Sentence examples for cruel system from inspiring English sources

Only later did a cruel system come into focus.

It's not a cruel system, though: everyone eventually does get to eat.

People are left to fend for themselves in a cruel system where the most vulnerable pay the most.

And there are no — and I've said this before but there are no second chances, in this system, which can be a very, very cruel system.

The young protagonist of Gregg Helvey's "Kavi" is an Indian boy at the mercy of a cruel system of modern-day indentured servitude.

Yet both are falling through the cracks of a cruel system that pushes those caught up in its cogs to breaking point.

Rather than rid the EU of its cruel systems, the law allowed conventional cages to be replaced with so-called "enriched" versions.

Billy Bragg brings his recognisable rally-cry voice to There is Power in a Union, an old Joe Hill song that talks of industrial workers needing to unite if they are to effect change against the bosses and their cruel systems.

Today, eight states (Florida, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Maine, California, Michigan and Ohio) have taken steps to ban at least one of these cruel systems, and more are sure to follow.

An opinion article in The China Daily said he and his followers were "seeking to revive theocracy, the darkest and the cruelest system in Tibetan history".

Like most issues surrounding federal law enforcement, it's not a few bad apples causing problems – the issue is an expensive, often-cruel system that runs on autopilot and is difficult to change.