"Taking local control from the community I think is an abhorrent act of dictatorship," Mr. Connor said.

"We, the Dual Monarchy's government denounce this abhorrent act."

Every citizen is entitled to her day in court, to have her claims considered under the rule of law and free from these abhorrent acts.

This was an abhorrent act of terror.

These abhorrent acts of terrorism were rightly rejected by the world community and stymied the Palestinians' efforts to gain statehood recognition.

The police department came under national scrutiny for its investigation and the abhorrent acts that took place.

Sexually abhorrent acts such as incest, infidelity, and predation, for instance, inform much of his work.

The only thing that had kept me from it was hope; and now to sustain my hopes, would I commit an abhorrent act?

The murder that occurred there was a profoundly condemnable, abhorrent act.

That violence is an abhorrent act.