Or was it just that the axe was in abominable condition?

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

He said he was shocked to see "conditions so abominable that one cannot describe them without embarrassment."

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

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.

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

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

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.