city to establish a franchise system overseeing competition in 1996.

Here his ever-rotating three assistants spend their days (and nights) arranging his calls, making and then unmaking travel plans and mostly receiving over-the-phone abuse that leaves them quivering in shame or seething with unexpressed rage.

The charity says its helpline received almost 4,000 calls about online and cell-phone abuse just last year, with the majority of calls coming from kids 12 to 15 years old.

Quickly and efficiently, with skill honed over many years of phone company abuse, Mom fills me in on her life (her feet hurt from standing up all day at work, and she's getting a new roof on her house), and talks about my brother David's upcoming wedding (it's going to be beautiful).

Last July, child-welfare officials in Champaign, Ill., removed a 5-year-old boy from his mother's custody after a baby sitter phoned an abuse hotline and reported that the child was still being breast-fed.

As the e-mails were read out, James Murdoch maintained the same seemingly confident, unflustered demeanor he had displayed through hours of relentless questioning by the inquiry's chief counsel on his failure to act sooner to clean up the phone hacking abuses at the two Murdoch-owned tabloids.

Like many of the other reports, I have never dropped the phone or abused it in any way.

After equipment was distributed, there were also limitations in implementing management policies for lost phones, data plan abuse, and phone storage.