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Example sentences for: misused

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It worried that because of the numerous prior consultations between FBI agents and prosecutors, the judge might rule that the FISA warrants had been misused.
Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.
The opinion also strengthens Monica Lewinsky's hand, notes George Stephanopoulos ( This Week ), because she can reasonably refuse to give a preview of her testimony, since the opinion holds that Starr misused Hubbell's preview.
In the Willey case, appointment to a federal board and a trip to a conference in Indonesia raise the question of whether the president misused government resources.
Rejecting the political neutrality of the Red Cross, the group is often outspoken about the injustices its members see; the organization was expelled from Ethiopia in 1985, and withdrew from Rwanda in 1994 because aid was being misused.