Sentence examples for protracted abuse from inspiring English sources

But they have declined to comment on the protracted abuse in County Wexford, saying they do not know enough, even though the allegations against Father Fortune were repeatedly brought to the attention of church authorities, and even the Vatican.

Kroff's major subject seems to be the protracted abuse of a child.

Consequently, the threshold to utilize services of the medical system is high and incoming patients are mostly those with protracted abuse histories.

The polygamy survivor's memoir, usually detailing protracted slavery and abuse, has proliferated almost into a literary genre, although not, it emerges, one influential enough to have deterred British practitioner Mr Azad Chaiwala from a new campaign to "revive" polygamy.

The Times's Libby Purves, Mumsnet posters and newspaper letter writers have all pointed in recent weeks to the debt owed to Gaslight by the radio soap's protracted domestic abuse storyline.

Cobain's subsequent suicide was shocking enough, but Farmer's suffering was much more protracted as she was abused by her supposed carers over many years.

As the Mr. Handsome contestants practice for the question-and-answer round, many of them tell stories of being thrown in jail by police and abused over protracted stays.

She added, "Their bad acts, which are often fuelled by substance abuse, tend to be responses to untreated, protracted complex trauma.

Nor does it explain why, even though each high-profile victim means another heap of reputational damage, as it knows from the painfully protracted case of Caroline Criado-Perez who became the victim of abuse after having the nerve to campaign to get a woman on a banknote.

In animal models, acute withdrawal and protracted abstinence from alcohol and all other major drugs of abuse produce anxiety-like responses that are mediated by CRF and can be reversed by agents that block or reverse the actions of CRF (i.e., CRF receptor antagonists) (for review, see Heilig and Koob 2007).

In this context, the threshold for abuse was intentionally causing or risking a physical injury that involved disfigurement or "protracted impairment of physical or emotional health".