The board announced last month that it had closed an investigation into allegations that corporations were routinely abusing the limits on how much money they could donate statewide to political campaigns.

At one point, Hoke insists to Miss Daisy, who is routinely abusing him from the back seat, that he is a man, not just the back of a neck.

Or did she routinely abuse them, once forcing a 7-year-old girl to eat a dead rat, as prosecutors charge?

After a Federal investigation, led by a postal inspector, John McDermott, they concluded that Mr. Wetterer, 49, was a pedophile, routinely abusing the boys in his care.

Since Mr. Bissell's suicide, critics in Somerset have accused him of routinely abusing his power in his treatment of some political foes and criminal suspects alike.

The Detroit Police's 10th Precinct routinely abused prisoners; as mug shots later proved, many injuries came after booking.

Separated from his sister and transferred at age 9 to a group residence where bigger boys routinely abused him, he began openly longing for his father.

But, she said, Mr. Washington's appearance raised hopes that a dialogue could be opened with City Hall about the concerns of many Haitians that the police routinely abuse their power.

It is clear that many companies and individuals routinely abuse laws designed to protect the environment.

We routinely abuse other species in labs, circuses and slaughterhouses not because we have the moral authority, but simply because we can.