How To Use Bullying In A Sentence

OVER the past few weeks, the nation seems to have reached a general consensus about bullying. The Sun
He called the case disturbing and said it underscores the pervasiveness of cyberbullying.
All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with.
There is also hassling and teasing and good-natured joshing that to an adult looks like vicious bullying but to a child is something different.
He cited the cases of a girl committing suicide after continued cyber-bullying and harassments and an online suicide pact among youth thwarted by South Korean police.

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Only in the movies does badass bullying expose conspiracies rather than recruit new conspirators to the cause.
Patients went hungry and thirsty and without medication and there was a lot of awful bullying of patients and relatives going on. The Sun
His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
The girl's afore-mentioned burden - a phenomenon - had been perpetually exacerbated by Carl's boorish, bullying behaviour towards her.
You've no right to burst in here, making all these accusations and bullying an old man. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
Christine, the play's bullying main character, wouldn't last a minute in the real world.
He talked about how the alpha male chimp tends to have one of two models of leadership, one being a bullying model and the other being a populist leader model.
MySpace issued a statement saying it "does not tolerate cyberbullying" and was cooperating fully with the US attorney.
My parents were also older, which marked me out for bullying, both physical and verbal.
Also, they have never partaken in the demographic bullying which is seeing to it that the streets of Britain are the subject of a creeping - more of a brisk walk actually - colonisation aka multiculturalism. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.
Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
Technology-based bullying would be particularly damaging to victims because online harassers can post pictures or videos anonymously and to large audiences.
If the problems are a result of bullying at school, meetings may be held with school staff, the pupil and the support worker.
He represented himself as a hard - working, self - made small businessman victimized by mindless, bullying bureaucracy.
It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying.
It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery. Chapter 11
Backwardness will leave us vulnerable to bullying.
The slogans attack America's involvement in Indo-China and support of Zionism, as well as American and Soviet "aggression, control, interference, and bullying".
Of course the main section of bullying would have to be physical hurt of others.
They said a gang called the "Asian Invasion" was behind a campaign of bullying at the school, and demanded security guards to protect pupils. "and that" Patrick said a fight had been arranged after Henry "barged" into a group of Asian boys in a school corridor. Archive 2008-01-01
County ambulance service chiefs were censured for bullying.
Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
The warning came as MPs published a report highlighting serious failings in the way schools tackle bullying. The Sun
They should not minimize, rationalize, or explain the bullying away.
Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
They actively discourage charity and contribute to a culture of anxiety and bullying. Times, Sunday Times
Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.
What galls me more, I guess, than American fast food culture and all that this entails is the bullying, we're right you're wrong and we'll fight you for it attitude.
To protect themselves from accusations of bullying unfriendliness, these kids are really really nice to everybody all the time.
As a teenager, John was quite portly - yet with a bit of discipline and a lot of bullying, the freshman fatty soon became a sophomore slim.
Since virtually every Berliner is a potential agent waiting for someone to turn and unturn him, Butler is free to roar through bars and bordellos to his heart's delight, bullying and seducing as the mood takes him while the agents fall out of the trees either way, and writing it all off to limitless expenses. Armageddon Now?
The creature bellowed a seeming laugh at the pitiful maneuver, gnashing its wicked teeth and bullying its fiery body in such a way as to corner Galafar from getting away, coiling its body all around him.
The poems demonstrated a range of feelings and ideas about bullying, from where to go if you are being bullied to how bullies feel.
Several people feared putting special schools and mainstream schools on one site would lead to bullying of disabled children.
This latter process is termed "mobbing," which is distinct from bullying in that it involves a group of people who become increasingly aggressive and increase in size provided they have been told by management that a worker is unwanted, that any reports about the worker are encouraged, and that any adversarial action taken against the worker is acceptable. Janice Harper: Bullying in the Schoolyard Is Not the Same as Workplace Bullying
Most foreign opinion saw Britain as the aggressor, an evil Goliath against the David who was pluckily standing up to his bullying.
Managers bullying staff into fiddling cancer figures. Times, Sunday Times
The feat represents his strength in overcoming the bullying he endured as a child.
Students with Asperger syndrome frequently say they are the last to get picked for games and are seen as loners, making them more isolated and susceptible to bullying.
Does she not have the same right as the other councillors to offer fresh ideas, without fear of needless, unconstructive and childish bullying?
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
His confidence and selfesteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he experienced in secondary education. Times, Sunday Times
The media should focus more attention on how to improve the taxpayer-financed public school system and how to reduce bullying and schoolyard violence.
But simply accept bullying, tug our forelocks and suck it up? Archive 2009-07-01
There's often a conspiracy of silence surrounding bullying in schools.
Yet in this small act of bullying self-aggrandisement, we get the measure of the man. Times, Sunday Times
He refuses to answer her question and instead turns the tables by saying she is bullying him, waxing bitchier and bitchier ("I mean, you are like twice my age") (cut to Zanna blanching and making big eyes at the camera). Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway #11, "Quoth The Raven: Nevermore"
The 400 porters, domestics, laundry and catering workers are the latest group of health workers to take on the low pay, bullying and exploitation of their private contractor bosses.
That’s what bothered me, really: the commenters seem to feel that bullying someone offstage is “speech” and not “force”, simply because they were shouting at the time. Surely Lucy Won’t Yank the Football Away This Time!
She stirs up antagonism, bullying members of other departments in the guise of working on my behalf.
Some fair-minded Kalenjin see the court as the best hope of reining in the power of bullying tribal leaders.
They are a tight-knit community with people of status at the helm, but even their best efforts cannot control the lunatic, bullying, and loutish few.
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
And oftentimes, I talk to those who engage in cyberbullying behaviors, and they genuinely didn't realize the harm that would come from them posting certain information online. The Rise In Cyberbullying
He said that the press had misrepresented him as arrogant and bullying.
He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc. The Enormous Room
High schools are remaking yearbooks to more accurately reflect student populations amid larger societal concerns about bullying, peer pressure, and self-esteem.
Lightning fizzed majestically just on cue behind her spiked crown; briefly illuminating the symbolic relic of a world now lost to the seizing hand of bullying big businesses and tactless political tyrants.
A review into claims of a culture of bullying was launched, with findings due soon. Times, Sunday Times
Patients went hungry and thirsty and without medication and there was a lot of awful bullying of patients and relatives going on. The Sun
Parents and schools must emphasise the importance of mutual respect and tolerance and warn of the damage bullying can do. Times, Sunday Times
We have to recognise that not only is bullying ruining people's lives, it is costing the UK economy millions every year in tribunal payments, legal fees and wasted talent
Nationally we know that around 22 % of secondary school pupils have suffered cyberbullying, but until now we did not know younger age groups were also seriously affected.
But people are still being made to work harder, in worse conditions, with more managerial bullying and in more insecure temporary jobs.
They are young people accustomed to bullying from superiors. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
She is calling for state and federal leaders to push for more action against cyberbullying.
My bullying started on the very first day at school and I was called a snob and posh because I had a different accent to the rest of my classmates.
Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia
They come from diverse backgrounds but all share stories of bullying. Times, Sunday Times
What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for?
The topic is fuelled by the often negative press that bullying gets in the Press, often the local press which highlights the problem and over-hypes the issues with one-sided articles.
Dave Weigel of the Washington Post has accused Sarah Palin of "irresponsible and pathetic bullying" in her quick militance to demonize McGinniss as some sort of sleazy stalker with an eye on the daily activities of her children. Sarah Palin Erects Border Fence Around Her House (PHOTO)
She said schools were reminded in 1994 that behaviour and discipline codes should include measures to counter bullying behaviour.
The project should raise general awareness about bullying.
They may be regarded by their fellow pupils as arrogant and over-ambitious, and be subjected, possibly, to snide remarks and even bullying.
He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings. CHAPTER III
The purpose of the bullying audit was explained and their participation in a confidential and discreet interview was invited.
The incompetence, the lies, the bullying, the cynicism, the cover-ups.
But McVay's bullying haunts him, and he fantasizes revenge.
She said that bullying is not just isolated to schools or youngsters but can be seen in society.
Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
She slowly regained her weight and the bullying stopped when she left school for college. The Sun
She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly.
Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
Through our cyberbullying campaign we will continue the push to help stamp it out for good.
He endured years of senseless, unfounded, unstopped bullying, knowing he was too physically weak to defeat his enemies, yet he tried.
My husband has always been a very big drinker and is controlling and bullying. The Sun
Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
No bullying nor entreating of the forewoman could persuade the women to return to work. CHAPTER XIV
Looking back, he sees his reaction as sadly predictable after years of psychological bullying.
But last September she appeared to be struggling with online bullying. The Sun
Pop and sports stars will get the message out on radio and TV, and schools are being asked to sign up to an anti-bullying Charter for Action.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has accused Royal Mail management of bullying and harassing postal workers as the war of words ahead of letter to Royal Mail chief Mark Higson, CWU leader Dave Ward claimed "unagreed HR procedures" were being used in an attempt to bully employees into agreeing to changes to working practices. PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories
(Julia Garro) "The biggest finding that comes from this report really is that homophobic and transphobic bullying is really neither rare nor harmless," said Tracey Peter, coinvestigator for the survey and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba, at a panel discussion of the findings on Apr 1. Undefined
The report revealed cases of bullying and intimidation of members, who also felt they could achieve little remedy through the existing internal complaints system.
And futile bullying, too, because once somebody stood up to the Government they retreated. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
The Government's crime strategy, which has not been published, is understood to highlight the need to target bullying in schools to help combat violent crime.
Anti-bullying charity Kidscape has trained 24 students to become peer mentors for new students.
Getting his macho kicks bullying suppliers, using a little muscle to wrangle better prices on yellowtail and grouper and shrimp and lobster. OFF THE CHART
Despite its official backing the book pulls no punches and includes tales of the singer's bullying and bad behaviour.
The report added:'There were many examples given to the researchers of bullying and discriminatory behaviour towards staff and students. Times, Sunday Times
(or for that matter other forms of bullying (such as embargoes)). AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Fahrenheit 9/11 is not a documentary for the ages, it is an act of counterpropaganda that has a boorish, bullying force. Edelstein on f9/11
Almost 40 years ago, as a boy of ten, I was subjected to persistent bullying at a new school.
Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia
He had similar difficulty admitting that his treatment of critics and whistleblowers amounted to bullying. Times, Sunday Times
The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
Most importantly, you attack MPs who support dangerous industries when they provide jobs in their own constituencies but tou ignore the actions of this fat, old, bullying dypso who spent his entire career defening the glorious right of his constituents to die of pneumonoconiosis - a condition that had killed his own father. The Sunday Cyril: "What is Nye Bevan" Jeannie
Then they will deliver an online petition to the Government asking for laws to make bullying illegal. The Sun
A doormat for that bullying old harridan to wipe her feet on.
Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia
As a prominent figure in Rottweiler rescue, she's stubbed her toe on more unfair bullying and downright idiocy than most.
Females, Byers found, expend huge efforts bullying other pronghorns, and much of their time is taken up jostling each other for the choicest napping spots.
With many teenagers using instant messaging, blogs and other websites to keep in contact, the threat of cyberbullying is rising, say experts.
A friend of mine ended up in tears through the bullying. The Sun
There has been a long-standing bullying relationship. The Sun
She said: ‘We want a zero tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour in all our schools, on everything from backchat to bullying and violence.’
On the other, a wholly different set of images, of queues of frustrated holidaymakers fuming about missing their flights, of headteachers and plucky parents battling to keep classrooms open in the face of union bullying, a photographers' hunt to find Ed Miliband crossing a picket line, perhaps even a punch-up with the police, if the Daily Mail really gets lucky. Public sector pensions: after the strike, the settlement | Editorial
Although bullying itself might not have got any worse, what has changed is the way in which adult society looks at playground goings-on.
A friend of mine ended up in tears through the bullying. The Sun
I hate bullies but I do have a horrible feeling I have this bullying streak in me, and it does horrify me.
My Rachel is now 12 and I do worry and get scared and there have been many major scares and trips to the ER and last year well I just was in mama bear mode most of the year as we dealt with bullying. About Last Night - Her Bad Mother
The report added:'There were many examples given to the researchers of bullying and discriminatory behaviour towards staff and students. Times, Sunday Times
Some women were aware of the influence of technological imperatives on the attitudes of health professionals, and they occasionally experienced this as bullying.
The move to sue comes despite concerted action to tackle bullying in schools in the past few years, including a national anti-bullying network.
It has been beset by scandal, including allegations that it sent bullying legal letters from fake law firms to clients. The Sun
He seems to confuse good governance with ‘political bullying’, and should take lessons in casuistry from someone.
Competition is both a blessing and a curse in life. Competition leads to human excellence and progress, as well as the legal bullying of the weak. Dr T.P.Chia
The idea of a much-married woman, Lee, bullying a family of misfits into being her slaves until she meets Smokey, a carny who runs a hell ride and may be the devil himself, is not without interest.
Burnside City councillors in Adelaide are being escorted through council offices amid concerns over bullying. Times, Sunday Times
We would punish him, with really typical schoolyard bullying.
Sometimes it is easier to engage in cyberbullying than more direct acts because the bully never faces the victim.
Some, especially in the provinces, unmasked bullying and thieving local officials who had been exploiting the people.
Parents made a complaint to the principal about bullying in the school.
The practice is not limited to children but distinction in age groups is usually marked by a different choice of words: the adult experience of online abuse is usually referred to as cyberstalking or cyberharassment. undertook a study on cyberbullying in November 2009, involving 15,000 children. Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Seeing how polarizing the Prop 8 issue was at my daugher's school where kids were obviously parotting their parent's viewpoints (and bullying each other on the playground according to who was pro and who was anti Prop 8), I am particularly worried about how susceptive our youth are to these things. Variations on a theme
There is no future in nagging or bullying Israel to commit suicide by the admission of a fatal locust swarm of enemies. The Arabs of Palestine
The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
They are young people accustomed to bullying from superiors. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
When we mouth off or botch it, they see us as the Dalton Boys, bullying goons who never learn.
I don't recognize "cyberbullying" as a seperate crime because what you call cyberbullying is actually the same as cyberstalking "the use of fake personas to cause intentional harm on another person. WordPress.com News
They are young people accustomed to bullying from superiors. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Renesco now gives you a one time discount (like he said he would) after "bullying" your way through the second quest.
The children's secretary published guidance earlier this month designed to clamp down on homophobic bullying.
Somebody was bullying somebody, and Martin interfered, to be confronted by Cheese-Face's blazing eyes. Chapter 15
I have flagged this video on YouTube for "Hateful and abusive content" subcategory "bullying" -- everyone else should do the same. Hillary Airs New Ad In Pennsylvania Hitting Obama's "Small-Town" Comments
That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England.
Problems came about because of his bullying attitude, though he claims the local constabulary had it in for him. The Sun
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. Brene Brown
They are also frequently the victims of a culture that encourages bullying. Times, Sunday Times
Parents and schools must emphasise the importance of mutual respect and tolerance and warn of the damage bullying can do. Times, Sunday Times
It has been beset by scandal, including allegations that it sent bullying legal letters from fake law firms to clients. The Sun
He seems typical of football - blundering, bullying and completely unaware of people around him. Times, Sunday Times
You know this is really sad when other feminist women and profeminist men critique another profeminist man - it is not called ‘bullying’. I sold Amptoons.com: Comments are now open.
Anyone who participates in mobbing or bullying is wrong. Bullying in Arkansas
Then they will deliver an online petition to the Government asking for laws to make bullying illegal. The Sun
For example, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN) 2008 National School Climate Survey reveals that anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment remain commonplace in America's schools. Irene Monroe: When will the homophobic bullying cease?
There can be much enmity, rivalry and bullying between siblings. Times, Sunday Times
Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after finding out that his college roommate and another classmate used a webcam to secretly broadcast his sexual encounters with another male, highlighting the dangers of "cyberbullying" -- teasing, harassing, or intimidating with pictures or words distributed online or via text message. Irene Monroe: When will the homophobic bullying cease?
He calls the United States -- or accuses them of "paranoidal bullying. CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007
However, he is confident that the structured way that the skills are taught in Newry should act as a safeguard against bullying.
But last September she appeared to be struggling with online bullying. The Sun
How do you get a victim of bullying to open up and admit it?
All too often, burnt out teachers are hounded out by bullying managers, failing to recognise that there is still much to offer if the right flexibilities are allowed.
The men have been locked in a wrangle with their employers since they were sacked in 2000 amid allegations of bullying and harassment.
As for bullying, I was sometimes the victim of non-physical intimidation.
The men worked with a fervor unusual to see, worked without the incentive of the whip or the bullying cries of the masters-at-arms. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
It does indeed seem counterintuitive to continue the heartbreaking and futile process of militarizing the area, bullying and repatriating people.
Even when made aware of bullying, Ofsted inspectors won't mark a school down for it now, either.
Since then, South Korea's defence ministry has brought out new orders banning beating, cruelty, humiliation and bullying within the armed forces, to tackle what it calls a "distorted military culture". BBC News - Home
Recruits face bullying, self-harm, injury and early dropout because initial training and care are not better managed, a new report says.
The referees' union must intervene and take a stance against footballers circling the ref and bullying him. The Sun
The nasty aspect of contemporary workplace bullying is that it is directed towards senior employees.
Cambridge is considering plans to visit America next year to urge the bosses of the world's biggest technology companies to do more to tackle cyberbullying. Times, Sunday Times
Other students related similar accounts of having witnessed bullying or having been bullied by college teachers.
But for the last Bushmen of the central Kalahari, all this is worthless: worse, it all brings a bullying destructiveness which could spell their end.
Would an anti-bullying program have saved those kids in Jena? “deviant behaviour” and bullying. « Love | Peace | Ohana
Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
Bullying is a significant problem, with figures suggesting one in five suffer.
They're like storm troopers who manage to go through life weeping for their own victimhood while bullying everybody around them.
Parents who are overly permissive, who give in to obnoxious or demanding children, are letting them know that bullying pays off.
Parents who contacted the group say no action was taken to combat bullying, despite repeated requests to school management.
Behind these violent and ugly displays of rank bullying lies a profound irony.
The thesis of the book is, I think (it's hard to tell, even though the article about it goes on for 26 paragraphs), that our society is "rankist," which means that it privileges "bullying behavior of people who think they are superior. IsThatLegal?
Though the film's homophobia, bullying and brutality are fictional, they resonate with truth.
Concentrating heavily on academics at the expense of social skills, streaming students, failing to give them a sense of achievement, labelling misbehaving students, transferring responsibility for discipline to outside agencies, an authoritarian school environment with a high degree of corporal punishment, failing to give students opportunities to participate in all activities regardless of their background and ignoring bullying. TrinidadExpress Today's News
Cruelty to animals, deliberate unkindness, bullying smaller children: these were major crimes.
Kaufman is riffing on well-connected dots from Wolfe's reportage, as well as having a little fun with Johnson's reputation for old-school bullying and sulking.
Then you are saying to me now, "On the other you state that a post that was not even directed at you and which did not even mention your name constituted bullying. NY Daily News
‘As a parent of young children, I felt that there was a need to offer some simple advice on a range of topics such as bed-wetting, bullying and term dates,’ says Waugh.
He might have been an outsider at school, a short lad who learnt to fight to escape bullying, but gritstone became the arena where he could prove himself to be ahead of the pack.

How To Use Bullying In A Sentence

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