Anyone suspected of violent or organised crime, or abuse of power, can under a new law be held for five days without charge, and prosecutors can choose which court should hear their cases.

所有的暴力犯罪、有组织犯罪以及滥用权力犯罪的疑犯，按照新的法律，可不经指控关押五天，检方可以选择由哪个法院接受他们的案子。

youdao

There's no law protecting willow trees from any kind of abuse as long as they belong to the abuser.

只要杨柳树归施虐者所有，法律就不会保护杨柳树免于施虐者的任何虐待。

youdao

Critics of the new law said it would be an abuse of power to let the White House control the Internet.

批评人士称，这项新法案会让白宫控制网络，是滥用权力。

youdao

Claire Wright at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego,California,says legal protections do not always cover all kinds of abuse.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"History has shown there has yet to be a company that has won the hearts and minds of consumers and achieved continuous growth, when its primary means to competition has been the outright abuse of patent law, not the pursuit of innovation, " the memo said.

BBC: Apple seeks to ban sale of eight Samsung phones in US

Earlier on Monday, Samsung sent a memo to staff hitting out at what it called the "abuse of patent law".

BBC: Apple seeks to ban sale of eight Samsung phones in US

The reason that far more people are going bust now is not greater abuse of the law but rather far more people with large debts, she says an argument supported by many other independent studies.

ECONOMIST: America goes bust