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All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they cannot, misemploy it.

Representative Government 2002

John Stuart Mill called it: "A means of assuring that depositories of power cannot misemploy it."

Canada: Facing the Future 1991

One patient I observed over a three-month period did not so much break the rules as flagrantly misemploy available excuses for breaking them.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

How much more in keeping with Christian manners that the son of the household should share in the burden of keeping the domestic machinery running smoothly, rather than misemploy his time, and grow up unacquainted with the practical duties of life!

Stories Worth Rereading Various

But the Scottish Solomon who was on the alert, added another law restraining its cultivation 'to misuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful Kingdom.'

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

It was a cruel thought to persons less favoured in their birth, that this creature, endowed-to use the language of theatres-with extraordinary "means," should so manage to misemploy them that he looked ugly and almost deformed.

The Silverado Squatters 1884

It was a cruel thought to persons less favoured in their birth, that this creature, endowed -- to use the language of theatres -- with extraordinary "means," should so manage to misemploy them that he looked ugly and almost deformed.

The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they can not misemploy it.

Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839

I do not misemploy the leisure I make here; such books as, from their value, ought not to be lent from the library, I am now consulting, and appropriating such of their contents as may be useful, to my red book.

Letter 200 1797

By presenting to the master objects of culture, easier and equally beneficial, all temptation to misemploy them would be removed, and the lot of this tender part of our species be much softened.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784