Sentence examples for horrific system from inspiring English sources

It is, of course, far better that he should disappear from my list and my life because of a horrific system that tethers people to the health care dollar and drags them hither and yon, but it is still hard not to grieve a little.

Lives are very personally at stake, and she finds a way, albeit a dangerous way, to circumvent the horrific system of control under which she is forced to live.

For context, apartheid was a horrific system of legalized segregation (officially beginning in 1948, though technically it traces its origins back to 1795 and British colonialists) in South Africa where blacks and people of color were treated as sub-human and forced from their homes into segregated slums and ghettos.

Bindi politics are one of the most horrific systems of oppression against women in our own society.

And by brilliantly untangling America's horrific financial system during Washington's presidency, Hamilton helped the U.S. grow from an underpopulated coastal nation to the world's only superpower.

Union-fearing lawmakers have complied: The program will be shut down after the next school year, and its 1,700 beneficiaries will be forced back into a horrific public school system.

The finished document is the most comprehensive account of atrocities perpetuated by the rulers of the "Hermit Kingdom" ever assembled and focuses largely on the regime's immense and horrific prison camp system.

The depiction of this horrific circle — a legal system that refuses to grant women basic rights and allows them no power to change that system, keeping them in a double state of subjugation, to the public and domestic authority of men — is the infuriating vortex that lends the movie an inspirational energy even though its aesthetic inspiration is minor and its approach to history is simplistic.

Children who go into care have often suffered cruel or tragic family lives, poor education and then horrific abuse in the system supposed to protect them.

The school system is horrific.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for the way the system had allowed "horrific abuse to go unchecked and unchallenged" for so long.