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Example sentences for: abuse

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"It drives me nuts when people just decide to do whatever they want," said Judge Thornton, who is experienced in the state's thick domestic abuse docket, which produces close to 30,000 emergency protective orders a year.
The Congress recently enacted legislation based in part on GAO's recommendations to strengthen Medicare's safeguards against fraud and abuse.
For alcohol abuse or dependence, CAGE was found most effective with sensitivities of 43% to 94%.
The "Rule of Law" piece, by a former Reagan administration deputy attorney general, argues that "it is time for a sober reassessment of the power we have concentrated in the hands of prosecutors and the alarming absence of effective checks and balances to prevent the widespread abuse of that power."
But as his strangled monosyllables give way to lavish verbal abuse the shots go wider, so that we take in the romantic restaurant awash in fake plants and frippery--a setting that mocks this unhappy couple the way the movie's very title hangs over it like a mushroom cloud.