How To Use Abuse In A Sentence
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So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
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In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
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We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
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While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall.
News from the House of Sticks -
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He said this was an abuse of public monies and the fact there was no contribution from the business community was ‘grossly unfair.’
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We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me.
How long can Swaziland resist reform?
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Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
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Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
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Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
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For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
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Sudden sniffing death is particularly associated with abuse of butane, propane and chemicals in aerosols.
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Stated income loans only deserve the moniker "liar loans" because they were abused by banks and given to borrowers who lacked the income to qualify full doc.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drinkwise Day is mainly designed to educate people about the destructive effects of alcohol abuse.
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Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
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My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
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That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
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Failing to detain him could actually amount to abuse.
The Sun
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The report, which was based upon conversations with children who telephoned helplines, also claimed that the hidden problem of solvent abuse kills more children than drugs every year.
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He had to toughen his skin against constant and vile abuse.
The Sun
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Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients.
Times, Sunday Times
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The abuse of libel laws is not imaginary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Email and Net abuse at work have become the number one reason why UK employees face the sack, according to a survey out today.
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The officer was then subjected to a torrent of racial abuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice.
VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
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Alcohol abuse can be inherited but researchers had found few genes directly linked to it.
The Sun
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Much of the crime in this area is related to drug abuse.
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They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid.
Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
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They surely know they are going to be targets for abuse, so why do they do it?
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There is much debate on the issue of "therapists" implanting false memories of sexual abuse in adults.
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One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today.
Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
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Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
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The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
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We took the abused child away from its parents
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We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase.
Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused
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Eggs have been thrown at the library doors, staff have been attacked with stones and foul-mouthed youths have hurled abuse at readers.
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That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
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Church abuse cases: Mgr Scicluna speaks on need to 'amputate' to heal '
Timesofmalta.com
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Patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection, particularly when this is secondary to alcohol abuse.
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I think it would be animal abuse to attach a candiru to a tea-bagger.
Think Progress » AZ Sen. candidate Hayworth panders to birthers: ‘We all had to show our birth certificates’ to ‘play football.’
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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In some cases of abduction, the abducting parent is mentally unstable and/or a drug abuser.
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Using behavioral sensitization animal models, poly-drug abuse about tramadol and betel quid extract was investigated in psychopharmacological profiles.
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It is now claimed some officers may have been involved in the abuse.
The Sun
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All the children had been physically and emotionally abused.
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Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
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Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
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(I'm never home when it's on anyway) and setting the DVR to record it for later viewing seems more than I'm willing to do to expose my brain to the neuron-apoptosing and - necrosing antivaccinationist stupidity that Jenny routinely lays down, as lately I've been questioning whether any blog post, no matter how snarky and fun, is worth that kind of self-abuse.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Cases of moderate to severe depression are rising also because depression often co-occurs with other problems - alcohol and drug abuse; personality, eating and anxiety disorders.
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In America, the same augustness is reflected by his regular presence in the New Yorker and on university syllabuses.
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Many children have become emotionally disturbed as a result of the abuse they have suffered.
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In fact, some 'loads' abusers have ingested up to 12 grams of glutethimide and greater than 2.5 grams of codeine (often in combination with acetaminophen or aspirin) on adaily basis. 5 Complications from chronic abuse should also be considered.
Loads
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It is the abuse of the filibuster that has been the issue here and that repugs have no integrity, no honesty in dealing, no sense of fairness or justice — there should be some way to preserve the filibuster in order for the minority to be heard, but something must be done to prevent the abuses of the repugs.
Think Progress » Sen. Tom Udall Calls Reid’s Promise To ‘Take A Look At The Filibuster’ A ‘Warning Shot’ To Republicans
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Some reports also cite incidents of physical abuse.
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He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis
Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disabused us of this notion.
The President's Risky Defense Strategy
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On top of abuse, midwives also face a far more assertive and confident middle class mother than they did even 15 years ago.
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You abused them sexually for what must have been your sexual lust under cover of medical examination.
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Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys. Dr T.P.Chia
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The sanctuary takes in cruelty and abuse cases and regularly receives referrals from the police.
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Students do different syllabuses according to their ability.
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The physical abuse went on for years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cue more abuse from the crowd.
The Sun
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In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser.
On a child's view of English
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He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
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Genevieve was aware only of the diatribe; she knew a flood of abuse was pouring from the lips of the Jewess, but she was too stunned to hear the details of the abuse.
Chapter 2
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Victims also alleged that members of hospital staff were complicit in the abuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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I give you my endship and then, like everyone else, you abuse it.
Two women
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And vice associated with prostitution - pimping, extortion and drug abuse - simultaneously diminished.
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I confronted several of the teachers present over what I considered the abuse of students in their charge.
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Abuses of prosecutorial authority have continued unabated.
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It is now claimed some officers may have been involved in the abuse.
The Sun
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We work with a variety of young people and families, many have experienced traumas, different forms of abuse.
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The abuse was directed at the TV crews.
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Drugs include any intoxicant other than alcohol therefore even solvent abuse and driving may be covered by this offence.
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Actually it's called a monstrance and it contains a consecrated communion wafer (the big size that only priests get to eat), which by now has magically become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of bread. (there was a time when people chopped each other's heads off over a disagreement about whether it contained any blood) "the abuse took place in the 1970s; the police were informed and acted" - Jack Valero
RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
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Intent could be a factor in defining elder abuse.
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Cases of abuse have been acknowledged, and apologies and compensation have been paid appropriately.
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Lawyers for the schools had argued that abuse alleged to have happened years ago would make the commission's findings unsafe because of dimming of memory and non-availability of witnesses because of death.
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However, hotel staff say they refused to serve him at the bar, and claim that as a result Watson issued an angry tirade of abuse.
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The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses.
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In many cases where young boys sexually offend there was a family history of emotional, sexual and physical abuse.
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He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to "bestialize" his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow's udder.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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Drug abuse is the cancer of our society.
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Negroponte's embassy also suppressed information about human rights abuses committed by the Honduran military.
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an abused wife
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At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse.
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Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
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If you say anything to them you get abuse thrown back at you and it's becoming a disgusting area.
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This is followed by a barrage of verbal abuse that leaves me feeling inferior.
The Sun
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A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
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It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
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Several of the children had been sexually abused.
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When Rostnikov repeated that the primary evidence against Samsonov was the testimony of an Evenk shaman, Samsonov had to be restrained by Famfanoff who, surprisingly, found enough strength within his abused body to control the furious doctor.
A Cold Red Sunrise
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An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist.
DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
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Computer forensics is a very labor intensive business in terms of accessing the abuser's computer and getting sufficient evidence of robustness that will stand up in court.
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The pressures of child-abuse work prevent most health visitors from doing more than minimal surveillance of the frailest old people.
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Now in her 30s, between the ages of 9 and 18, Samantha was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather.
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Counsel to the inquiry Gerard Elias QC, asked whether his officers might have feared getting a "bollocking" if they reported abuse by their men.
The Guardian World News
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The exposure and _depluming_ (to borrow a good word from the fine old rhetorician, Fuller,) of the leading 'humbugs' of the age -- _that_ was announced as the regular business of the journal: and the only question which remained to be settled was, the more or less of the degree; and also one other question, even more interesting still, viz. -- whether personal abuse were intermingled with literary.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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The issue is the flagrant abuse of the term skeptical as used by someone with a highly selective and prejudiced opinion, as coupled with an inherent mistrust of a majority
Deltoid
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Back in Japan, Nakamura first heard of words like cocaine and psychotropics on television, and later she was impressed with a campaign against drug abuse that was started in her school.
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Moreover, when she eventually stops seeking these abusive men she substitutes their external abuses for a violent form of self-loathing that eventually becomes self-mutilation.
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Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay.
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She said they considered racial abuse as a hate crime and were committed to combating all acts of racism.
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He would have stable periods in a relationship and then relapse into physical abuse.
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Abusers are often suspicious and jealous, suffer from low self-esteem and need to assert themselves.
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Helping young people cope with the impact of drug and alcohol abuse is the focus of the play Coming To.
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The program runs a helpline for victims of homophobic abuse.
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A problem in researching child abuse is that social workers, in particular, are consistently subjected to complaints about their work.
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The chief villain here is technology, or, at least, its malicious abusers.
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Mr Woodcock's wife Mandy and 18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them.
Evening Mail news round-up
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He unleashed a torrent of abuse againstthe unfortunate shop assistant.
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Shalala noted that parents should talk with their children about drug abuse directly.
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He was arrested on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
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Developing countries think these procedures are abused by rich countries to keep out their goods.
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Alcohol abuse in men can cause loss of sex drive and reduced potency.
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Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote.
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However, a more likely issue is the legal implication for falling to monitor use and abuse of narcotic analgesics.
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This final section describes practices such as confining children for indefinite periods in six-by-nine foot cells, abuses that led to the appointment of a court-ordered monitor for Eufaula.
2008 November 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The case here was endimic at the place throughout the 90s, at least, as were other outrages and abuses (I know about this … managers who couldn’t care less let underage stockers tool around in forklifts that they have no training, and one I know of even tipped the forklift over going around a corner too fast).
Wal-smart « BuzzMachine
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These complaints were not the normal tirade of abuse and insults we receive but seemed genuine.
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But it was only after the wine glass attack, on December 27, 2003, his battered partner decided she could take no more abuse.
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If they act unfairly, whether procedurally or in relation to the substantive decision itself, then that constitutes an abuse of power for which judicial review provides a remedy.
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Previously only those who suffered abuse in industrial schools, reformatory schools, orphanages and children's homes for which public bodies had supervisory or inspection functions were included.
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We declared war after becoming sick of snarling stars hurling abuse at refs.
The Sun
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Whereas pedophilia and hebephilia refer to psychological propensities, child molestation and child sexual abuse are used to describe actual sexual contact between an adult and someone who has not reached the legal age of consent.
IsThatLegal?
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Any abuse of the Flexible Working Hours facility can result in its withdrawal, in addition to any disciplinary action which may be taken.
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For example, the vexed problem of alcohol abuse is argued by some to be amenable to outside intervention.
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I have to take into account that you are an abused and vulnerable person.
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A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
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Robin Shellard, defending, said his client had reappraised his life while in hospital and since being discharged had not returned to his past life of drug abuse and crime.
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'Drugs' are associated in most people's minds with drug abuse.
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Show some spunk . Quit pretending you're being abused.
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They called the police domestic abuse unit and asked for an officer to visit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I played when rumours of steroid abuse were rife.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we stood at the bow of the ship we peered over the edge and watched the maidenhead get battered, the wooden carving taking the abuse in stride.
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The model has accused the boxer's parents of verbal and physical abuse.
The Sun
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He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
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The abuse of libel laws is not imaginary.
Times, Sunday Times
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[Sidenote: Abuses to be prohibited.] (b) Communities like those of Central Africa, to be administered by the mandatary under conditions generally approved by the members of the
World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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I realized that one of the ways we can truly understand the agony and several abuses on the Vagina by men and women alike is to see through the eyes of a Vagina.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The proclamation complained that tobacco tended to corrupt men's bodies and manners, and that to cultivate tobacco was ‘to abuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful kingdom’.
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The couple were arrested Wednesday after two of the boys finally told investigators of the alleged abuse, police said.
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Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
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Convince a conservative that some southern sheriff is really using racial profiling as an excuse to harass black people and you will find that conservatives are just as outraged as anyone, but the mere potential for this to occur is no argument against racial profiling any more than the potential for a policeman to abuse his authority is an argument against having policemen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited
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A checklist of the types of physical abuse was developed to identify and categorise them.
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that 1, 000 teens die annually by breathing fumes from easily accessible products.
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Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in the schools.
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Others use hypnosis to recover repressed memories of sexual abuse or of past lives.
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Lockers, all coated with a layer of fresh paint to cover another year of abuse, lined up against these walls.
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Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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This is not to say that there are not PNM MPs who sometimes abuse parliamentary privilege.
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He claimed he could not remember anything of what followed before finding blood on himself, and told the jury he must have lost his temper and snapped after years of verbal abuse from Mr Berry.
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The erection of a costly monument in the capital while young people are homeless and the elderly are without proper medical care is an abuse of public money, the party stated.
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Child abuse seems to be particularly related to psychotic symptoms and diagnoses of schizophrenia.
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The state occasionally tests for drugs before scheduled bouts but only if a fighter has a history of drug abuse.
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V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Many judges have allowed abuse defenses but reject compulsive gambling syndrome.
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The incidents refer to alleged verbal abuse.
The Sun
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Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
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is often used instead of "drug abuse" to make clear that substances such as alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine.
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The DNA profile of the bloodstain found on a bedsheet was the same as Muntik Bani's, the Indonesian maid who died from abuse in October last year, the High Court was told.
Nst online
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Worse than parental leave, she says, is the 120-day annual allowance for parents to tend to sick children, which is impossible to plan and which is suspected of being widely abused.
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Causes of a high MCV include liver disease, alcohol abuse, hypothyroidism, reticulocytosis, marrow aplasia, vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency, and myelofibrosis.
You Staying Young
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While these catchphrases have been used and abused to the point of becoming banal, they are both historically accurate as well as symbolic of the attitudes that made the Apollo program in general a success.
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The protesters 'latest target is a credit union that accepts Mexico's matricular consular identity card, a card that is easily forged, easily abused.
CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2005
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There are the odd occasions where they shout and scream abuse and are taken off to Westlea Police Station.
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The Government is being urged to hold an independent inquiry into the alleged abuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Office of Inspector General -- which in May issued a damning report about the appalling lack of enforcement of inhumane large-scale commercial dog breeding operations -- found that the present government program for inspecting horses for soring "is not adequate to ensure that these animals are not being abused.
Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
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She was sexually abused as a child, she only completed grade 9, and she contracted Hepatitis C apparently while in detention.
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Poverty is a major contributor to mental illness, stress, suicide, family disintegration and substance abuse.
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What she did was an abuse of her position as manager.
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The person purporting to exercise his discretion has acted in abuse or excess of his power.
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Stress related factors might also influence interpretations of abuse, and evoke different responses in the victims of abuse.
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The rapist who wins women's trust and then abuses them is a more sophisticated, devious and frightening operator.
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She snarled abuse at anyone who happened to walk past.
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We now know that some families were cruel to children and that many children were abused without anyone stepping in to stop it.
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The first group, wont to judge the parents who believe an occasional, mild, judicious spanking is proper — or the second group, who harshly condemns the parents who truly abuse their child, even to the point ofdeath?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
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One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points.
Find Shannon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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A lot of racial abuse and harassment goes on.
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_ Ha! ha! nay there she abused you, 'tis plain; for you know what Manly said: the sweetness of your pulvillio she might mean; but for your breath! ha! ha! ha!
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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Lawyers can specialize in "elder law", which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination.
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Alcohol abuse in men can cause loss of sex drive and reduced potency.
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List the factors that contribute to the abuse of alcohol and other drugs.
An Introduction to Community Health
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In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult.
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The Sligo Rape Crisis Centre know this better than most and have striven to provide a sensitive and accommodating service to those who have suffered rape or sexual abuse.
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This didn't really go down so well because they repeated and misconstrued every word, and she rang me up and abused me.
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he urged zero tolerance for priests who abuse children sexually
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Rates of admittance for treatment for cannabis abuse are fairly high—three admittances per 1,000 users twice the rate in France—though the reason is unclear.
Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
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Yet it was also a time of alcohol and cocaine abuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The premise for alcohol abuse, one gathers, is that consciousness, or selfhood, or corporeality, is intolerable.
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If SB-1070 ends up exacerbating racial profiling, as many have predicted is likely, it will also open local police agencies up to a slew of lawsuits related to potential civil rights abuses.
Think Progress » Huckabee: New Law Will Open Arizona Up To A ‘Lawsuit Bonanza’
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Not included in the cost are theft, embezzlement, suicide, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect.
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the multiplex problem of drug abuse
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To read a tirade of abuse like this can only add to that trauma and make Nadia's bravery and eventual victory all the more commendable.
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A child who had been terrorized and quite possibly emotionally and sexually abused by an adult kidnaper for four years.
O'REILLY ABUSES THE ABUSED: Then Lies That He's Done So
