Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution – whoever is responsible.
Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won’t challenge unfit parents.
The younger folks, the Gen Z-ers and millennials, might abuse their skin a little bit, and because they’re so young they aren’t intentionally taking care of their skin to protect it in the long run.
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
As you know, I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. And while I’m abroad on training camp, I train three times a day, often for two hours a time, and I haven’t got time to respond to all the people that ask questions.
With the abuse, and wear and tear the body takes in this career, it’s ridiculous to put in that time and effort and have nothing to show for it.
I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It’s mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.
I regard affirmative action as pernicious – a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.
We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
If anything happens to me, it wouldn’t affect me like it would if my family had been abused.
Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It’s hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.
People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There’s a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.
Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
Because I’m just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there’s still a price to pay.
It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
I have become so strong now that rumors, abuses or trolls don’t bother me anymore.
I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an ‘X Factor’ winner because I owe everything to this thing.
As a band, we just don’t tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.
The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can’t just abuse it.
I’m a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it’s something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.
As adults, we have a legal and moral obligation to stand up and speak out for children who are being abused – they cannot speak for themselves.
People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.
If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is being said by somebody who has good intentions and has maybe a comedic lack of awareness, then you can get away with a little bit more.
There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom ‘Good Times.’ My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn’t want to do the show. I didn’t want to be away from my family.
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.
A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that’s a fact.
If you’re gay, that doesn’t mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don’t want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
I will never, ever support a law that could clearly lead to an abuse of power just because of some lip service assuring me that it won’t be used that way. To me, that’s not enough.
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term ‘muppets’ has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I’ve adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients’ best interests.
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.
I’ve never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, ‘You’re quite good’ – though they can’t bear to go, ‘You’re great.’
If a woman comes out saying she has been abused or assaulted, we should not start finding flaws in her character or try to dig up her past for murky details.
I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.
I don’t think there are many people out there – except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better – who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
If you’re a fat person – and especially if you’re a woman – at all stages of your life you’ll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it – that defuses any tension.
Judge Aquilina did what Michigan State University officials, USA Gymnastics, and the Karoyli ranch officials did not: Immediately believed the women who had been abused, validated their lives, and ended their perpetrator’s access to them and other victims.
Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
The government doesn’t really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I’d really heard about polygamists.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
We need to root out the waste and abuse that is rampant in our state agencies. When we do that and grow the economy, we will be able to fund the vital programs and services we need.
