(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(3) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(4) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(5) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(6) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(7) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(8) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(9) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(10) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(11) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(12) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(13) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(14) Its abuse has become concentrated among post-high school age, black males in a limited number of cities, especially Washington, DC.
(15) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
(16) A thorough nursing assessment is essential to detect and correct drug misuse and to diagnose drug abuse.
(17) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(18) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(19) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(20) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
Crawler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The landmark move, widely rumoured after Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 received only middling reviews and picked up a franchise-worst box-office haul last year, also looks likely to mean the instalment of a new actor as the masked wall crawler.
(2) "The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb," he noted earlier this year , as Facebook prepared its flotation.
(3) Relative to the performance of crawlers, noncrawlers showed lower average and subtest-specific performance on selected measures of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers.
(4) Creepers with a dissociated pattern of learning to sit and crawlers with muscular hypotonia were found to have an increased risk for later handicap.
(5) But Western countries have been slow to adopt this trend , with television shows like “Fear Factor” reliably triggering disgust in viewers by feeding squirming creepy crawlers live to contestants.
(6) The fliers showed higher superoxide dismutase and catalase activities and glutathione concentration than crawlers, whereas, the amount of inorganic peroxides (H2O2) and TBA-reactants was higher in the crawlers than in fliers.
(7) All houseflies lose flying ability prior to death, whereby, in an aging population, shorter-lived flies can be identified as flightless 'crawlers' from their longer-lived cohorts, the 'fliers'; the average lifespan of crawlers is about one-third shorter than the fliers.
(8) Life expectancy of crawlers is about one-third shorter than that of the fliers.
(9) The children of each type were divided into two groups according to the ability of locomotion at the age of 4 years; S- I: 6 walkers, S- II: 9 crawler, A- I: 11 walkers and A- II: 10 crawler.
(10) Neither crawlers nor fliers exhibited any physical damage to their chemoreceptive tarsi, thereby ruling out starvation as a probable cause of death.
(11) I don’t want this, I have the abilities to work, why are they taking my job away?” Former detective superintendent Alan Caton, who led Ipswich’s response to the murders of five women who worked as prostitutes in 2006, emphasised a different approach, that police had successfully operated a “zero tolerance” approach to sex work after the murders – cracking down on kerb crawlers, while not prosecuting women.
(12) "For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers.
(13) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
(14) A third study found that the quality of locomotion affected object permanence performance: Belly crawlers performed differently than infants with hands-and-knees or walker experience, insofar as they performed at prelocomotor levels regardless of weeks of locomotor experience.
(15) Webroot's Phileas web crawler has catalogued nearly 90,000 web pages that might be able to download malware on to PCs, often using exploits (security holes) to sneak their payloads into your web browser.
(16) A higher percentage in the index group were late crawlers (greater than 10 months), but similar proportions in both groups were bottom-shufflers or simply stood up and walked.
(17) Patterns of exploration varied with the information presented and differed for crawlers and walkers in the case of a deformable surface, as an affordance theory would predict.
(18) Compared with the standard, the deforming surface elicited longer latency, more exploratory behavior, and more displacement in walkers, but not in crawlers, suggesting that typical mode of locomotion influences perceived traversability.
(19) Actomyosin ATPase activity was higher in the fliers than in the crawlers of the same age.
(20) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.