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And, to be fair, rules are often imposed because previous officials have been lax and they let a child go back to an abusive household.
The turning point came when I fell into an emotionally abusive relationship just a few years ago.
And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.
Wasteful: abusive and focused on labor productivity.
In the new industrial revolution extractive must be replaced by renewable; linear by cyclical; fossil fuel energy by renewable energy, sunlight; wasteful by waste-free; and abusive by benign; and labor productivity by resource productivity.
Martin Luther King said that love without power is anemic and sentimental, and that power without love is reckless and abusive.
Ill-tempered, verbally abusive movie studio chief runs his male assistant ragged with nit-picking requests, keeping the young man firmly under his thumb with constant threats of unemployment; after a year of office-terror, the working stiff finally cracks.
Tim Taylor is an abusive acholoic drug addict.
straight woman becomes a lesbian while concluding that her husband is abusive and aggressive).
The story is about a psychic woman, Tory, who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past (the death of her childhood friend and abusive father).
The east German army was known for its abusive and humiliating service of its conscripted men, and the comedy was basically not filmed on the facilities or with the equipment to make a good movie of the east German army and their time now gone by.
When Mary Elizabeth gets pregnant, her stressed and abusive sister Catherine (Denise Crosby) does not believe that she is virgin, but their father and former obstetrician Albert Martino (James Callahan) examines his daughter and sees her intact hymen.
On a serious note, I'm sure these films, whether abusive parents saw them or no, did wonders for the red-headed children of America.
A woman preparing for a violent confrontation with her abusive father is later seen working in a hospital room where another woman is preparing for a mastectomy.
I also have been a wife of an abusive husband, even if in my situation the attacks were psychological, not physical.
He does fall for a beautiful rich girl named Juliet ( Jane Jenson) whom is also troubled as her father is being quite an abusive son of a you know what, but as our title characters meet and fall for each other things start becoming quite magical for them.
Jane Silla)(famous radio and tv actress in the 30's and 40's played mostly small town MOM'S) warned the ladies about Ronnie Mason's sick mind, and the abusive childhood he had when growing up, which caused his love/hate relationship with women.
Soon after the family settles in, their mom marries "The King" who ends up being an abusive stepfather, especially to Bobby.
This was very short lived because the viewer later discovers (after Sergei locks Vera's father in a bathroom and Vera lets him out after which the father proceeds to stab Sergei) that he is abusive.
He lives with an abusive Neanderthal mother (Ramsey) and has visions of poisoning her, sticking a scissors in her head - you name it.
On the road, she becomes entangled with Caan, brain-damaged former football star, and Duvall, wacky but abusive cop.
The story of Emily Waters, once a girl from a broken home, whose only means of escape from an abusive father was through her sketchbook.
Between Minnie, a disillusioned museum curator whose abusive married boyfriend dumps her and leaves her even more uptight and confused than she already was, and Seymour Moskowitz, a parking attendant so desperate for attention that he spends his nights going to bars and restaurants aggravating people, there is a chaotic and disenchanted match from the start.
He spat on dealers, stiffed people he owed money to, and was verbally abusive.
I believed her completely, possibly because I've known and admired several "tough broads" who survived similar abusive situations.
This story is an excellent tale of two boys that do whatever they can to get away from there abusive drunkard father.
It explores relationships, especially the abusive ones, has some powerful as well as sweet moments and great acting.
The actual members of the Lafayette Escadrille were not on the run from the law nor were they the products of abusive homes, they were in reality idealists who wanted to do something to help France.
Chris (Linda Blair) is stuck in there after running away from her abusive father.
Bo Derek plays Jane Parker who sets off into turn-of-the century Africa to be reunited with her boozy, abusive Dad, Richard Harris.
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