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Moreover, 81% of married women admitted to being subjected to verbal or physical abuse by their husbands.
As if that were not enough, to ensure that the girls do not run away or report their abusers, they may be subjected to so-called juju rituals, during which they are sworn to secrecy under pain of severe sanctions.
Come next year, everyone in Washington, DC, had better be nice to Trump, lest they be subjected to nasty tweets, hate mail, and online attacks.
In fact, the combination of freedom of expression and electoral competition is the key to improving democracies, because it enables systemic failures – not to mention leaders’ missteps – to be subjected to public scrutiny.
Even if Trump were subjected to a battery of blood tests and brain scans, the results would most likely prove nothing.
Thousands of civilians die, are displaced, or are subjected to appalling human-rights abuses, while the Security Council proves unable or unwilling to act.
To avoid more empty promises, all commitments must be backed up by a clear financing plan and subjected to regular accountability checks.
Digital platforms will likely be subjected to higher transparency standards for all “sponsored content,” not just to disclose the identity of advertisers, but also to limit the amounts spent on these messages.
University courses in humanities and social sciences are being subjected to implicit or explicit forms of gender censorship.
The largest such study is the recently completed ReSource project, in which my colleagues and I subjected almost 300 people, over 11 months, to an intense mental-training program, developed by a team of experienced mediation teachers, scientists, and psychotherapists.
Just imagine what might have happened with the works of, say, Proust, Kafka, Musil, Faulkner, or Borges had they been subjected to mass-market competition like shoes or cosmetics.
Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.
For all of the tension and fear surrounding the fight against a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, we should not forget that the plant – and with it the notion of a nuclear-energy industry – was subjected to an extraordinary test, in the strictest sense of the word.
Since February 1, the Nepali media have been subjected to absolute censorship.
Given Cameron’s opposition to Juncker’s candidacy for the Commission presidency, the abuse to which Juncker has been subjected by the British press, and Hill’s lack of centrality within British politics, Cameron may be justifiably nervous when Juncker announces his appointments to the new Commission.
Against this background, major changes in Fed policy – such as the decision to purchase trillions of dollars’ worth of securities or push interest rates to zero – could easily be subjected to legislative approval (except in times of emergency).
Through a combination of willful blindness, utter complacency, and intense stubbornness, Europe’s leaders subjected their countries to a conflict that shattered an entire generation.
Over the centuries, both Christians and Muslims dubbed the Yezidi “devil worshippers,” and subjected them to relentless persecution, which was especially extreme under the Ottoman Turks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Under Saddam Hussein, the Yezidi were not subjected to overt religious persecution, though they remained under pressure to Arabize their culture.
Incorporated into many countries’ constitutions, it stipulates that no one should be subjected to torture or to arbitrary arrest or detention.
In order to level the playing field among Chinese firms and for foreign firms, government programs should be subjected to more systematic cost-benefit analysis.
Fourth, in recent months opposition leaders and human rights activists have been subjected to criminal charges for speech critical of the government.
They later found themselves on the losing end of a long history of violence between their own separatist forces and the Turkish army, as well as being subjected to an ongoing policy of discrimination and forced assimilation.
According to a December 2007 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, almost 60% of Americans think globalization is bad because it has subjected US firms and workers to unfair competition.
But with more people of MENA origin subjected to so-called extreme vetting, fewer people from the region will be moving to the US.
Members of this cohort have no personal links to past German crimes, and they have often been subjected to anti-Zionist indoctrination by regimes seeking legitimacy through solidarity with the Palestinians.
Nor are they subjected to the same rigorous toxicity studies as other pharmaceutical agents.
But, as the Nelson case shows, women are not just subjected to the straightforward – equally onerous – lookism that men, too, might face on the job.
Of course, embryo research involves legitimate moral concerns, and it is the British who subjected these concerns to the earliest and the most sustained examination.
When Uber started in San Francisco in 2009, its market entry was neither challenged nor subjected to a difficult authorization process.
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