Sentence examples for dreadful living from inspiring English sources

The cumulative effect of these mutually reinforcing mechanisms facilitates forced labour and leads to the dreadful living and working conditions we see in Qatar today.

In their book "Cry of the Kalahari," which was published in 1984, the Owenses described their dreadful living conditions: "We rationed ourselves to seven gallons of water each per week, for bathing, cooking, and drinking.

Yet they have endured their dreadful living conditions precisely because they are all working hard to move from the "second economy" to the "first economy", as Mr Mbeki wants.

Many pregnant women and young babies surviving in makeshift accommodation at Zimbabwe's Hopley settlement are at serious risk of ill-health or death, because of the dreadful living conditions.

She was deeply aware of the dreadful living conditions of the children in her charge at the guild.

The play tells of the dreadful lives of several black women who strip in a peep show.

But the admiration for the ruling class expressed in her novels, and their qualities of courage, ease and tradition (plus great clothes, houses and horses) is undercut and qualified by other feelings and observations, including of the dreadful lives of servants.

But at least we'll get to see Richard Bacon die (metaphorically of course!) in public - always good for a laugh our Richard B. Why do Radio 5 (Live doncha know!?) insist on having these dreadful live audience broadcasts anyway?

I am preoccupied more by the desperate, unmet needs of patients living dreadful lives in the current moment.

He knows that she and he and we all have to die – and in a sense this is about making the best of that, whistling hymns in the dark because the alternative of grief is too dreadful to live with.

Lingering for two-and-a-half dreadful years, a living ghost, he described himself as "Robert Schumann, honorary member of heaven".