But public defenders say Dawson's tendency to give punitive sentences to offending juveniles verges on abuse.
Some of you will find this creepy, verging on child abuse (you've told me before).
"This sounds like it's about mass marketing, money, and it's verging on child abuse," he said.
After all, when a man badgers a woman about her appearance, insisting that she look prettier, glossier, thinner, at its extreme, we call it what it is – rudeness verging on psychological abuse.
Zadie Smith has described libraries as "absolutely essential", Alan Bennett believes that closing branches is verging on "child abuse" and Neil Gaiman that failing to value libraries is "silencing the voices of the past [and] damaging the future".
"Raising Hope," on Fox, began promisingly with a hapless single father whose bungling ways with his baby verged on child abuse, but the series soon lost its nerve.
She was deprived, that was the theme here, and my behavior, as any impartial observer could have seen in a heartbeat, verged on child abuse.
While we have observed that terrorist groups are rife with sibling co-conspirators (for example, the Tsarnaev and Kouachi brothers and the Price and Berayeva sisters), the evolution from father to son at such a young age verges on child abuse.
Hall says, having spoken with Lutalo's father, Wayne, some of the mail is "verging on the line of abuse" and they are considering whether any legal action needs to be taken against these people.
"Fans of Aaron are turning against Lutalo which is absolutely unjust". Hall says, having spoken with Lutalo's father, Wayne, some of the mail is "verging on the line of abuse" and they are considering whether any legal action needs to be taken against these people.
The health care law, the main components of which are just being implemented, embodies for the right an abuse of government power verging on tyranny, which justifies the most extravagant response.
