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Abusing in sentence

80 examples of Abusing in a sentence

I don't mean looking at it from that way, abusing the little species.
And we are abusing this great power we have to be wise stewards, and we're destroying the world.
The other ethnic groups, which did have chiefs, made sure that they surrounded the chiefs with councils upon councils upon councils to prevent them from abusing their power.
Specifically, the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits state governments from abusing its citizens, does not require state governments to intervene when private parties abuse its citizens.
I didn't know he was abusing me.
We're not just saying a man whose friend is abusing his girlfriend needs to stop the guy at the moment of attack.
Quite fast, we started getting very disturbing images about how the settlers and the soldiers are abusing them.
As soon as I say, "We are the powerful people abusing our power now," I get people saying, "Well you must be a racist too."
I also found out later that the director had been physically and sexually abusing the kids.
The law is more important than ever because we are now living in a world where only rules are stopping the government from abusing this information.
In the face of these accusations, she had her teaching license revoked for abusing her position.
This young man posted a video of him abusing his cat on YouTube.
And there's a very strong message in there that when you start abusing your stone, you get taken advantage of by people who will exploit your powers, okay.
There's an early performance by John Ashton as detective Matthews, always raising the ire of Hayes because of his inability to follow directions, not to mention how opinionated he is regarding the parents abusing their kids.
I have little to no interest in seeing another awful movie, that totally lacks anything new creative or funny, abusing the National Lampoon tag.
And those who try to force their views and opinions about something to which they don't belong are really abusing their power.
Wow, even American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance have more adult stuff now than WWE ( at least the auditions has a number of people abusing the judges) and here is WWE, plodding with one of the worst moves in TV history, by changing itself into PG.
First of all the story/script is filled with inaccuracies and downright fantasies and in this way creating almost a completely new story while shamefully abusing Andersen's fairy tales, presumably in order to sell the crap to suckers like me.
It also dealt with a cult of elderly people abusing youthful villagers for their own greedy merits.
To complete the examples we find the pal of the man in the "master-slave"-couple - after collectively abusing her - threatening and humiliating the former "in her sake" for she shall get rid of her partner and take himself as her new "master".
Son: realizes that he has to study harder to pass some important exams (after his folks stood up for him and killed those bullies who've been abusing him all the time).
Is the animal really tearing everyone on its path to pieces or is someone abusing the town's mass-hysteria to satisfy his/her own urge to kill?
This movie will please Lindsay Lohan haters in that we get to see the drug abusing girl get tortured to the greatest extent.
He probably will be strongly criticized for the oral sex scene, on grounds that he is abusing disabled individuals, just like he was almost damned by feminists because of the looong rape scene in Kika.
If more women were like Black Cat men would think twice about abusing them.
His claim that he had the “authority to wiretap anyone” has been disputed by US intelligence officials, but the possibility of a rogue analyst abusing his or her position is real.
As happened recently with one antibiotic, CEOs will say that they are serving shareholders by letting prices rise to whatever the market will bear and abusing intellectual-property rights to extract monopoly rents.
Obama should also apologize for kidnapping Afghans; for holding them at Bagram without due process of law; for forcing them into cages, each reportedly holding up to 30 prisoners; for denying them Red Cross/Red Crescent visits; for illegally confiscating family letters; for torturing and sexually abusing them; and for casting a pall of fear over the country.
The European Commission has charged Google with abusing its near-monopoly over Internet search in the EU to favor its own shopping services.
Second, democracy requires institutions of restraint, such as an independent judiciary and media, to uphold fundamental rights like freedom of speech and prevent governments from abusing their power.
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