Sentence examples for viewed as abusive from inspiring English sources

Along the way, Marriott has come under fire on several occasions from its financial partners for moves that investors, and some analysts, have viewed as abusive.

"Their efforts to escape regulation and the tax issues are chicken-and-egg," said a former senior Treasury official who fought what he viewed as abusive corporate tax shelters, including one used by Enron, in the Clinton administration.

In much of the country the police are popularly viewed as abusive, incompetent and corrupt — a perception not helped by periodic scandals, like the recent appearance of videos showing Mexican police officers being trained in torture methods.

When I asked Baldwin if he could have made the process smoother or quicker, he bristled: "That's where the thing gets twisted around to where the persistence of the father to want to have enforcement of his parental rights is viewed as abusive and aggressive — pathological behavior.

However, if the parents are not in good shape, then such children are viewed as abusive.

Her restricted access to their kids stemmed partly from an outburst, recorded by one of the children, that therapists viewed as abusive.

But the proposals would not affect the deeper debate, which is also under way, over proposals to give European antitrust officials more power to investigate and punish what they view as abusive anticompetitive practices.

In an e-mail attached as an exhibit to the subcommittee report, an Ernst & Young adviser warned that with respect to the H.P. loan program, "the I.R.S. may seek to apply the substance over form [doctrine] to transactions that it views as abusive".

The practice of lavishing millions of dollars in options on top executives and not expensing them is certainly coming to be viewed as an abusive accounting tactic.

To adequately understand IPV, it must be viewed as more than abusive behavior.

Soon after Mr. Louima's attack was first reported, thousands of Haitian-Americans marched on City Hall, and the bathroom assault quickly crystallized long-simmering tensions over what many of them viewed as a pattern of abusive, disrespectful policing.