Sentence examples for dire violations from inspiring English sources

In practice, human-rights presidents often end up picking on weak countries (in Mr Obama's case, Honduras) while ignoring much more dire violations of human rights in more powerful and important places (like Russia, China and Iran).

There have been less dire violations reported, too, such as burglaries and harassment, but Daniel Hoffer, the company's C.E.O. and co-founder, who is thirty-four, says that, statistically speaking, couch surfing is remarkably safe.

The crustacean is already associated with dire human rights violations in parts of Asia, where the fishing industry is one of the largest providers of shrimp to the US, but has also been charged with human trafficking and abuses tantamount to slavery.

"We further urge the U.K. government to show restraint, and to consider the dire ramifications of any violation of the elementary norms of international law".

While the JMEC report offered only five examples of ceasefire violations, it gave a dire assessment of the cooperation of both sides in the detente.

In light of these facts and figures, which are but mere examples of many other violations, it is obvious how dire the situation is in Egypt.

The absence of justice has resulted in the dire situation we face today, in the systematic violation of fundamental human rights, and the closure of the Gaza Strip.

That's the dire message in a new analysis of federal drinking water violations released Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.

But that could not expunge Lincoln's constitutional violation, Judge Posner says; "a great president claimed a moral right to violate the Constitution in circumstances of dire necessity".

It is clear from the context that the foregoing statement pertained principally to Fagan's honesty at voir dire (and was designed to protect her from criminal prosecution for violation of her oath of office).

France must act on the "dire" living conditions of refugees and migrants sleeping rough in Calais and stop systematically evicting people from tents in violation of the right to adequate housing, the United Nation's housing envoy has said.