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And, in addition to the vast distances, there is the harsh climate.
In 2014, the British current-affairs program Exposure found evidence of children as young as 13 working in factories (often under harsh conditions) producing clothes for retailers in the United Kingdom.
By contrast, the Treaty of Versailles, too harsh to be honored and too weak to be enforced, paved the way for World War II.
In the wake of the riots, British Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed reviving children’s courts, urged harsh sentences and orange jumpsuits for convicts, and floated even more odious ideas.
And the EU must back away from its harsh stance, however understandable it may be.
Liu’s harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
So Russia's liberals and democrats face a harsh choice: do they support Putin's personal authoritarianism or seek to weaken and delegitimize him and thus restore the role of an ascendant bureaucracy?
To be sure, reforms are – and always will be – subject to harsh criticism, with old Kemalist elites clinging to the unitary and secular republican tradition and Kurdish nationalists seeking to eliminate all expressions of Turkish national identity from the political culture.
Italy recently adopted harsh “emergency” decrees that target migrants by making undocumented entry and residence a criminal offense.
The harsh reality – thrown into stark relief by the Japanese disaster – is that we do not yet have the luxury of dumping coal, gas, and nuclear power.
American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.
It is not Great Britain in the 1970’s, a country that truly had nothing to lose by taking Margaret Thatcher’s harsh road of structural change.
The US could benefit from such policies, as capital-account regulation would force investors to find opportunities at home, while a true global reserve currency would free the US from concerns – and harsh rebukes – about the implications of its monetary policy on the global economy.
They might well be reluctant to swallow the harsh medicine that Italy needs.
In Israel, there was harsh criticism of political and military chiefs alike, who were blamed for the loss of 3,000 soldiers in a war that ended without a clear victory.
His promise to restore coal-mining jobs (which now number 51,000, less than 0.04% of the country’s nonfarm employment) overlooks the harsh conditions and health risks endemic in that industry, not to mention the technological advances that would continue to reduce employment in the industry even if coal production were revived.
Expanding Crime and Punishment in TibetNEW YORK – China has been widely criticized for its harsh treatment of almost any form of political dissent in Tibet.
The Rohingya are not recognized by Burmese law, and face official discrimination and harsh treatment, including virtually impenetrable barriers to citizenship and forced labor.
The consequence of Tudjman's policies – always projected in a harsh, bullying style – led to Croatia's isolation from Europe and America.
Partly a result of the lack of outside support, but also to harsh economic conditions, the Faustian bargain between Yeltsin and Russia's old guard was made.
The harsh reality is that China is turning into a trade tyrant that rides roughshod over international rules.
He observed that the Korean temperament is a product of long, harsh Siberian winters and hot, humid summers, with only short springs and autumns.
Against this backdrop, UN member governments should acknowledge the gap between the ideals they espoused last year and the harsh realities many migrants and refugees continue to face today.
After the long and painful campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand every impulse to stay clear of the turmoil, to watch but not to intervene, to ratchet up language but not to engage in the hard, even harsh business of changing reality on the ground.
He famously induced people from a variety of social classes and occupations to administer what they thought were increasingly harsh electrical shocks to a helpless victim (played by an actor) sitting in an adjoining room, and his findings have since been replicated around the world.
Oil sales will not help people in the region for many years; meanwhile, for many people in the ruined economies of the Caucasus, life is no less harsh than in war-torn Chechnya.
Tillerson’s harsh language could be justified if it leads to a negotiated solution among the US, China, and North Korea.
Consumer spending and business investment continued at that rate in 2014 (except for the first quarter, owing to the weather-related effects of an exceptionally harsh winter).
The communist Knight, the new “caballero de la triste figura,” a kind of enlightened idiot, blinded by his loyalty to the unreal and by his harsh political correctness, considers Lenin a new Moses.
The reaction has been swift, harsh, and almost universally excoriating.
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