21.   The rule only applies where the subsequent abuse is a positive wrongful act as opposed to an omission.

22.   Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate.

23.   As our investigation of the problem in Darlington last month demonstrated, solvent abuse is just as lethal and much more prevalent among younger children.

24.   Dr Reid is also the author of the Constancy of Cruelty, which contends that child abuse is the result of misdirected aggression within the family context.

25.   Although support for secession raises serious issues regarding possible outside intervention, it is justifiable if the underlying abuses are sufficiently grave.

26.   Among them were human rights abuses against blacks, the start of independent black schools and the construction of health centers featuring alternative and traditional medicines.

27.   And abuses there were.

28.   And if there is family abuse, if a kid has nowhere to go, they can go there.

29.   And the abuse could be merciless.

30.   And there were candid discussions of substance abuse, including an assertion by one official that alcohol abuse was the biggest problem among players.