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How to use abuse in a sentence

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Of course, to prevent abuse and corrupt practices, lobbying activities should be carefully regulated, monitored and made transparent.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims the incident highlights animal abuse by Australian farmers.
They stress that during that time they were never subjected to abuse or violence, even in the darkest days of the conflict.
In such a traditionally abstinent group, abuse of alcohol leads to shame and loss of traditional culture.
Manchester's war on binge drinking has been held up as a model for other cities as a new report reveals the true cost of alcohol abuse.
Drug abusers will abuse these medications, but people who are not drug abusers take what the doctor recommends.
They learn to associate sexuality with guilt because of messages about the sexual behavior from the abuser or others who learned about the abuse.
Too many franchisors are able to abuse their market power and contractual obligations without any effective sanction under the current law.
People who as toddlers learn secure emotional attachment due to good parenting don't feel the need to abuse drugs or alcohol.
Bulimics tend to be impulsive and more apt to abuse alcohol and drugs than average.
Patients who abuse alcohol and drugs are much more likely to develop medical problems than the general population.
They are more likely than anorexics to abuse drugs and alcohol or have problems with the law.
If you have family members who abuse drugs or alcohol, you're at higher risk of the same problem.
Future research will need to include greater numbers of individuals who abuse drugs other than alcohol.
Most youngsters abuse drugs and alcohol because they are bored or for kicks and don't realise it until they are addicted.
She was held overnight for interrogation, denied food and drink, and subjected to physical abuse.
A Columbia University survey shows teenage girls who date boys two or more years older are much likely to abuse drugs or alcohol.
In 1992 he was prosecuted by the council in the magistrates court after hurling abuse at a member of the public.
What induces perpetrators from all walks of life to sexually abuse young children, even infants, often with appalling violence?
That is why I left the group because people were always trying to disrespect and abuse me.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yes, they have good times, their freedom is large, and they do not abuse it.
If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great.
The excitable Carolinian has got some one to hear him abuse Cuba, and glorify Charleston.
He is a traitor to affiance and abuse to employment, and a rule of villainy in a plot of mischief.
Having paused awhile for words, I poured forth a torrent of abuse on ahern.
Still, for all this irritating abuse Vulp had only himself and his ancestry to blame.
Much had been effected by the use, or rather abuse, of the terms federalist and anti-federalist, federalism and anti-federalism.
Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse.
Yet writers abuse the fierce and vicious eagle, while they belaud the gentle and good robin.
The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.
That would have been an abuse of our treaties, and unworthy of your character.
Meanwhile, the abuse of the public purse goes on ad infinitum and we are left to rot.
The inference is that the use of birth control is good, its abuse bad.
The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things.
You will be apter to abuse your inferiors than well to govern them.
The loudest whingers of press abuse are often the whited sepulchres whose calamitous private lives give rise to mirth and gaiety when revealed.
He ended a string of abuse by a vicious backhander, which I failed to entirely avoid.
Nor is the abuse all true, in attributing to him motives so low.
If they do not succeed in bagging the expected game, they abuse him.
Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love.
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