Sentence examples for their abused from inspiring English sources

Serious writers (Andrea Ashworth, Jennifer Lauck) have shown no compunction in writing about their abused childhoods.

The students who invaded the Tehran embassy told their abused American captives they expected sympathy for the hardship of being their jailers.

It is also peopled with characters who say things like: "Your life seems perfect!" and: "I felt like I didn't have a choice!" between long scenes suffused with portentous music, presumably to drown out the clattering noise of a thousand monkeys bashing out the next portion of script on their abused typewriters.

Sometimes she and her fellow guards posed alongside their abused wards, but most of her photos from Abu Ghraib have a purely documentary quality — solitary prisoners, stripped and manacled in their cells, stretched over bed frames or forced to balance on a box.

First and foremost was drugs of all forms and types, their histories and medicinal uses, and their abused uses, on which he was even more of an expert — in particular acid, marijuana, and crystal, his favorite topic and his favorite drug.

The Manson Family amounted to a strange microcosm of this racial tension in America, guided by the primal fear and hatred of African Americans instilled in their abused and angry leader.

"Blaming the abused for their abuse is indefensible," said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit commentator for America Magazine.

However it has also distracted attention from something stressed to me regularly by organisations working with abused children: their abusers are mostly neither celebrities nor men lurking in sinister cars and parks but usually someone, of either gender, known to the child – a friend, a neighbour, a nanny or, often, a close relative.

She has helped countless abused people confront their abusers.

Although a large proportion of women reported being satisfied to extremely satisfied in their marriages, abused women were significantly more likely to report being unsatisfied or extremely unsatisfied in their marriages (table 5).

The Roman Catholic Dioceses of Metuchen and Paterson said this week that they had spent some $3.6 million in legal fees, settlements and other costs over allegations that their priests abused children.