Sentence examples for close to slavery from inspiring English sources

"It was as close to slavery as you could get.

Segregation was a way of keeping blacks as close to slavery as the states could.

Its regime was "probably as close to slavery as any person could come in 1930".

Delphine Reuter of the Shipbreaking Platform, an NGO in Brussels, describes ship recycling as "close to slavery".

The globalization of labor is the overarching story of Asia, hauling millions of families out of desperate poverty and trapping millions of workers in something close to slavery.

She lived close to slavery, starvation, and cruelty to women, and Spurling asks what else she buried along with the bones.

Alia's mother, Khedjia, is the favorite of Sidi Ali, with whom she has a tender relationship despite a position that is close to sexual slavery.

With that one damning quote, the film argues that the exploitative NCAA system has closer ties to slavery than the casual observer might think.

Judge Simon Pratt described the case as "the closest to human slavery as you could possibly get".

Systematically putting these lessons to work will move the world closer to eradicating slavery.

Cincinnati was in the Upper South, close to the culture of slavery, and she began to hear stories that would provide templates for her most influential work.