Sentence examples for under wretched from inspiring English sources

Beyond the Syrian gates, a comparable number of civilians lived at a transit camp under wretched conditions.

There they were worked under wretched conditions, desperately lacking food, water and medicine.In a way, there were too many crimes with which Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan and many of their cohorts should have been charged.

But the filmmakers, in the documentary's most illuminating segments, also talk to two men who bought into false promises and found themselves working on an illegal crabbing boat under wretched conditions.

What these two very different writers have in common, apart from Hall of Fame-bad movies, are: Catholic upbringing; the death of their mothers under wretched circumstances; alcoholism (and, in Eszterhas's case, enough cocaine to powder the Alps); terrible encounters with death and disease.

The Tories, after their disgraceful opportunism this week (on tuition fees and just about everything else), look no more impressive than they did under the wretched Iain Duncan Smith.

Of the 6,800 commercial farms in the hands of some 4,500 white farmers at independence, about 300 are still owned and actively farmed by them, with a few hundred more still in white hands but left unproductive while their ownership is under threat.Particularly wretched is the plight of black workers on the former white-run farms.

The German excuse for the wretched under-achievement of their presidency of the European Council is that they were overtaken by Kosovo.

File this one under: Promising company, wretched IPO unless you happen to be an insider or one of the top officers lining up for a fat pay day with investors' money.

The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.

But the most wretched excuse for under-treating pain and other agonies comes from pious, sanctimonious zealots.

A wide arc of Victorian inner suburb vanished under council housing so wretched it has since had to be rebuilt.