"prolonged" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Faheem's death was perhaps as avoidable as the 1995 killing of 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo, whose prolonged abuse started the overhaul of New York City's child welfare system.
- In the last years of his life Fadeyev developed a nervous condition, exacerbated by the prolonged abuse of alcohol.
- The chief executive of the disability charity Mencap, Mark Goldring, said Askew had endured "terrible and prolonged abuse".
- In their summary, the judges did not use the terms "sexual slaves," as prosecutors had during the trial, to describe the prolonged abuse of the girls and women of Foca.
- Following the British defeat, and after enduring prolonged abuse, Davis and his family were forced to leave their home.
- Osteomalacia and arthropathy associated with prolonged abuse of purgatives.
- Cases where it might be unjust involve mercy killings, failed suicide pacts, and "battered defendants" who were subjected to "prolonged and severe abuse".
- But as the prolonged abuse and brutal slaying of 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo attests, the gap between what is on the books and what happens in reality can be enormous.
- Generally, ArmorFlex panels must withstand prolonged abuse before breaking.
- So long as President Bush delays naming directors for the national Legal Services Corporation, he must share in the blame for one of Ronald Reagan's most prolonged abuses.
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