There were a few people in Spain and that was probably beginning as a joke rather than anything abusive.
In a statement this week, Walter Lukken, the C.F.T.C. chairman, said the commission was determined to see that commodity prices were set "by the fundamental forces of supply and demand, rather than by abusive or manipulative practices".
But that doesn't excuse the claims of the anti-porn camp that the negative experiences Linda suffered were solely due to the sex industry, rather than an abusive husband.
In some cases, the authorities have simply adjusted, rather than ended, their abusive tactics, advocates say, and unrest has continued.
Bank regulators, they argued, should not have authority to veto consumer protection rules, because they have the interests of the banking sector as their central priority, rather than concern for abusive practices.
It may not be physical abuse, and it may be occasional rather than a pattern, but abusive or hurtful behavior in relationships is common.
For the last 30 years, she said, the emphasis has been on educating society as to why men are abusive, rather than why women stay with them.
I will enlarge the military's Foreign Area Officer program and create a new specialty in strategic interrogation in order to produce more interrogators who can obtain critical knowledge from detainees by using advanced psychological techniques, rather than the kind of abusive tactics properly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
Rather than change to less abusive practices, it has instead chosen to keep the public uninformed by aggressively pushing for legislation that makes such investigations illegal -- a classic case of shooting the messenger.
