Mr. Booker said he would "use every lever possible to stop this gross misuse of public funds."

The illness is the gross misuse and abuse of something I call the human metaphor.

"Admiral, that is a gross misuse of the hearsay excep- tion."

This case has the earmarks of a gross misuse of political power to signal that a challenge to the Kremlin is not advised.

It would have been a gross misuse of federal funding if that was the highlight of what was in the main building.

Even after Streicher was under house arrest for gross misuse of office, Hitler provided him with resources to continue his propaganda.

He calls land speculation "a gross misuse of the power of government" which ought to be abolished by taxation, in order to create prosperity.

This budget is a gross misuse of public money.

Was it not a gross misuse of the term, just because they had been acquainted for a number of years?

"We just keep seeing a gross misuse of funds in a country that has some very pressing problems," Mr. Twala said.