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Strict agency rules have long required an open bidding process whenever possible to guard against waste, fraud and abuse.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

As an adult running a “high-risk” Christian ministry, Marx says he rescued 45,000 women and children from captivity and abuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

It said that all detainees are held in accordance with the law, with full regard for their basic rights, including medical care, and that complaints or allegations of abuse are investigated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Williams, a domestic abuse survivor and campaigner, was instrumental in introducing the offences into law.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

In his Ring cycle, Wagner tackles the subjects of incest, or the abuse of power, or greed - all pertinent to nineteenth-century Europe - but transports the action to the distant mists of prehistory.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The House Problem Solvers Caucus is pushing for national redistricting standards that could end the worst abuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Davies hopes the documentary raises awareness of the harm caused by hidden spy cameras and reinforces that abuses of privacy and "consent should never be normalised".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

They claimed the technology led to their detention and human-rights abuses in China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

We’re already amply aware that some stars are just so talented that they’re beyond accountability or making amends for previous power abuses that irreparably harmed other people and their careers.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

The housing blogs of southern California teemed with stories of financial abuses made possible by these so-called thirty-year payment option ARMs, or adjustable-rate mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"It is the state that has progressively abused the process."

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Then last month, the monitor claimed Fain abused his power to benefit his fiancée.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Although some cruelty cases already have a mechanism to allow forfeiture of an animal, Haney’s bill seeks to make it easier for abused animals to move on from the shelter system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

"I think we need to anchor it in what the law was intended to do and not the way it has been abused today."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, had accused Google of abusing the popularity of its Android operating system to restrict competition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Anabel Hoult, Which?'s chief executive, said the group wanted to make clear that no company "no matter how powerful, can get away with abusing its position".

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

They contended that the effort was a fraud upon the court, a collusive arrangement abusing the judicial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.

From Slate ● May 29, 2026

A couple of days later, Tom Testo, the director of the Department’s Bureau of Labor Relations, warned us against abusing these powers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover