(1) The US allows people to be prosecuted for financial misdoings.
Mistreat
Definition:
(v. t.) To treat amiss; to abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(2) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(3) Seven (64%) had been misdiagnosed and mistreated as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis etc.
(4) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
(5) Her Majesty's government will co-operate fully with the police investigations into allegations made by former Libyan detainees about UK involvement in their mistreatment by the Gaddafi regime."
(6) When domestic workers are so systematically denied the basic labour rights afforded to other workers, employers cannot be held accountable for the mistreatment of those working in their households.
(7) Al-Harith was reportedly awarded compensation after claiming that British agents knew he was being mistreated during the time he was held without charge at Guantánamo.
(8) "When, not withstanding any caveats or prior assurances, there is still considered to be a real possibility of mistreatment and therefore there is considered to be a risk that the agencies' actions could be judged to be unlawful, the actions may not be taken without authority at a senior level.
(9) Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK's Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.
(10) Earlier this year, a former prisoner in Sichuan complained that he was beaten by officers after filing anonymous complaints relating to the mistreatment of fellow inmates.
(11) The police have repeatedly said they investigate all reported cases of mistreatment.
(12) Miliband repeatedly states that the government "condemns" torture and does not "condone" torture, but does not address the allegation that the UK was "complicit" in Binyam Mohamed's illegal detention and severe mistreatment.
(13) Surely, thought I naively, my GP has a duty to see that other bits of the NHS don't mistreat me.
(14) The UK government denies that mistreatment was as widespread as alleged.
(15) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
(16) The influx of complaints – mainly from former detainees alleging mistreatment, false imprisonment or UK complicity in rendition – demonstrates, according to the Cabinet Office, why secret court hearings are required.
(17) Civil cases which are currently not heard at all – including cases where mistreatment is alleged – will be able to be fully investigated and scrutinised by the courts.
(18) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
(19) We weren’t given any official explanation only that it was routine procedure but extraofficially police officers told us they said they had been given an order from above.” “There was no physical mistreatment but our group, especially the women, felt intimidated by the constant detentions,” he added.
(20) Of 206 cases of serious child mistreatment brought before a metropolitan juvenile court on Care and Protection Petitions (C & P), 63 (31%) were dismissed (returning the child to the parent(s].