Perhaps it will take a combination of school violence and lawsuits to make educators and society aware that their passivity only encourages abuse.

Guidelines themselves, as the experience of the Netherlands demonstrates, create a sanction that encourages abuse.

Medicare's system of paying for ambulance services, she said, is so complex that it "encourages fraud and abuse and thwarts efforts to control expenditures."

They assert that the naming of the accused while providing the accuser with anonymity encourages abuse.

But tough talk followed by the pretense that cosmetic changes are "somewhat promising" only encourages contemptuous abuse.

We prefer not to divulge specifics of our checks-and-balances program simply because that would tend to encourage abuse.

He also wanted to outlaw any coverage that could encourage sexual abuse of children, he said.

Most will be deleted, Sunday appears to encourage this type of column,the double standards, a whiff of hypocrisy, and plain old abuse.

However, driving examiners fear that putting the testing into the hands of private driving schools will encourage abuse.

That sends a bad message and encourages abuse.