ill-treatment
Example Sentences
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Ms Reynolds' legal team, however, has submitted text messages and photos which they say contradict Ms Higgins' claims of ill-treatment by the senator.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024
At the start of the four-day appeal hearing, Husain said the High Court judges had “failed to scrutinize” British government assurances that people sent to Rwanda would not suffer ill-treatment.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023
"I wanted to tell stories about queer joy, about bravery, about those of us who are braving... prejudice and ill-treatment to still be able to show up as ourselves," they said from their Johannesburg apartment.
From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2023
He had an eye for the telling fact: “Between 1800 and 1835 Parliament debated no less than 11 bills seeking to make the deliberate ill-treatment of animals unlawful; all failed, mostly by narrow margins.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023
It turned out, however, that Blackavar, when not crushed by humiliation and ill-treatment, was a good cut above the ordinary.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
