Sentences with phrase «merely as abuse»

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In the end, they turn out to be merely products of a blind evolution and, as such, can be used and abused....

It is admittedly a choice of evils, and admittedly it can be abused, as when resorted to merely as a convenience rather than to escape probable future wretchedness.

Even though we label this abuse «sexual,» it is not merely sexual, since it includes other types of abuse such as emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse as well.

Moving the applications on Friday, Ogungbeje described the new charges as an abuse of court processes, contending that some of the counts bordering on kidnapping were merely a duplication of the ones filed before Justice Oshodi in Ikeja.

As usual, none of the issues raised was answered; instead interested parties merely got some mercenaries to write rejoinders to abuse us.

His mother (Mary Kay Place) pressures him to become a father to the point where she grills him on sexual issues over dinner; his boss (Patrick Warburton) merely uses and abuses him as much as possible, and Duncan's strained relationship with his father (Stephen Root) dominates his life.

The anger went beyond merely distaste for the actor's performances, as many were bothered by the casting of Depp following accusations of abuse by his ex-wife Amber Heard.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

No tension sticks for long enough to make a discernible dramatic impression; queasily, even the subplot concerning an abuse victim in Poppy's class merely serves as a pretext to hook her up with a cute social worker.

No one merely strapped a Go Pro to a stray dog and sat passively by as they were abused and endangered.

This large a change would bring out pitchforks and torches as people realize just how badly they've been used by a small group of scientists and politicians, how much they are the victims of indefensible abuse of statistics to average in the terrible with the merely poor as if they are all equally likely to be true with randomly distributed differences.

While the majority of such cases are «settled» from a legal perspective, outside the courtroom he continues to abuse and control, frequently rationalizing his behavior as merely divorce - related «battle.»

What the NFVS show is that if a child is exposed to the severest forms of violence by parents (e.g. use of knives or guns, kicking, fists), they are l0x more likely to become abusive adults (on their very flawed measure of abusive adult) and if they were merely exposed to «normal» abuse, they are 3 to 6x as likely to be abusive as adults (in their classification).