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Example sentences for "forced labour"

  • Those employed in royal or feudal administration, from the "superintendent of the storehouse" to the humblest scribe, though perhaps not entirely exempt from forced labour, had but a small part of it to bear.

  • This again called for a vast quantity of forced labour, often brought from afar to the points at which it was needed.

  • Finally, especially in North China, many peasants were entirely dispossessed, and their land was turned into pasturage for the Mongols' horses; the peasants themselves were put to forced labour.

  • To say that because we put a tax on the native therefore he is reduced to a condition of servitude and of forced labour is, to my mind, absolutely ridiculous.

  • What that involved is plain when we observe that such edifices were all constructed by forced labour.

  • Let the employment of the people in forced labour be at seasonable times.

  • The robot, or forced labour, varied in different localities.

  • In practice the serf would not readily relinquish the means of subsistence for himself and family, and generally preferred the burden, odious though it was, of the robot, or forced labour.

  • Urbarial courts' were instituted to inquire into the amount of compensation due to the lords of the manors who had lost the tithes and the 'forced labour' of the former serfs.

  • Imprisonment for fixed periods for special offences (forgery and outbreaks); or as alternative to indemnification or forced labour.

  • Fine (going to the State) Forced labour, without Indemnification of the victims imprisonment.

  • Forced labour, again, sends many of them to the sick-houses.

  • The first that stares us in the face, is the unnatural and destructive practice of forced labour.

  • Forced labour stands at the head of the catalogue of those nuisances belonging to slavery, which oppose the planter's gain.

  • Mexico and Peru for the needy Mother Country had given rise to serious abuses in the mines, and silver was extracted to fabulous values and sent to Spain under the system of forced labour.

  • Fellaheen were driven to forced labour on the sugar plantations in their thousands, while further thousands of their number built the Ibrahimya Canal.

  • Forced labour is abolished; government work is paid for out of the taxes; and the uniform cost of the Cédula is one peso for every male between the ages of 18 and 60 years.

  • Success could only have been achieved by forced labour, and this right was not included in the charter.

  • Prior to the passing of this law Poor Law Authorities in some of the States were already empowered to put such persons to forced labour.

  • Formerly the Labour House had its own farm, but this was separated some years ago, and it has since been conducted as an independent undertaking, though still by the aid of forced labour.

  • Even the fact that the Hebrews had lived in Egypt, and had been compelled to do forced labour for a long series of years, would of itself have raised them to a higher stage of culture.

  • At first they were tolerated; but they were now being worn down and oppressed by forced labour of the most brutal sort.


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