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Example sentences for "abuses"

Lexicographically close words:
abus; abuse; abused; abuser; abusers; abuseth; abusing; abusive; abusively; abut
  1. Are the abuses of parentage chargeable upon the relationship of parent and child?

  2. The South is willing to have the abuses of irresponsible power among them compared with abuses, discomforts, disadvantages elsewhere.

  3. If, in the course of events, it is found by good men that the abuses flowing from such power are inevitable, that legislative enactments and public opinion cannot control the relation, their consciences will not be quiet till it is abolished.

  4. Not until he had placed his signature to each one of the acts passed for the relief of the people and correction of the existing abuses would Bacon permit him to stir a step.

  5. Two years later we find the inhabitants complaining to the king that the new scheme was working very badly, and giving rise to serious "abuses and malversations.

  6. The Jesuits accused them of tolerating grave abuses in the household of the governor, who had a Recollet, Father Maupassant, for confessor; but, as M.

  7. Rational logic can point to the abuses to be destroyed, but to move the multitude its hopes must be awakened.

  8. Modest in its beginnings, it was at first a simple struggle against the abuses of the clergy, and, from a practical point of view, a return to the prescriptions of the Gospel.

  9. At the theatre it applauded plays which criticised privileges, the arbitrariness and the incapacity of men in high places, and abuses of all kinds.

  10. In each case there was a reaction against the forms and abuses of the ancient canonical and ecclesiastical systems; while at the same time the innovations were in a measure sustained by appeal to the Levitical code.

  11. And undoubtedly our sexual abuses are shameful, and shameful also is the barbaric tolerance of the masses regarding prostitution, seduction, illegitimacy and the abandonment of new-born children.

  12. Misconduct in class, frequent fits of anger, during which he abuses everyone and strikes his smaller comrades.

  13. We are willing to acknowledge that these abuses have been practised ever since the unholy alliance between church and state; but they were certainly carried to a greater extent in the last two reigns than previously known.

  14. Hence we may give a plausible reason, among others, why all governments are at first monarchical, without any mixture and variety; and why republics arise only from the abuses of monarchy and despotic power.

  15. The festivities which appeal to young people are all money-making enterprises, with the abuses likely to result under such conditions.

  16. Abuses such as this are generated by the fact that aldermen and constables obtain fees out of the fines, which makes it to the financial interest of these officials to get as many cases into court as possible.

  17. But even if the most flagrant abuses are now infrequent and if some of the aldermen are of unquestionable character, the system is wrong and the foreigner is its most grievous sufferer.

  18. But abuses having grown out of this practice, the statute authorized the lord chancellor to appoint a commission for the trial of insurance cases; and in the reign of Charles II.

  19. Life insurances have been forbidden by the laws of France and of many other foreign states, as being of a gambling nature, and opening the door to a variety of abuses and frauds.

  20. He conciliated the common people in a hundred ways--by wise legislation, by the reformation of abuses which pressed hardly upon them, and sometimes by the oppression of the nobles in the interest of the lower classes.

  21. Ordinances were needed to correct the abuses covered by the title of scholar.

  22. But the Parlement stood firm, declared itself the guardian of the public and private weal, claiming even to reform abuses and to discuss and vote on schemes of taxation.

  23. The occasion of these words of the Apostle Paul, was because of the abuses which were in the Church of Corinth.

  24. Nor were complaints limited to Italy; provincial abuses had already called for drastic remedies.

  25. The senate also permitted Drusus to propose a law for the protection of the Latins, which should prove that the worst abuses on which Gracchus dwelt might be removed without the gift of the franchise.

  26. I know no abuses of precious inheritance half so grievous, as the abuse of all that is best in art wherever the Romanist priesthood gets possession of it.

  27. The Wahabi leaven has destroyed abuses and has rekindled a purer religious faith.

  28. Wahabism aimed not merely at a reform of religious abuses but was also a general protest against the contemporary decadence of Moslem society.

  29. Unless these elements can be supplied, there is danger of suffering and of abuses worse than any the West has known.

  30. Abuses were remedied, reforms effected, while the national tendency towards Republicanism strengthened the ultra-Liberal party, to whom the old-time Absolutists allied themselves.

  31. Very soon, however, it became evident that the abuses of authority encouraged by him were becoming even more violent than those of the previous régime, and that the military despotism was even more accentuated.

  32. Long even after the passing of the pioneer conquistadores the methods of the Spanish Court encouraged abuses of authority and many acts of tyranny.

  33. Having presented the dark side of the picture in faithfully recording the abuses that had prevailed, it is right to give Mr. Trevelyan's testimony as to the conduct of the relief committees during this supreme hour of the nation's agony.

  34. Professor James believed that some abuses had been rectified.

  35. Vivisection has been objected to not theoretically or sentimentally simply, but on account of the monstrous abuses that have been associated with it.

  36. But the old abuses have not disappeared, and some of them, more urgently than ever before, demand the attention of thinking men and women.

  37. Bigelow's opinions, have cut out every reference to the abuses of vivisection?

  38. The abuses and cruelties on the Continent, against which it had so vigorously protested, continued as before.

  39. They have succeeded, however, in keeping the subject before the world in making known the abuses of the practice and voicing a condemnation of its cruelties wherever discerned.

  40. Walker, would interfere with the progress of science; they would simply stop the abuses which existed.

  41. L'Abeille Me'dicale says: "`I am quite of you opinion as to the enormous abuses practised at the present day in the matter of vivisection.

  42. The book discusses what vivisection is, and what have been the mistakes and abuses done in its name, as well as the present unhappy conditions which surround the practice.

  43. Walker declared that his desire was not to stop scientific research, but the abuses which were connected with it.

  44. Markham freely admitted the prevalence of abuses to which it was liable when carried on without regulation or restraint.

  45. He presently brought forward in the House of Commons a motion with reference to the abuses in the navy, the only result of which was that he was at once ordered to join the Impérieuse.

  46. He ruined his career in our navy, and created for himself a host of bitter enemies by his crusade against the enormous abuses of our naval administration, and by the ardour with which he championed the cause of reform at home.

  47. Abuses and foolish expenses had been multiplied under his rule, and there were the most valid reasons for getting rid of him; but, on the other hand, he had one of the prettiest and least strict wives at court.

  48. A portion of the woes of Denmark evidently resulted from these old institutions; and many of the abuses would have sprung up without the interference of foreigners.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.