At the same time, it is also important, however, to draw attention to the abominable conditions in the social and environmental spheres.

After working in these abominable conditions for a long time, workers' health is utterly devastated."

"They're immigrants, earning $2 or $3 an hour with no health benefits, working under abominable conditions.

The Afars' leader is in jail, without trial, with his supporters in abominable conditions.

Even though prisoners lived under what today would be abominable conditions very few became ill or died, said Karin Peterson, the museum director.

Hundreds more priests were imprisoned and made to suffer in abominable conditions in the port of Rochefort.

So I hope that you will all support this resolution condemning the abominable conditions of prisoners and civilians in Djibouti.

Lawyers regularly charge that criminals are held under abominable conditions and are regularly beaten and tortured by the police.

"During the first war, which he spent almost entirely at the front, living like Léger in abominable conditions, Dix displayed no signs of rebellion or pacifism.

Residents sweltered in abominable conditions; senior citizens were trapped in their apartments without food or water because elevators and water pumps were not running.

As the Chinese prepare to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution we should not be surprised that students have taken to the streets to protest abominable conditions.

In 1886, Lutheran missionaries came to Cooktown to establish a secure place for the Aboriginal people who were living in abominable conditions on the edge of the town.

It is meanwhile the case that we have been turning a blind eye to the fact that people working illegally on our markets under the most abominable conditions are almost kept as slaves.

Major operators in Alabama's coalfields were also still using convict labor under abominable conditions with no salary cost whatsoever, the convict leasing system, described by some as "Slavery by Another Name".

LEAD: To the Editor: In the mid-19th century, she learned that psychotic and mentally deficient people were housed (often chained) in sheds and subjected to abominable conditions in jails and almshouses.

The judge had said she felt compelled to take drastic action against the city after making an unannounced visit to the Emergency Assistance Unit office at 151 East 151st Street in Mott Haven and finding families forced to wait in abominable conditions.

But why did that portrayal make no mention of the abominable conditions that the inhabitants had endured before their "occupation," of families starving in shelters pieced together from the remnants of cardboard boxes until the Salazars arrived and replaced them with permanent dwellings?

The Kandyan villagers were forced to abandon their traditional way of life and become wage-workers in the abominable conditions that prevailed on these new estates and plantations that had been introduced, despite all the pressure exerted by the colonials the Kandyans refused.

The current system has been in place since the 19th century, when abominable conditions in public almshouses led New York to turn to private agencies, and during the last century a citywide network has grown up that now includes 68 agencies that care for most of the city's 43,000 foster children.

JL 14 is so right: we all want as much as possible as cheaply as possible and then wonder why there is so much child labour in third-world countries, why our bookshops are going to pot, why our chickens are produced under abominable conditions and so on.