The phrase
"appalling abuse" refers to extremely bad or cruel behavior towards someone, which is shocking and unacceptable.
Full definition
Finally, under pressure from the groups, the USDA's inspector general looked into enforcement of the rules governing dog breeding, finding
appalling abuses of dogs and deficient exercise of authority by USDA where it had authority.
It seems as if the British system is relatively rape - free, but then that's what they said about the American system until they investigated it and found the
most appalling abuse underneath the officially - enforced silence.
Due to pressure from The HSUS and DDAL, the USDA's inspector general looked into enforcement of the rules governing dog breeding,
finding appalling abuses of the dogs, deficient exercise of authority by USDA where it had authority, and identification of this glaring gap in the law that allowed Internet sellers to evade any federal oversight whatever.
It's a knee - jerk reaction to a TV program, the Four Corners report
documenting appalling abuse in a juvenile detention facility in the NT.
The economic boom resulting from the extraction of rubber by European colonizers in the Amazon basin — primarily in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru — was a catalyst for horrific and
appalling abuses of indigenous peoples, many of whom became slaves to the rubber barons.
To accentuate the positive; Ed Miliband has asked Peter Hain to oversee Labour's future policy review and top down, command and control party structure; Ray Collins, whose tenure as General Secretary has coincided with
some appalling abuses of party democracy, is off to the House of Lords, and Ed Miliband has returned sharp, and fresh to give David Cameron a good needling in the Commons.
«It is
an appalling abuse of the democratic process,» said longtime judicial delegate Alan Flacks.
This is
an appalling abuse, and Congressman Tom Perriello deserves great credit for seeing through it and casting a vote that will create clean energy jobs in Virginia and throughout the United States.
As a final note, if you think that threatening unjustifiable UK libel suits against valid criticism is
an appalling abuse, feel free to let Bill Hughes know (but please be polite), and add your support to the Campaign for libel reform in the UK which looks to be making great headway.
«Adult men asking 14 - year - olds to send sexual images is not only against the law, [but] it is completely wrong and
an appalling abuse and exploitation of children,» Cooper told The Times.
Adult men asking 14 - year - olds to send sexual images is not only against the law, it is completely wrong and
an appalling abuse and exploitation of children.