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"ill-used" Definitions
  1. badly treated; badly used

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STAN I'm sorry that "ill-used" was your go-to feeling, Stan.
Comey was ill-used by Trump, who not only fired him but also sought to
Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) used the report to call for the NPS to reinstate Obama's policy.
To him, it meant that depositor money was being ill used and the institution was bound for insolvency.
But editors generally use a particular photo to symbolize the city: the gorgeous but abandoned and ill-used Central Depot.
Why she balked at the garage door or ill-used the onions she did not ask, because the answer was a given.
She ascertained that Jacqueline believed her mother was ill used by her father, who forced the family to move often, by air.
" Making the case that we should at least consider it, Fels describes lithium as "the Cinderella of psychotropic medications, neglected and ill used.
This young woman who had been so ill-used by her country, a woman who stood up and fought anyway, would never be fully healed.
But "Boss" trowels on the clown white, strenuously reaching for nonexistent yuks instead of trusting in the talent of its likable but ill-used cast.
Women can cheer for their hero without thinking too much about how ill-used they are throughout the film, and men can rest assured that they're watching a feminist film.
The eccentric neighbors and household staff are portrayed by a blurred, talented and ill-used throng that includes Tina Benko, Susannah Flood, Quinn Mattfeld, Chuck Cooper and — why, who's that?
Cycling is good for the planet as well as your citizens' poorly-nourished, ill-used bodies, and studies show more people are willing to ride if cities provide infrastructure to support them.
But Warren, in her zeal to find someone she thinks has been ill-used by private equity investors, and ignoring her oft-repeated loathing of millionaires and billionaires, has settled on Taylor Swift.
In a process that Mr. Figueroa says is called "invadir" on the island, "to invade," people enter a building that has been abandoned or ill used and claim it for themselves, cleaning, improving and refurbishing it.
Its unnamed narrator — called Morton Vint in the movie and played by an ill-used, miscast Jonathan Rhys Meyers — has traveled to Venice to find the papers of his idol, Jeffrey Aspern, a dead Romantic poet.
Ms. Parker has an expansive and thrillingly original imagination, and her riposte to "The Scarlet Letter" required two plays, both featuring a central character named for Hawthorne's ill-used Hester: "In the Blood" and "A," whose full title includes an unprintable epithet.
It alleges that these funds were ill-used at a time when Nigeria was struggling to fight Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram that took over a chunk of the country's northeast in 2014 in its six-year bid to set up an Islamist state.
Maybe with his sixth sense for great stories, he somehow knew he was about to become one of the most scorching stories in Hollywood history, with an ending echoing that all-time classic of female empowerment and great shoes, "The Wizard of Oz." As with the Wicked Witch of the West, all Weinstein's power and malevolence would go up in smoke when an ill-used woman (or in his case, 84) finally fought back.
Bobby RushBobby Lee RushCongress mobilizes on cyber threats to electric grid CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries The Hill's Morning Report - Harris, Warren rise and Biden tumbles after debates MORE (D-Ill.) used Trump's tweet to pivot to a legislative matter, telling his followers to "hold the date" for when the House votes on a resolution to block the president's national emergency declaration to secure funding for a wall along the southern border.
Sen. Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthOvernight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador Senate committee advances nomination of general accused of sexual assault Overnight Defense: General accused of sexual assault to get confirmation hearing | Senate to vote Monday on overriding Saudi arms deal veto | Next Joint Chiefs chair confirmed | Graham tries to ease Turkey tensions MORE (D-Ill.) used Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE's (R-Ky.) own words defending his decision to block the nomination of Merrick GarlandMerrick Brian GarlandLaw professor: Court-packing should be 'last resort' Here's how senators can overcome their hyperpartisanship with judicial nominees McConnell campaign criticized for tombstone with challenger's name MORE to the Supreme Court to argue that Americans "should have a voice" in selecting the next justice.
Hairbreadth escapes for his life were long remembered. Having removed to Bristol, Alleine was there brutally ill used. In the ‘Commission’ of 1650 he is entered ‘William Allen, a learned, orthodox, able divine, the present incumbent.’ In 1653 he is similarly designated.
Finally, Chita (Toshia Mori), a local woman ill-used by Taggart, reveals to her people the extent of Taggart's machinations, with the result that the villagers ensure that he receives Parrish's fate. Joan and Lucky then are able to escape from Malango and marry.
She had wanted to abscond without ever telling anybody, but Holmes had tracked them down and convinced them that it would be better to have the full truth. However, Lord Robert is unmoved by Hatty's apologies and feels that he has been very ill used.
Lady Margaret was sired by the Belmont stallion The Ill-Used who was the sire of other very good runners including His Highness, who won the 1891 Futurity Stakes, Forester, winner of the 1882 Withers and Belmont Stakes, Jacobus who won the 1883 Preakness Stakes plus 1892 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Lady Violet.
Mary is also highly critical of the navy. She tells Edmund, "Of various admirals, I could tell you a great deal; of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. But, in general, I can assure you that they are all passed over, and all very ill used." At her uncle's home she met many admirals.
Fifth Business is narrated by Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay, who grows up in Deptford, a fictional town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. After World War I, he becomes a teacher and serves for decades at a college. The epistolary novel takes the form of a letter Ramsay writes to the headmaster of Colborne College after his retirement. He feels ill used by an article about him in the school paper.
In such disorders affairs soon took another turn, and Punja, driven from power, was succeeded by Gordhan Mehta. Thinking himself ill-used, Punja closely allied himself with Godji II, the Rao's only lawful son. Though but sixteen years of age, Godji, following his father's example and stirred on by his mother and Punja, demanded from his father a share in the management of the state. The Rao refused, and the young chief retired in anger.
He was now sent to school, first at Christ's College, Hertford, and afterwards at Jackson's Academy, Hampton. He was then set to learn the tailoring trade, but disliking it was apprenticed to a builder of ship's boats at Wapping, who ill-used him. His master absconding for debt, he was apprenticed to another in the same business. At the age of fourteen or fifteen he had a vision of an "ancient form", which he took to be Jesus Christ.
Following the Second Suppression Act, of 1539, Dr Gwent was attached to the commission to receive surrender of the larger monasteries in the western border counties, together with Robert Southwell, John London, John ap Rhys, Edward Carne and others. He first received the surrender of Godstow Abbey from his former patron, abbess Kateryn Bulkeley, to whom he assigned a pension,Warton, Life of Sir Thomas Pope, p. 371 (Google). but who felt herself ill-used by Dr London.
The trip Joe has taken was presumably done with ill-used sick days, as Raven says in the spoken-word fading end of the song, "well, they would have fired me if I'd have done something like that". It also suggests that Joe is married, as Raven asks rhetorically "you think Joe's wife knows about that yet?" before the song completely fades. Billy Warden of the Newport News Daily Press reviewed the song favorably, noting the "countrified Caribbean sway" and Raven's vocal tone.
Throughout his life, Loane believed that he had been robbed by unscrupulous persons and officials and that to progress in such a community he had to use the same system which attacked him. He proceeded to vent his grievances though the court systems of New South Wales and England. According to Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell: > Loane was a person who always asserts that he is ill-used by the world > collectively and individually. His hand is against everyone and everyone > against him.
Lucretia Mott flared up and debated him, saying that he was selectively using the Bible to put upon women a sense of order that originated in man's mind. She said "The pulpit has been prostituted, the Bible has been ill-used ... Instead of taking the truths of the Bible in corroboration of the right, the practice has been to turn over its pages to find examples and authority for the wrong."McMillen, 2008, p. 113. Mott cited Bible passages that proved Grew wrong.
After Ulundi was taken and torched on 4 July, Cetshwayo was deposed and exiled, first to Cape Town, and then to London. He returned to Zululand in 1883. From 1881, his cause had been taken up by, among others, Lady Florence Dixie, correspondent of the London Morning Post, who wrote articles and books in his support. This, along with his gentle and dignified manner, gave rise to public sympathy and the sentiment that he had been ill-used and shoddily treated by Bartle Frere and Lord Chelmsford.
Ladislaus spent most of his marriage to Elisabeth chasing after the Cumans, encouraging them to come and live in Hungary. Ladislaus clearly preferred the society of the semi-heathen Cumans to that of the Christians; he wore, and made his court wear, Cumanian dress; surrounded himself with cumanian concubines, and neglected and ill-used his ill-favoured Neapolitan consort. When they wanted to leave Hungary, Ladislaus used his forces to make them stay. Elisabeth was arrested in 1286 so that Ladislaus could live with a Cuman mistress.
When Stacey discovers this, she punches Callum and he reveals that his mother, who was also mentally ill, used to abuse him and lock him in cupboards when he was a child. He has scars on his legs from an incident where his mother attacked him with a wire coat hanger at the age of ten. Due to this and realising that Stacey would never leave Jean, Callum declares there is nothing left for him in Walford. He bids a final goodbye to Stacey and leaves to pursue Vinnie, who has already departed.
All of the regulations regarding television at that time were defined under the Federal Communications Act of 1934, which dealt with the advertising, fair competition, and labeling of broadcast stations. The Act and regulations written by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) were indefinite in regards to fixed television programs. Due to the fact that there were no specific laws regarding the fraudulent behavior in the quiz shows, it is debatable whether the producers or contestants alike did anything illegal. Instead, it could be inferred that the medium was ill-used.
Jacques Dugommier On 16 January 1794, the French government appointed General of Division Jacques François Dugommier to lead the army. The victor of the Siege of Toulon began a thorough reorganization of the ill-used Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. Dugommier established supply depots, hospitals, and arsenals, and constructed roads. The army's reorganization and resupply was necessary because seven- eighths of the infantry's muskets had no bayonets, the artillery was badly armed, the cavalry and wagon train's horses were starving because of a lack of forage, the food supply was intermittent and the men's uniforms were in poor condition.
Bosworth was born on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, Ohio, a descendant of Miles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden on his father's side and of New York's Van Zandt family, the first Dutch settlers to land in the New World, on his mother's side. Bosworth was always proud of his lineage. After his mother died, his father remarried and young Hobart took a dislike to his stepmother. Considering himself "ill used and cruelly treated", as he told an interviewer in 1914, he ran away to New York City and became a cabin boy on a ship.
On the sixteenth of April with profound misgiving we gain from our Rapid Response group in Lori marz, that the human rights activists of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office had been assaulted. As per the declaration of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office a few subjects, who were against screening of Azerbaijani movies, tossed stones towards the human rights association's office, ill-used, harmed the property and even hurt one of the officers. Savagery towards any individual is unequivocally censured, and brutality towards persons with exceptional mission including human rights shields and writers is over and again denounced. Savagery towards human rights guards and writers is a wrongdoing, as well as disgrace and disgrace for the general public.
If they'd just given us a bit more to do–there's a lot of ill- used space, and many of the existing puzzles are treasure hunts–we might have had a classic on our hands." CU Amiga called the game "original, good to look at, excellent to play and varied throughout." CU Amiga wrote that the game's overhead perspective "plays a lot better than it looks", and complimented the dinosaur animations. CU Amiga particularly praised the game's first-person mode for "some amazing 3D graphics" but also wrote that the "smoothly- scrolling backgrounds aren't as detailed as they could have been considering they are on the 1200, but the dinosaur graphics more than compensate.
He voted with the Administration except in the divisions on the excise and spoke for the Administration in a debate of 12 February 1730 on Dunkirk, and on 18 February in support of a petition from the Royal African Company for a subsidy to maintain its forts and settlements. He was a member of the gaols committee in the year 1728 to 1729. In 1732, a bill enabling the Charitable Corporation to raise new capital was before Parliament, and it was alleged that Hughes had complained to the directors of the corporation that he was ‘ill used by them’, in being given no shares for supporting the bill. Hughes died in debt on 26 January 1734, leaving two sons and a daughter.
The New York Times panned the film, offering that Ronald Colman was ill-used in the film and writing that "either Mr. Colman is slipping or his writers are," and expanded that John Van Druten and Arnold Belgard did not do a proper adaption of "a frivolous French play". They noted that what at one point in the film is meant to begin an ongoing "battle of wits" between the characters of Colman and Reginald Gardiner, devolved into a repetition of " gags," and further questioned why Milestone "should put his usually fine directorial hand to a story as vapid as this," and why otherwise competent performers "should be wasted on such obvious frippery." The film recorded a loss of $32,000.
Herbert served under Sir Robert Mansell, in the expedition to Algiers (1620–1621), and commanded the ship which brought Prince Charles home from Spain in October 1623. He also carried Count Mansfeld from Dover to Flushing on his expedition for the recovery of the Palatinate, January 1624–1625, when he lost the ship near the Dutch coast, but got Mansfeldt ashore in the long-boat. Herbert was appointed to the command of HMS Dreadnought, 25 September 1625. From that date he had no promotion, and thinking himself ill-used, "retired", says his brother, "to a private and melancholy life, being much discontented to find others preferred to him; in which sullen humour having lived many years, he died and was buried in London in St. Martin's, near Charing Cross".
An ill-used and greatly misunderstood man, "he was," says Professor Alexander Macalister, > an expert anatomist and a philosophical biologist far in advance of his > period. His description of the vascular system of birds has in many respects > not been surpassed, and his account of the anatomy of mammals may be read > with more profit than many modern works. In his account of the brain of the > chimpanzee compared with that of an idiot, as well as in many others of his > papers, there are glimpses of a morphology far beyond Cuvier, whose works he > edited. His book on inflammation may be placed side by side with any > pathological work of the period, while his researches on animal luminosity > form the basis of many subsequent researches on the subject.
Fitzgerald obtained a commission as a Spanish privateer (guarda costa) out of Havana in 1672. Late that year he captured the English ship Humility under Matthew Fox, abusing the captured crew until several of them died. Fox testified that when Fitzgerald was asked why he was so barbaric to English captives, he exclaimed: “giving no reason but that his countrymen were ill-used by the English 24 years ago, and he should never be satisfied with English blood, but could drink it as freely as water when he was adry; and he had commission to sink or take all ships trading from Jamaica, and kill those.” Early in 1673 he captured the 130-ton logwood hauler Virgin of Edmund Cooke, putting him and his crew in a longboat with no provisions.
After the war, the city was later handed to Fateh Singh Gaekwad who held it for two years. The city was severely damaged and depopulated and the economy was destroyed. Under the terms of the under the Treaty of Salbai (24 February 1783) Ahmedabad was restored to the Peshwa, the Gaekwad's interest being as before, limited to one-half of the revenue and the command of one of the gates. For some years tho city improved, its manufactures in 1789 being incomparably better than those of Surat. Then the 1790 famine caused fresh distress, and a few years later only a quarter of the space within the walls was inhabited. At this time (1798–1800) Aba Salukar, tho Peshwa's Governor, indebted and oppressive, ill-used the people, and embezzled the Gaekwad's revenues.
Consequently, this first Marine Watch of Harrison's failed the needs of the Board despite the fact that it had succeeded in two previous trials. Harrison's Chronometer H5, (Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers), in the Science Museum, London Harrison began working on his second 'sea watch' (H5) while testing was conducted on the first, which Harrison felt was being held hostage by the Board. After three years he had had enough; Harrison felt "extremely ill used by the gentlemen who I might have expected better treatment from" and decided to enlist the aid of King George III. He obtained an audience with the King, who was extremely annoyed with the Board. King George tested the watch No.2 (H5) himself at the palace and after ten weeks of daily observations between May and July in 1772, found it to be accurate to within one third of one second per day.
After absorbing his spouse's efforts at distraction, which take the form of bitter reproaches that his coming back so early betokens a laziness that can only worsen their poverty, the smith announces that he has sold the tub for six drachmae; to this his wife responds by saying that she has in fact already sold it for seven, and has sent the buyer into the tub to inspect it. Emerging, the lover complains that his supposed purchase is in need of a proper scrubbing if he is to close the deal, so the cuckolded smith gets a candle and flips the tub to clean it from underneath. The canny adulteress then lies atop of the tub and, her lover pleasuring her the while, instructs her hapless husband as to where he should apply his energies. To add insult to injury, the ill-used man eventually has to deliver the tub to the lover's house himself.
The Sheriff of Stirling, Ranald MacDonald, required that they make no political speech from the gallows, but agreed that they could speak upon the bible. Baird concluded his brief speech by saying "Although this day we die an ignominious death by unjust laws our blood, which in a very few minutes shall flow on this scaffold, will cry to heaven for vengeance, and may it be the means of our afflicted Countrymen’s speedy redemption." Hardie then spoke of "our blood [being] shed on this scaffold... for no other sin but seeking the legitimate rights of our ill used and down trodden beloved Countrymen", then when the Sheriff angrily intervened he concluded by asking those present to "go quietly home and read your Bibles, and remember the fate of Hardie and Baird." They were hanged and then beheaded, in what was the last beheading in the UK, a few months after the Cato Street Plot.
In one of her letters written back home, famously from the interior of a bath house, she dismisses the idea that slaves of the Ottoman elite should be figures to be pitied. In response to her visit to the slave market in Istanbul, she wrote "you will imagine me half a Turk when I don't speak of it with the same horror other Christians have done before me, but I cannot forbear applauding the humanity of the Turks to those creatures. They are never ill-used, and their slavery is in my opinion no worse than servitude all over the world." She did not write about African slavery in the Western world, but the Jonathan Richardson the Younger portrait that depicts Montagu accompanied by a young black slave boy in a golden collar who holds an umbrella shows that she was intimately familiar with and participated in the tradition in which European aristocracy owned young black servants and used them as part of their social equipage.
Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt on his father's side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life. She appears in the novel's first chapter, where she demonstrates her uncommon personality and her dislike of boys when she storms out of the house after hearing that David's mother has had a son, rather than the daughter to whom Trotwood intended to be the godmother.Dickens, Charles 'David Copperfield' Published by Bradbury & Evans (1850) Betsey plays a bigger role in David's later life by taking him in after he has run away from labelling wine bottles in the factory in Blackfriars where his stepfather, Edward Murdstone, had placed him to work after the death of David's mother. She provides him with a place at a good school in Canterbury and opportunities for a career in Doctors' Commons, thus showing her complex character.
From there, Caro is guided by only one thing: A search for purpose. Since knowledge is supposed to be found in books, he determines to read every book in the library; he moves to Staten Island because a resident of that place, whom he meets during his flight from the school, tells him, offhandedly, that there is the only place to live; he accepts, and stays with, the first job offered to him, even though he is exploited, ill-used, and underpaid; only when his wife leaves him, after giving birth to a stillborn child he later finds out wasn't his after all,(and which she had planned to sell to a disreputable adoption agency), does he think to look elsewhere. However, his ultimate goal hasn't changed; he's still after only one goal; purpose. He is tricked into virtual slavery by an old man (possibly the one who abandoned him at the school, he conjectures), and after being lured into murder by a devious, suicidal transsexual, becomes a virtual toy for the old man's grandson.
After this double treachery he thought it prudent to quit Italy and repaired to the court of Philip V of Macedon. There, by his ability and cunning, he made himself useful to the king as a convenient tool for carrying into execution the most nefarious schemes, and ultimately rose to a high place in his favour and confidence. He is said to have especially gained these by the address with which, pretending to have been ill-used and driven into banishment by Philip, he ingratiated himself with the Rhodians, and succeeded in setting fire to their arsenal, and burning great part of their fleet. It is not difficult to believe that a man who had risen to power by such arts as these should have abused it when attained: and we are told that he made use of his influence with the king to get rid of all those that were opposed to his views, and even induced him to put to death five of the leading members of his council of state at once.

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