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12 total sentences available.
Lopez said people do not realize what is happening in their own backyard. She calls the exploitative work that robs children of their childhood unacceptable and said it must stop. She said children are the future and if people fail to protect the world's children, then there is little hope for the future.
Source: tatoeba (6992033)
Gambling needs to be looked at not as a personal failing, but as an aspect of an exploitative system.
Source: tatoeba (8508836)
Addiction is not a personal failing but an aspect of an exploitative system.
Source: tatoeba (8508837)
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s director of forestry, Mette Wilkie, said the forests and biodiversity they contain are at risk from actions to convert the land to agriculture and other exploitative usage.
Source: tatoeba (9866555)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Closest matches include bilking, coercive, exploitatory, exploiting, exploitive.
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