Sentence examples for severe labour from inspiring English sources
Rapid industrial growth in the former West Germany after World War II, for instance, produced a severe labour shortage, attracting several million workers from Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Yugoslavia.
University of Durham / Bristol / Dundee Monitoring for severe labour exploitation is weak and needs to be strengthened, findings from a report show.
Businessmen see her antipathy to foreigners as obstructive, when Denmark is grappling with a severe labour shortage that may necessitate more immigration.
National pay scales with limited regional variation mean that teachers and nurses are under-paid in London and the south-east, leading to severe labour shortages.
In Qatar, an undercover Guardian investigation exposed severe labour abuses in a country where migrant workers are tethered to a single employer, often denied pay for months at a time – and even refused the right to leave the country.
In some respects it took time for its effects to become detrimental to the economy, but with subsequent outbreaks, as in 1361 and 1369, the population declined further, causing a severe labour shortage.
In this descriptive nationwide study of 177 children with severe labour-related asphyxia judged, probably to be caused by malpractice, we found insufficiencies throughout the process of treatment and care, resulting in a catastrophe for the neonate involved.
Much of his work was in criminal law, dealing especially with theft of livestock (in which cases he generally delivered a sentence of three years hard labour, severe by the standards of the day).
American student Otto Warmbier has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labour for "severe crimes" against the North Korean state.
The children and young people interviewed for the study reported numerous abuses, including brutal training regimens, hard labour and severe punishments while serving in armed groups.
"It was severe child labour, exploitation of the worst kind, all being done to 'the glory of God' which was little comfort for starved and beaten young boys.
