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Some are being starved into submission, while others are being subjected to unspeakable atrocities.
Much of today’s bottled water, however, is not glacier or natural spring water but processed water, which is municipal water or, more often, directly extracted groundwater that has been subjected to reverse osmosis or other purification treatments.
While external factors also play a major role, Muslim attitudes toward their host country are strongly influenced by the perception that Muslims are subjected to humiliation and oppression.
The creditors stand to lose large sums should a member state exit the monetary union, yet debtors are subjected to policies that deepen their depression, aggravate their debt burden, and perpetuate their subordinate position.
But he has since been subjected to violent and arbitrary reprisals in this supposed “safe haven.”
In the process, they subjected the assumptions underlying homo economicus to experimental tests and found them wanting.
Most eurozone members are now in breach of the Pact, yet none has been subjected to the penalties envisaged by its architects.
Nature had to contend with a libel suit for pointing out that a physics journal had published many articles by its editor, and that these articles had not been subjected to peer review.
In the end, the party was found guilty and subjected to a fine.
For example, some supporters of the ban have argued that circumcision violates Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
In Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the Kurds were subjected to genocidal chemical-weapons attacks.
Violations of these commitments would have subjected signatories to binding arbitration.
In Yugoslavia, Slovenes, Serbs, and Croats managed to carve out independent republics, but the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina were less successful, and were subjected to a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” by both Croatian and Serb forces.
We could not have achieved the economic and political reforms that qualified us for EU membership if we had not subjected policymaking to public scrutiny and accepted the increased public participation in decision-making that inevitably accompanies such openness.
With policymaking having been subjected to the malign influence of a rising plutocracy, economists calling for “bold persistent experimentation” were swimming against the tide – even though well-founded economic theories justified precisely that course of action.
The UK’s dairy exports will be subjected to a 40% average tariff.
Prisoners were still being subjected at the time to freezing temperatures, sleep deprivation, and “other abuses.”
Many of Burma’s ethnic minorities – whose members comprise almost 40% of the population – have long been subjected to persecution and mistreatment.
This includes women subjected to beatings, forced marriage at an early age, sexual assault, “honor” crimes, and female genital mutilation.
None of them can currently be found in Bolivia, which means that the money concentrated in the state will surely be redistributed by patrimonial and clientelistic means, siphoned off by corruption, and subjected to social pressures of all sorts.
Connecting with another person in an unscrutinized, uncivilized, unmediated, unobserved way inevitably reminds people that there are aspects of the human soul that cannot and must not be subjected to official control.
In recent years, Big Tech companies have been subjected to scrutiny for perfecting a dark art pioneered by commercial newspapers, radio, and television: attracting and holding our attention, in order to sell access to our senses to paying advertisers.
When indigenous leaders of Oaxaca’s local fishing community complained that the new facilities would have a negative impact on their source of income and way of life, they were subjected to acts of intimidation, judicial prosecutions, and physical attacks.
The team was also subjected to shameless verbal bullying by Sri Lankan officials (a deeply unpleasant experience to which I, too, have been subjected).
Nearly 400,000 people have now been transferred from the realm of subhumans to that of hunted animals, smoked out of the villages to which they had previously been confined, driven out on the roads, shot at, tortured for fun, and subjected to mass rape.
That is why, in Mexico today, little boys (and not little girls) are subjected to hormonal and psychological treatment, are removed from mixed schools, and are forbidden to play with girls, all in an effort to prevent them from turning out homosexual.
Although independent central banks have been crucial in helping the region achieve macroeconomic stability over the past two decades, they, like electoral authorities, are being subjected to increasing pressure.
A 2013 ruling by the European Court of Justice that Germany could not return an Iranian refugee to Greece (where the applicant was found “to face a real risk of being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment”) probably heightened Germany’s sense of responsibility on this issue.
Locked between China and Japan, the Korean Peninsula is, to use an old Korean saying, “a shrimp among whales,” and it has been subjected to untold horrors as a result.
Other countries have been subjected to far milder penalties for more egregious offenses.
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