Conditions in re-education camps are dire: Physical abuse by guards and the criminal elements they entrust to enforce "order" is common, as are long hours of arduous work with no rest day; institutionalized corruption; deficient health care; and what the Justice Ministry refers to as "abnormal deaths".
There has been a dire pattern of abuses: in December 2007, more than 100 UN soldiers from Sri Lanka were deported under charges of sexual abuse of under-age girls.
It made the abuse and dire boredom of my daily school life bearable, almost.
The Labour leadership frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn, has said he does not do "personal, reaction or abuse", after dire warnings from Tony Blair and Yvette Cooper about the prospect of his leading the party.
Dioceses in New York and New Jersey are closing elementary schools and planning to consolidate parishes; the ranks of priests are dwindling; finances are increasingly dire; and the sexual abuse scandal has left a lingering scar on the churchs public image.
Scientists, editors, and publishers take to blogs, journals, social media, and interview forums to discuss the deficiencies, abuse and dire implications of the impact factor.
The government stands accused of committing dire human-rights and other abuses through its TMVP proxies.
Europe will provide aid and other incentives to several African and Middle Eastern countries to care for refugees, better control their borders, readmit people rejected as refugees by Europe, and tackle the reasons people flee in the first place -- like dire poverty and human rights abuses.
This has dire implications for the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline.
The state is in dire need of stricter animal abuse laws and more funding for food, medicine and housing for severely abused and abandoned animals.
