"abuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Child World said that employees at Toys "R" Us were "systematically abusing" its promotion.
- In a civil suit filed this week, Ms Nussbaum, 46, accused Mr. Steinberg of systematically abusing her, undermining her sense of independence and self-worth and slowly isolating her from the real world.
- The video on the camcorder shows the Cradle of Filth band members in something like an empty dance hall, sharply dressed, systematically abusing and humiliating half a dozen young men and women, while Dani directs proceedings with a megaphone.
- The agreement could have provided for incorporation of the standard in the omnibus United States trade legislation, which denies trade preferences to countries that systematically abuse worker rights.
- According to Crikey, The Age of 19 March 2010 reported that the Vienna Boys Choir "has been caught up in accusations that pedophile priests systematically abused their choristers."
- Western farmers, specifically those of the Grange Movement, were the dominant force behind the unrest, but Westerners generally - especially those in rural areas - believed that the railroads possessed economic power that they systematically abused.
- The cathedral was involved in a paedophilia scandal in the 1980s involving Choirmaster John Gallienne, who was revealed to have been systematically abusing choirboys of the boys' choir, now disbanded in consequence.
- Problems were exacerbated, however, by Father Stefano Cherubini, originally headmaster of the Piarist school in Naples who systematically sexually abused the pupils in his care.
- However, when we look at the actual situation, it is unfortunately clear that people are applying for asylum for very different reasons or even systematically abusing the system.
- The list of Turkish violations of such things as the UN Declaration of Human Rights is lengthening as Turkey goes on deliberately and systematically abusing its own citizens.
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