Sentence examples for a harsh system from inspiring English sources

They play on because, with each new attempt, they think they more clearly understand the rules to surviving a harsh system.

They initiated projects to improve the colony's infrastructure, relying on a harsh system of forced labour.

A former slave, he instituted a harsh system of plantation labor, ordered a massacre of several thousand white Haitians and declared himself emperor.

Many other children and teens were abandoned or torn away from their families and placed into a harsh system that offers very few rehabilitative or forgiving elements.

As long as prison slavery is protected by the US Constitution, poor people and people of color will continue to find themselves victims of a harsh system that exploits free and cheap labor for the benefit of the state, corporations, and the ruling class.

But it is something of a mystery just how they succeeded in capturing public attention as hapless victims of a harsh judicial system.

In the Jim Crow era, blacks and whites lived with a code of hyper-politeness as a way to smooth the edges of a harsh racial system and, of course, keep it in place, scholars of Southern culture say.

Such programs offer the hope for diverting children away from a harsh correctional system that is all too often ill equipped to provide successful outcomes for those with mental illness and mental retardation.

It's a harsh dehumanising system that can often feel isolating and antagonistic.

I wasn't going to be able to show the effects of a harsh justice system for prisoners, but with the buses I could get closer to the experience and I could show what the effects were for the families," Dahm says.

Ultimately they may come into conflict with the law, victims of a harsh justice system that is ill prepared to cope with this new reality", he says.