By degrees, all disturbers of the public peace, all offenders against justice met with their deserts; and as it is a query, whether on its first institution, any law from the bench was more honestly and impartially administered than this very Lynch law, which has now had its name prostituted by the most barbarous excesses and contemptuous violation of all law whatever. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
Crawford-Browne said that when he told Manuel to his face that he had "prostituted" himself when he signed international loan agreements to fund the deal, his use of the word "was both accurate and appropriate". ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the Citie of Pirato, there was an Edict or Statute, no lesse blameworthy (to speake uprightly) then most severe and cruell, which (without making any distinction) gave strict command; That everie Woman should be burned with fire, who husband found her in the acte of Adultery, with any secret or familiar friend, as one deserving to bee thus abandoned, like such as prostituted their bodies to publike sale or hire. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For instance, referring to all sex workers as "prostituted" or ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Royal household have always had to "prostituted" themselves for the needs of British interests abroad. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The new EC chairman refuses to recognise the Perak Speaker's request to call for two by-elections after two assemblymen "prostituted" themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"But, dear papa," proceeded Lucy, "if you should persist in marrying me to a profligate, merely because he is a nobleman -- oh, how often is that honorable name prostituted! ❋ William Carleton (1831)
Human trafficking, and young girls being prostituted are crimes that should be treated as crimes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'd rather see a really interesting/relevant/consequential Trek produced for $70million that Paramount can ultimately make a nice bit on change on than watch Roddenberry's optimist vision of the future prostituted to whoever can make a summer tentpole movie out of the characters and backstory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They are used for a tradition known as bacha bazi — literally, "boy play" in Dari, one of the national languages — in which they are dressed as young girls, made to dance and then prostituted to the highest bidder in the crowd. ❋ Maria Abi-Habib (2011)
We have had literally thousands of people who were addicted, abused, prostituted, abandoned, disabled -- you name it, we've seen it. ❋ Matthew Barnett (2011)
Not A Past. -- a campaign in Georgia to address and prevent sex trafficking of teen girls in the state -- released results from a pilot study that measured the demand for adolescent girls prostituted in Georgia. ❋ Deborah Richardson (2011)
This hypocrisy has been nowhere more pernicious than in the Middle East, where western governments have prostituted their avowed values for decades as a result of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the location of so much oil in the region, imperial legacies and, especially since 9/11, a short-termist view that "strong men" are the most reliable bulwark against extremist Islamism, al-Qaida and its murderous associates. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Virginia should send a delegation to England to tell the king how “grossly” his honor and public money had been “prostituted.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)
