Sentence examples for sort of abusive from inspiring English sources

He has also been seeking state legislation to gain a stronger hand to fire the sort of abusive officers who Ms. Ceisler concluded are too often reinstated by arbitrators.

I feel it is because, through the years, I have been brutally honest, in my writings and speeches and workshops, in admitting that the sort of abusive male they are describing, the type of man they are fleeing, the kind of man they've been getting those restraining orders against--was once me.

I sort of agree.

He might well have got himself into awkward situations, but he was not a sort of casual abusive lover".

Of course, rodent research is only one sort of invasive and abusive research that should be terminated.

The court in Senegal may well be a one-off, but it sets the right sort of precedent for the continent's abusive presidents.

"It definitely connects to the regime in the DPRK but also to any sort of propaganda machine, totalitarian regime or abusive relationship.

It started as the day people would feel some sort of satisfaction at Rutgers dumping its abusive basketball coach, Mike Rice, but then became the dissatisfying one with no retribution for a wishy-washy athletic director and backside-covering president.

The feminist personal as political is employed in Martha Rosler's "She Sees in Herself a New Woman Every Day" (1976), a grid of photographs of her shod feet arranged on the floor, accompanied by an audio monologue addressed to her controlling, abusive mother (a sort of domestic dictator).

He felt that the Bush Administration, under pressure from the press reporting about torture, had started to imply that abusive interrogation "was sort of a rogue C.I.A. operation" carried out by "a bunch of guys who love their country and took counterterrorism very seriously, but things may have gotten out of hand".

Like hardcore abusive, but it sort of went unchecked because we were relatively upper middle class and so we didn't really fit within the stereotype of an abusive family, so to speak.