Sentence examples for economic servitude from inspiring English sources

They are grinding down people into economic servitude.

But O'Neill also clearly suggests that the hubristic hero has been corrupted by economic servitude.

Many Thais have persuaded themselves that foreigners are trying to impose a fire-sale of their assets and reduce their country to economic servitude.

Sure, Ireland's GNP fell by 2.5% last year, our national debt is climbing towards 160% of GNP and the government has sold its people into economic servitude for generations to come, but lads, relax will ye.

As a result, the federal minimum wage keeps an entire class of people trapped in economic servitude, focusing their attention on survival rather than growth, barring their ability to save enough or pay for education that would allow them to rise to the middle class.

"Economic servitude, no matter how comfortable the slave, is still slavery," Sharpton said, apparently with a straight face.

Political freedom cannot be achieved without freeing people from economic and social servitude.

In many respects that is true, but for our purposes, the fundamental point is that since the beginning of the European sojourn in the "new world," roughly 400 years, Africans and their descendants have been legally and forcibly relegated to economic and social servitude of one form or another, with the expressed intention of undergirding America's economy.

He called Mr Chávez's economic policies "the path to servitude".One day after making those comments, Mr Álvarez and two other Fedecámaras directors were held for several hours at gunpoint.

But he said the book he considered "most solid" is "Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil," an examination of how racially based servitude contributed directly to Brazil's economic and social backwardness.

The proof of this is everywhere from the staggering disparity in income levels for senior executives and all other workers; to the disproportionately large price paid by the middle class and poor during times of economic crisis; to the silent misery of indentured servitude that exists in Corporate America.