Sentence examples for dire working from inspiring English sources

Barrie last saw Khan at the ministry of health in June, where he was lobbying on behalf of health workers striking over unpaid salaries and dire working conditions.

And during the four-year period Mr Venkatesh analysed, each footsoldier had a one in four chance of being murdered.Given such dire working conditions and the buoyancy of the American labour market, it ought to be possible to tempt gangsters to go straight simply by putting them in touch with the nearest Burger King.

In a message sent last month to leaders of communities affected by mining in Latin America, India, Africa and Asia, he spoke of "the cry for justice … for their lost lands, the violence, threats, corruption, the trampled human rights, the dire working conditions, and sometimes the slavery and human trafficking as well as the pollution of water, air and soil".

Watts calls his invention Esource, and it is a wonder of simplicity that he dreamed up after witnessing first-hand the dire working conditions at the Agbogbloshie dump for himself.

Today: floods dislodge land mines left over from the Bosnian War, Egypt shuts down universities to quell protest-related violence ahead of the presidential election, a human rights group releases video which appears to show the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teenagers, and South African fruit pickers face dire working conditions in the Hex River Valley.

Seventh, the dire working conditions in informal sectors such as child labour, slave labour, and lower-than-subsistence wage levels, are exacerbated in informal sectors [ 41].

The evening also included a reprise of "Sunday, Again," a fairly dire work by Jo Stromgren performed on last week's program.

And what makes The Iron Giant even more extraordinary is that it's based on The Iron Man, one of those dire "works for children" by Ted Hughes, with gloomy woodcut illustrations - the sort of thing only earnest English teachers think children could possibly like outside the classroom.

Orphaned at the age of 8, Wölfli spent his childhood in dire poverty, working as a hireling on farms, with little contact with eight older siblings.

In the wake of a Guardian investigation in September 2013, pressure has increased on the Qatari authorities to reform the kafala laws that tie workers to their employer and to improve often dire living and working conditions.

(And it's always more dire for the working class, who unquestionably make up the majority of any developed capitalist economy).