Sentence examples for vicious system from inspiring English sources

Half of the talent and energy and drive of the nation was going to waste as a result of a vicious system of so-called élite education.

That might have been the end of the story, except that this is South Africa, the country that ended a vicious system of racial segregation 16 years ago to create a noisy, fractious, vibrant democracy.

In the grand scale of history, it is a mere blink of an eye since the time Americans owned other human beings, maintained a vicious system of racial apartheid, forbade women from owning property or voting, saw homosexuality as a crime, and so on.

The Conservative minister said it was "not a nasty vicious system", as he was questioned about the critical reaction to welfare changes, including from the Roman Catholic church.

It's really an unfair, evil, vicious system that works against migrants in every aspect.

If Canadian liberalism is still worth a damn, it will proactively prevent vulnerable families from being thrown into a vicious system that separates children from their guardians and often loses track of them entirely.

That poverty, entrenched in a vicious caste system, is the tinder lit by the Maoists.

"This is the country that has the most vicious tracking system in the world because we start to do it so young," Mr. Tucker said.

5. Kira (We the Living) loses everyone and everything she loves to a vicious totalitarian system, but retains her passionate love for life.

Maybe Congress should consider not giving "aid and comfort" to as vicious a system as the one that governs the Romanian people today.

Maybe we should be guided by the words of the Nobel Prize winner, Bishop Tutu, who only recently chided President Reagan for "giving aid and comfort to as vicious a system as apartheid".