Sentence examples for wretched history from inspiring English sources

The victim has been visiting a woman prisoner with a wretched history and trying to uncover her childhood memories.

While any American ought to be humble in discussing Vietnam, given our country's wretched history there, the fact is that it doesn't have much to teach a democrat.

And while conditions in the housing market remain wretched, history has shown a tendency for stocks to rally before any hint of a recovery.

If this charge is substantiated, it marks another new low in the wretched history of the failure to protect victims of abuse.

"In the all too long, sad and wretched history of man's inhumanity to man, the Pionirska Street and Bikavac fires must rank high".

Meanwhile, the government's inability to run a fiscal surplus in years of booming growth has precluded it from cutting taxes to ease a recession.Thanks to Argentina's wretched history of inflation and mismanagement, its currency board still enjoys broad support.

While Korea's future may look bright and shiny, the country has one of the world's more wretched histories on file: 1,700 years of intense slavery, then repeated brutalizations, first by China; later, during the Japanese conquest from 1910 to the end of World War II; and most recently during the Korean War, when the peninsula served as a scrimmage field for Russian-American aggressions.

No one expects former Prime Minister Tony Blair to face the justice that he denied to millions of Iraqis who are still enduring the ugliest chapter in their history; a wretched chronicle of grief and oppression over the past two decades.

The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, who routinely referred to black people as "niggers" and who frequently found himself in trouble with the law.

Snyder maintains that too much emphasis has been placed on the ferocity of indigenous anti-Semitism; that it was instead the destruction of Eastern European states by the Nazis, and then the skillful "political" exploitation of their wretched recent history, which made their lands into killing grounds and a small number of their people into executioners.

The real Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, has a wretched, perverse history: the gang is thought to have been started in the 1980s in Los Angeles by Salvadoran immigrants whose families had fled the civil war in their country, a war partly paid for by the United States.