Sentence examples for pointed abuse from inspiring English sources

Far more pointed abuse was lobbed at a woman who had campaigned in August to get Jane Austen on a British banknote.

No matter that he had been somewhat unpopular, occasionally the recipient of pointed abuse, once punched so hard in the stomach that he vomited in a tidy unreal circle in the snow.

But accounts provided by residents during a two-day period appeared credible and pointed to abuses on both sides.

Critics said the ban would most hurt orphans already suffering in Russia's deeply troubled child welfare system, while supporters said Russians should care for their own and pointed at sporadic abuse cases involving adopted Russian children in the United States that have generated publicity and outrage here.

She has always denied the charges but an appeal failed last year after judges found the case against her overwhelming and pointed to evidence of previous abuse involving both her children.

Terence McKiernan, the president of BishopAccountability.org, an organization that tracks bishops' records on clergy abuse, had more pointed words about Francis.

Point to its pointed teeth.

While Americans have long pointed fingers at the waste, fraud and abuse by Afghan leaders, who are mishandling precious US taxpayer dollars in this debt-funded war, the truth is, the misdeeds are equally ubiquitous within the US defense department.

Twenty-three minutes later, Ms. Nuland sent White House and intelligence officials an even more pointed e-mail, objecting that the talking points could be "abused" by lawmakers "to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why do we want to feed that either?

Rose found Maginot's words insulting and pointed to the number of cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests as indicative of more "diabolism" in their faith than in hers.

I can't describe how disappointed I am in all the self-serving journalistic lambasting of steroid abuse in Major League Baseball, and in particular, the pointed attacks on Barry Bonds, surely the greatest baseball player of his generation.