Sentence examples for represent an abuse from inspiring English sources

Workplace bullying is more apt to represent an abuse, or misuse, of legitimate power.

The left does not like big banks because they represent an abuse of power by private individuals.

The United States Trustee, a unit of the Justice Department that monitors the bankruptcy system, has also sued Countrywide, contending that its loan servicing practices represent an abuse of the bankruptcy system.

Yet given that the crime of blasphemy is punishable by death, that 97% of Pakistanis are Muslim, and that the remainder are an intimidated and largely impoverished sliver, then the country's many blasphemy cases more obviously represent an abuse of both religion and the law.The case of Rimsha Masih, a Christian girl, underlines that interpretation.

This represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system and a clear violation of publishing ethics.

As such, this article represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system.

"The transmission of these comments via a BBC Radio programme represents an abuse of the privilege given to the BBC to broadcast to its audiences.

The Constitution disagrees, and, by firing Comey and making a baldly contestable claim to his motives, Trump has invited a new investigation into why he took that step, how he described his reasoning, and whether it represents an abuse of office.

Yet several of the conservative justices seemed to defend the proposition that a federally funded expansion of a program in which states choose to participate because they receive federal aid represents an abuse of power, merely because states have become dependent on that aid.

But on the issue of whether the Al-Awlaki killing represents an abuse of executive power, Paul isn't alone.

When I represent a sexual abuse victim we start with one or maybe two clients, but as the ball gets rolling forward more victims almost always come forward".