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1. Other psychological factors, including depression, lowered self-esteem associated with overall loss of physical strength and the onset of physical signs of aging, anxiety, and substance abuse can all contribute to male impotence
2. Men are more likely than women to respond to stressful experiences by developing certain stress-related disorders, including hypertension, aggressive behavior, or abuse of alcohol, or hard drugs
3. The fantastic creatures in Maya carvings that could only have come from serious drug abuse ate you in the wilds on this planet
4. Several people thought I should make a scene and throw abuse at them both, but I hate that sort of thing
5. "She's told me why you're jealous of her on the ground," Herndon retorted, "so I pity you and will take this abuse from you
6. The Brazilians maintained that the horrors were real: genetically modified people; eternal mortal youth without hope of, or belief in, the afterlife; rampant drug abuse and promiscuity; all ruled by a secret cabal of ancient evil scientists called the Kassikan
7. Vinegar: It bodes nothing good; if it is red, someone will abuse you; if it is white, a friend of yours will have an accident; if you drink vinegar, you will have a bad quarrel with a family member or a colleague at work
8. but the family you love, you seem to abuse
9. Many of our churches that practice the Spiritual gifts abuse them
10. and so begins the court case, the screams of abuse,
11. the horns of abuse and the unadulterated ordinariness
12. During the great wars with the insane ones, she was a victim of terrible, terrible abuse
13. The only saving grace was that the headlines painted a picture of a plucky citizen coming to the aid of a poor victim of racial abuse
14. one loves to the point of receiving verbal, emotional, and, sadly, physical abuse
15. Helen collapsed onto the kitchen floor in a haze of adrenalin and alcoholic abuse
16. For example, an incident of childhood sexual abuse may have created a strong fear response that flares up whenever you attempt to form an intimate relationship as an adult
17. Exploring the pain, guilt, shame, and anger relating to the sexual abuse can help greatly in purging those old
18. One of the women is screaming abuse at the officer sitting taking prints … for a moment I can’t see who it is, then the group divides … Joan
19. citizen coming to the aid of a poor victim of racial abuse
20. Why? For most part because of abuse at the hand of
21. Two years after Joanne was married, the abuse began
22. As the abuse increased in her marriage, her subconscious
23. to protect her heart from Nick’s abuse?
24. could tolerate this kind of abuse? And why should she
25. Heart-Walls can lead to depression, divorce, and abuse
26. The patterns of abuse that are created can pass from
27. saved, abuse stopped, and lives turned around
28. the next are partially to blame for generational abuse
29. The police have reported false abuse of their selves to give right to their power
30. Police abuse is to be reported to the appropriate authorities: the PEOPLE
31. energy abuse and is not a loving thing to do to yourself
32. I do remember a show recently where the news anchorwoman was taking small tidbits and building a strong case of child abuse when, in fact, there was a tremendous amount of love and caring happening
33. “Use me but don’t abuse me and leave at least a twenty spot on the night stand in the morning
34. To many people, he is wonderful, and it's my misfortune to be the only person he wishes to abuse
35. This man, her new lover and benefactor, is distinctly odd, too familiar with death, impassive in the presence of abuse, but he is still a man
36. She sees no point in having an open mic night without audience abuse
37. Rising up from behind a wall of sound, standing tall on ramparts of abuse, the comic spots the boy and goes for the obvious put downs
38. What am I to do? I'm seven months pregnant; I don't know how to have a baby or be a mother; I can't tolerate the beatings or the cruel abuse
39. He has enough experience of personal misdirection and abuse to write a graphically illustrated encyclopaedia
40. Stubbins opened her mouth as if to rebut Mandy's observations, but being without any other ammunition than her own myopic prejudice, ignorance, and baseless claims to superiority, snapped her jaw tight, turned on her heel and waddled back to her store, wagging her head as if in heated abuse of some mutton-headed underling
41. ‘But neither of you tried to stop the abuse of this woman?’ Williams asked, his eyes hooded and expressionless
42. Small children do sometimes work out ways of coping with abuse, methods of mentally escaping from the physical world
43. Somehow she managed to instil the last few words with a meaning which reduced the conviction of her brother for child abuse, the deaths of two men and a woman, and the resultant comatose state of her daughter to an event which was purely and simply intended as a disruption of her life
44. concern over this latest abuse against the Church
45. After all he went through, all that training and abuse, he
46. He says the planet’s lousy with drinking and drug abuse
47. Much needs to be done in preventing sexual abuse of children and teens
48. These suggestions are for all types of child abuse issues
49. Physical abuse is characterized by beating, hitting, punching, biting, burning,
50. Abuse violates the freedom of the child
1. Some of his work is very upsetting – children being abused … wives being beaten … I’ve never worked out if it is worse for him having to defend the aggressors or to prosecute them … either way, he has to delve far too deeply into people’s lives
2. Most of the passengers were herded onto an old bus whereas my bit of the queue, and by that I mean myself and an older man carrying a huge cabbage, was cramped inside the rear of a much abused and dented van which was to be our very own shuttle up the mountain to Sophia
3. Whether one is overtaken by the lies of whatever religion in which they are immersed, or if they have a valid mental illness, or if someone was abused by their father as a child -- it all comes down to the same thing
4. a stressful world all chemicals are not used but abused
5. “I think I should never have abused her
6. Have you ever been abused or beaten in your lifetime?”
7. After that I was abused and isolated and I never considered it again
8. ‘It seems likely that she was abused as a child
9. ‘I feel you ought to know that Chrissie has been ill treated, abused in the last few weeks
10. Children who have been abused may display:
11. Let me start with my “feelings” about being abused
12. abused, the sheer terror of just surviving till the next day?
13. You abused me emotionally and physically
14. As an abused child, others placed me in this box
15. It is natural for those who are abused to become abusers, but Jesus wisely advised us to turn the other cheek
16. Of two or three hundred weight of provisions, which may sometimes be served up at a great festival, one half, perhaps, is thrown to the dunghill, and there is always a great deal wasted and abused
17. Eventually, the abused girl managed to run through a gap between two of the girls, crying profusely as she was escaping
18. From being raped and abused by Kleon's sleazy men, to being rescued by a rough soldier looking for his wife, to extracting information from a drug dealer
19. "She took her own life because of all of you! The school wouldn’t help her when she turned to someone for help!" she turned back to the crowd, now noticing the four girls who abused Rosabell, grouped together at the right side of the crowd
20. In its own nature it is just as advantageous as any other, though, perhaps, somewhat more liable to be abused
21. It is advantageous to the great body of workmen, notwithstanding, that all these trades should be free, though this freedom may be abused in all of them, and is more likely to be so, perhaps, in some than in others
22. That bounties upon exportation have been abused, to many fraudulent purposes, is very well known
23. The Elf continued; “We must discover only the verity of three things---besides the nagging discordant changes in their command structures---from this particular collection of vermin: Do they pester only select systems; if so which ones? Are their conscripts abetting them willingly or are they truly abused into service? And most importantly: How many more gangs like this are there out there? I realize that last bit of data may be the most slippery to determine
24. Senta made it up through the most wretched of the lower decks and stumbled up into what had to be the less abused conscripts' 'dormitories
25. Poor child, you were abused
26. But I abused others because I was abused
27. Fear of releasing one’s guard is especially common among victims of trauma, such as abused women and children, and veterans with PTSD
28. had the air of a dishevelled and mildly abused
29. Animals who have been abandoned, especially those who’ve been abused, as we suspect Autumn had been, are often the sweetest, so relieved to have found steady love that they give theirs freely
30. The same does not hold for humans, which is why the excuse that an abusive adult was abused as a young child will not do
31. I came round and tried to move but I cried out in pain the whole of my body felt abused I tried feeling down myself to check for injuries but apart from feeling as though a mule had kicked the shit out of me I didn’t seem to have any serious injuries
32. Nixon abused the power of the IRS no more than did JFK or LBJ
33. This much abused word should be understood as rational self-interest, not as absolutely neglecting the rights of others
34. Africans support a winner and a hand wringing fool who is easily parted with his money for decades is really not seen as a winner but an idiot to be abused
35. This is one argument you cannot win for if you know or suspect you aid money is stolen or let us be nice and say abused then why do you not rectify the situation as any honourable man will do? Your lack of action in this regard means two things to us
36. What is the worst what can happen when you get this aspect of abused aid under control? When you say "right guys, from now on no money unless
37. It is in the nature of criminals to complain to their longhaired liberal lawyers that they have been abused by the police
38. It was really difficult for us to communicate properly and sometimes the criminals abused our lack of language skills
39. Many a genuine couple were abused in this way
40. As long as the Queen is happy the Englishman was pretty fair in his worldview, which is often abused these days, but that’s another whole topic
41. Therefore I made sure to look away when we were injected and abused
42. One cadet abused this rule by deliberately fooling around until the PT Instructor stepped in to sort him out
43. ) And if you shot someone at too close a range it would leave powder marks on his clothing and/or body, leading to the courtroom scenario: “Please explain to the court why you executed the poor serial killer whose human rights you have cruelly abused in doing so
44. It is always amazing to me to see how the volunteer workers are abused into miserable conditions whilst the fat cats sit in their luxury offices at home
45. There is of course a big element of truth in this statement and it is indeed abused sometimes
46. We lived for car chases but it was not something to be abused
47. The Van Rooyens did not look like paedophiles but then what do paedophiles look like? It is a fact by the way that most abused children are abused by a family member or friend
48. This gave us a lot of power which we used (note, not abused) to great effect
49. Unrecognised and much abused everywhere, and Apartheid described as “a crime against humanity” which indeed it was
50. This was seriously abused by the Liberation Movements and let me explain this statement
1. A blackmailer takes what is evil and uses and abuses it against his or her
2. He's not hurting anyone else, or is he? Did you know that the only time he abuses me is when he's drunk? Did you know he had a drinking problem? Or is that something a man can shut off at the front door of the office?
3. The abuses interfere with normal functioning and create
4. When the abuses were too much to bear
5. This scheme of making the administration of justice subservient to the purposes of revenue, could scarce fail to be productive of several very gross abuses
6. That such abuses were far from being uncommon, the ancient history of every country in Europe bears witness
7. In Great Britain, the abuses which the trustees have committed in the management of those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of
8. The abuses which sometimes creep into the local and provincial administration of a local and provincial revenue, how enormous soever they may appear, are in reality, however, almost always very trifling in comparison of those which commonly take place in the administration and expenditure of the revenue of a great empire
9. Those abuses gave occasion to the act of the 26th of George II
10. The officers of excise receive few or no perquisites ; and the administration of that branch of the revenue being of more recent establishment, is in general less corrupted than that of the customs, into which length of time has introduced and authorised many abuses
11. The Western news networks gave prominence to any incident of human rights abuses
12. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods
13. Listen to me! If your husband or boyfriend abuses you, please wake-up and make an end to that relationship for he will not change, and no, he is not sick
14. There is not a war or insurgency in history where human rights abuses do not occur from both sides
15. Carter‘s endlessly quixotic ―peacekeeping‖ overtures to autocratic regimes throughout the Third World in a transparent attempt at redeeming his failed presidency; this is not to imply, however, that our ex-president does not (otherwise) share a certain sympathy with such leaders as evidenced by his fawning indifference to human and civil rights abuses routinely evident in many of those countries
16. Suharto did eventually get overthrown by an Indonesian public fed up with enormous cronyism, government corruption, human rights abuses, and lack of democracy
17. Already convinced of widespread corruption within the Samoza government, international reporters gave wide coverage to the conflict and abuses of civil rights by security forces
18. Particularly had Johnson's impeachment been earlier over his actual abuses of power, the precedent would have made it more difficult to use impeachment for such utterly frivolous and absurd cases as impeaching Clinton for lying about oral sex, or downright surreal and delusional birth certificate theories about Obama
19. and pains, disappointments and abuses; but even with all of the bad
20. was making me go through these abuses, living in a state of near pov-
21. “If you’re worried about Buffo, he abuses me more than he does you
22. replicated these abuses
23. When someone verbally abuses us, for example, we could muse: "I wouldn't be suffering this harm now, if I hadn't abused someone similarly in the past
24. investigation had found abuses of the pension and insurance plans,
25. wracked with spending abuses, nepotism and money was improperly
26. with complaints or raised concerns about abuses was quietly shuffled aside
27. Her audit found sweeping management abuses when the RCMP's human
28. ABUSES SAME SHAKTI WHEN SHE IS BORN AS A DAUGHTER
29. resigned in 1996, claiming wholesale abuses inside the Branch, and continues to
30. page and capping his pictures at two per page only raise questions about what prior abuses had occurred
31. sampling of some of its worst abuses: $18
32. Almendral, the GC and my boss, had expressly directed me to stop these abuses as soon as possible
33. All abuses, real and imagined, were fair game
34. Everything serves only to introduce new abuses without correcting the old
35. Abuses of children and women
36. Free of abuses of women
37. ineffectual and for the most times, art and part of the animal abuses
38. ‘ It is time the global community called attention to Bulgaria‘s animal abuses, so
39. discussed the uses and abuses of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
40. of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
41. and the list of abuses started increasing every time Tobias found a
42. accusations and abuses frequently without provocation
43. Rochelle, who had suffered too numerous abuses to count, she
44. out of her misery and would never have to suffer his abuses again
45. But one of the crucial aspects of MVP discussions – which are typically interactive and animated – is that focusing on specific cases of abuse can often lead to open, wide-ranging discussions about masculinity, gender relations, abuses of power and conformist behavior
46. Painful memories of past sexual, physical or emotional abuses can be a cause of low sexual desire in your partner, see above topic titled ‘Abuse as a child; sexual, physical, or emotional’ for more detail
47. She remembered some of the abuses she had suffered at the hands of Hu Lyang, vowing to find a way to escape and destroy him
48. Often man creates things (through abuses of the free will) that are contrary to this plan
49. When these abuses first started, Jesus indicated to John, by a nod of his head, that he should retire
50. “With that Tom, it could have been anybody here, because he verbally abuses and threatens all of us
1. They were also yelling at her and abusing my mother on the phone, telling her what a mistake it was and what a mistake I was in so many words
2. She thought he was accusing her of abusing her power again
3. I don't care for his abusing alcohol, or his abusing you, but like I said, he's not that way with me
4. Tdeshi’s soul had been abusing this body, Ava had merely been neglecting it
5. ‘Donovan … Oh, yes, wasn’t he the one who tried to abduct a kid from a playground? Had been abusing young girls for decades?’ Jarvis said, trawling his memory for the information
6. ‘Not to mention the fact that the media will doubtless be interested to hear that her uncle is currently in prison for abusing young girls – they’re likely to want to find a link somewhere
7. ‘Her uncle’s Alfred Donovan – he was found guilty of abusing little girls last year … don’t know if you saw the reports in the paper
8. ‘That would be Alfred Donovan? Convicted of abusing little girls last year, I believe
9. Clearly, it left her self-confidence in tatters and her belief in people destroyed; poor Anna, it must be devastating to find the one person you ought to be able to trust abusing that trust
10. Again I can only guess that his decision was not to live in my house because I have not seen or heard from him or Pat about him for a week; so once again I was stood up at the altar by another student abusing me and getting my hopes up that I would get a student
11. He had no problem physically abusing any of the students
12. She had never told him how much greater and she never admitted to ever abusing it
13. Then why are we to allow this? Stop abusing yourself and then you will stop with others
14. In such a situation, he would have no occasion to give himself any concern about them, further than to keep the peace among them, in the same manner as among the rest of his subjects, that is, to hinder them from persecuting, abusing, or oppressing one another
15. America"s thirty-seventh President, forced to resign in August, 1974, or face impeachment for abusing the powers of his office
16. He knew he should be angry with Millicent for abusing him so viciously in front of all these people, but he could only think of how he deserved it
17. Yet the SAP was condemned by the TRC as something evil, something within which there existed human rights abusing culture
18. And they gave good lip service to the communists too whilst abusing their assistance, yes, but afterwards? Not so much, there is no communist regime in the new South Africa
19. There were claims that Koresh was abusing children, marrying himself illegally to underage brides as young as twelve
20. Only eleven US soldiers were convicted for abusing prisoners, mostly those low level guards at Abu Ghraib who foolishly took photos of their abuse
21. He’d recognised the man abusing his daughter
22. Edgar was busily washing his hands when Michael, together with several friends dressed in black leather, entered and began abusing him for his height and the chamarra he wore
23. �Fifteen years ago, he was a Sunday School teacher in Peekskill, New York, and he was accused of sexually abusing some young girls
24. At some time in the hours before he was killed, he had met Ted Bullock and accused him of sexually abusing Vickie
25. “So when Mia started to stir things up again, and then Langdon came around and told you that he had you cold for sexually abusing Vickie, you had to act to protect yourself and your wife, right?”
26. Both of those guys had been sexually abusing the kid for years
27. “Daughter!” Zoran tried for the sternness that would fall just short of abusing her young sensibilities
28. was so frustrated and angered that he started abusing the Lord
29. He was told to leave there after a few weeks for not letting the housekeeper into the room to clean it, and then typical Adam, abusing her when he did let her in
30. ” Or, as the Catholic magazine Tablet sees it, “The problem is not the abusing priests’
31. With so many apparently sexually twisted individuals in the RCMP, abusing female
32. “In February 2008, the presiding judge ruled that these lawyers have been abusing the
33. ABUSING DAUGHTERS IN HOUSE WHAT IS ALL THIS
34. ABUSING HER VERY ESSENCE
35. ABUSING HER IN YOUR WOMB, IN YOUR HOUSE AS YOU
36. ONE YOU ARE ABUSING IS JUST HER,THEN HOW SHE WILL
37. I firmly believed then and now that I was fired in retaliation for trying to upset Hottman’s and Hansen’s apple carts regarding the secret 200 and 300 series accounts that they had been abusing for the previous several years, without oversight from Contracts or the Director, until my arrival
38. My dad integrated his reasons for abusing me into every aspect
39. He was said to be highly favored by the old Pharaoh until he killed one of those Egyptian overseers who was abusing a Hebrew work crew
40. entire army! Will you give heed to him? As you can see, he is much too fearful to be abusing
41. to realize the possibility of abusing its own power
42. Listen up people: Jay has been abusing an over the counter drug that is not illegal for the past 10 or so years straight
43. Listen up people: Jay has been abusing an over the counter drug that is not illegal
44. this guy got some major jollies out of mentally abusing the poor kid he now inhabited
45. the nanny was abusing me
46. abusing her physically and sexually, she was begging him to stop
47. ‗But the money was gained by abusing and killing young men! I don‘t want it
48. No alcoholic has ever shaken off the fuzz of abusing their body to find they have acquired a TV show, a million pound piece of property, and a group of friends
49. Karim’s parents received an extraordinary letter from Nikelseer abusing the boy for over-stepping the mark, but no one would believe that was sufficient motive for murder
50. spiritual, in his frustration, started verbally abusing me to