Sentence examples for dire exploitation from inspiring English sources

If Sinclair were here today, I'd send him to the San Joaquin Valley, where vegetables fit for Hockney and every farmers' market are produced through dire exploitation.

A recent report by Integrity Research even surmises that Assad's ceasefires are designed to "force opposition surrender through the exploitation of dire humanitarian needs".

Repayments to China are guaranteed by long-term commodity sales, which means a commitment to push ahead with resource exploitation – often with dire consequences for the environment and indigenous communities.

For girls who fall into sex work, their situation is dire: they routinely face arrest, exploitation and abuse.

Protection concerns remained significant, with cross-border movements having dire consequences in terms of sexual and gender-based exploitation and violence, in turn increasing the number of persons affected and/or infected by HIV/AIDS.

A July 2012 assessment found that the exploitation of natural resources since the 2009 coup has had dire consequences for the island's wildlife: 90 percent of lemur species were found to be threatened with extinction, the highest proportion of any mammalian group.

Brazil — "The stories of the great majority of children affected by HIV/AIDS and of street children are of marginality: social exclusion, family abandonment, dire poverty, favela life, drug trafficking and consumption, alcohol, parental abuse, sexual exploitation, and ultimately death".

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It was the "exploitation".

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