Sentence examples for under abuses from inspiring English sources

Earnestly desiring leisure, feeling a decline of his physical powers, and wincing under abuses of the opposition, Washington refused to yield to the general pressure for a third term.

The shells don't crack or dent under abuse.

As I never tired of saying during the height of the banking crisis – where under-regulated abuses were also insufficiently appreciated until too late – banks are like sewers.

In calm and exacting prose, he examined a tribal society fracturing under the abuses of colonialism.

Human rights groups have denounced sweeping rights abuses under Sisi, calling the climate more repressive than under longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The temperamental black and white TV set came under heavy abuse that night.

State officials have vowed to prosecute polygamists under child-abuse statutes.

The Circuit Court correctly held that actions of County Canvassing Boards are reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard.

Campaigners said the review made it impossible for the government to deny that visa restrictions imposed on domestic workers create conditions under which abuse can flourish.

Some sportsmen crumple under sustained abuse.

The producer, who previously described Clarkson as a "unique talent", has come under sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute.