Hard labor at low pay over a lifetime takes its toll on a person.
In 1945, Avital weighed 70 pounds after a two-year period of starvation and hard labor in six concentration camps.
The man, John William Yettaw, was sentenced to seven years of hard labor.
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Currently, two American reporters are being held hostage, "sentenced" last week by North Korea to 12 years of hard labor.
These are women whose entire lives will be dominated by hard labor and pitiful wages, their contribution to society unrecognized.
The reporters' arrest, show trial and subsequent imprisonment (twelve years hard labor) was hostage taking, essentially an act of state terrorism.
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Now he is in jail, sentenced to five years of hard labor on what human rights activists say are trumped up charges.
They were sentenced to 12 years' hard labor before being released in August 2009 after an intervention by former President Bill Clinton.
By then, an estimated 100 million people had become victims--killed, imprisoned (10 years in solitary for me), persecuted, sent to hard labor.
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Acting out in some way that would see light treatment in civilian life could trigger a loss of rank, freedom, and hard labor.
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Kenneth Bae was ordered to serve hard labor for crimes against the state in a case that complicates strained ties between Pyongyang and Washington.
This time, Knowlton was sentenced to three months of hard labor.
He might have been condemned to hard labor in a limestone quarry, but Mandela's unyielding moral stance held him high on a pedestal to his followers.
An American, John William Yettaw, who swam two miles to her home on May 3 and prompted the case, was sentenced to seven years of hard labor.
Yettaw -- who, uninvited, swam two miles to Suu Kyi's home on May 3 and prompted the case -- was sentenced to seven years of hard labor.
The reward for four days' hard labor was inside information.
Under North Korean law, defectors face a minimum of five years of hard labor and as much as life in prison or the death penalty in cases deemed particularly serious.
Chinese factory workers are increasingly aware that the Chinese export tsunami results in huge inflows of funds back to China, but they do not see the fruits of their hard labor.
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Human beings as we know them are excited by every development in their offspring, because what purpose is there for the hard labor of parenthood if not to send forth an independent, productive adult who can satisfy his own needs?
Cured in marble basins with salt to draw out water and protect against bacterial growth (herbs such as anise were added for flavor), they were put on bread and eaten as a rich source of energy for a day of hard labor.
But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.
Or will the ruling mullahs labor hard to tackle some of the grievances of dissidents, such as relaxing state control over Iranians' lives and improving their economic well being?
Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach for people of every color and creed.
Income from labor is hard to hide and easy to tax, as the middle class knows full well.
Even assuming gains for the UMP in June, Sarkozy could face a hard slog dismantling entrenched labor protections -- such as five weeks of guaranteed vacation -- that unions have fought tooth-and-nail to keep.
"I have a hard time seeing big labor returning to Wisconsin this fall to put in a lot of effort for President Obama since he didn't show up there for them this year, " said Fleischer, a CNN contributor.
Instead transcending capitalism requires a critical mass of people who have experienced- not the change of mind that our business schools labor so hard to produce- but the change of heart that we usually associate with a spiritual experience.
Some academic researchers say it is hard to quantify an actual labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, in part because there is so little evidence of a decline in production.
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"Consumers who believe that buying counterfeits is socially acceptable should consider whether they condone the use of their hard earned money to fund child labor, the international sex trade, human trafficking and other heinous illegal activity, " he told CNN.
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