It would have been a gross abuse of official power.

But while the gross abuse appears to have stopped, conditions remain far from acceptable.

What is going on before our very eyes is a gross abuse of human rights.

"The payments the county stopped were a gross abuse of taxpayer dollars."

To lawyers, "fully and fairly" means anything short of gross abuse.

A gross abuse of authority: he should have dealt with it firmly.

After a few years in this function he was arrested and convicted for gross abuse of his office.

The Times, in an editorial, described the episode as a "gross abuse of power."

And if not contributing actually leads to trouble with the cops, that is a gross abuse of power.

He termed the case as a gross abuse of the judicial system and an error in law.

Excusing gross abuse of contract and federal law is pathetic.

He called his ordeal "a gross abuse of the constitutional right of free speech."

And so yesterday it was indicted in what the firm said was "a gross abuse of government power."

He rubbed his sore hand, reflecting that the whole thing had been a gross abuse of coincidence.

Congress was infuriated by the act, which was seen as a gross abuse of presidential power.

Calling the investigation a "gross abuse of authority", Hughes wrote:

This would be a gross abuse of people's right to privacy and of basic civil liberties.

Prosecution against 21 people was halted due to a '"gross abuse of process" by police'

Furthermore, David was charged with one count of gross abuse of a corpse.

But he then undermined support for his own arguments by downplaying Beijing's gross abuse of human rights.

To the contrary, our standard for intervention should simply be a refusal to tolerate gross abuses by a government against its citizens.

But the material arrived months late, in what the judge described as a "willful and gross abuse of discovery obligations."

He almost felt for a day or two the victim of a practical joke, a gross abuse of confidence.

But gross abuses still occur, and the United Nations has no power to punish the offenders.

One can see how even crazy fears of government power could resonate after such gross abuse of force.