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396 examples of Plight in a sentence

If violent actors are the only ones constantly getting front-page covers and attracting international attention to the Palestinian issue, it becomes very hard for nonviolent leaders to make the case to their communities that civil disobedience is a viable option in addressing their plight.
In a village called Wallajeh, which sits very close to Jerusalem, the community was facing a very similar plight to Budrus.
I fled Uganda to come to the United States in the hope of sustaining a voice for my brothers and sisters who experience a more serious plight as migrants.
When I was working in the field, I brought lots of candles with me, and with the help of my interpreter, I imparted to the people I was photographing that I wanted to illuminate their stories and their plight, so when it was safe for them, and safe for me, I made these images.
I also traveled to Cape Cod to look at the plight of the North Atlantic right whale, because this to me was one of the most surprising things about my time at sea, and what it made me think about.
Ladies and gentlemen, this plight of millions of women could be changed if we think differently, if women and men think differently, if men and women in the tribal and patriarchal societies in the developing countries, if they can break a few norms of family and society, if they can abolish the discriminatory laws of the systems in their states, which go against the basic human rights of the women.
Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight and then demanding payment arrangements I can't possibly meet.
When I was 27, hearing the plight of a desperate slave father whose daughter was about to be sold to a brothel made me angry.
I have 12 grandchildren, four children, and 10 great-grandchildren, and I think often about them and about the plight that they will face in America, not only if they lived in Egypt or a foreign country, in having equal rights, and I hope that all of you will join me in being a champion for women and girls around the world and protect their human rights.
This is our plight in the 21st century: our backs hurt, our necks hurt, everything hurts, because we're stressed and tense all the time.
But when you don't fight, or take flight, you face the plight.
But this unwelcome intrusion has another effect: it alerts your body's immune system to your plight.
That was the plight of the Hallowich family.
Inspired by his plight, I helped found the mental health special interest alumni group at my college.
And to understand their plight, I want to zoom in briefly on Syria.
Moved by his plight, the wind brothers set upon the flock, providing Phineas with a brief respite from his punishment.
But the good thing to come out of this tragedy is the attention that the story brought towards the plight of threatened wild animals.
And yet, that dreadful fate is indeed the plight of somebody somewhere on Earth roughly every two weeks, because every two weeks, some elder dies and carries with him into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue.
And so we have started a global penguin society to try to focus on the real plight of penguins.
Of course, thanks to the environmentalist movement we're all sensitive to the plight of marine mammals.
While this movie was a statement of corporate greed and the plight of the worker who gets stepped on when a large company goes under, the vehicle for this would have been better served another way.
This is another Serling philosophical mood piece, perhaps paralleling the plight of those in prisoner of war or concentration camps, where the imprisoned may lose interest in finding out where they are or fighting their captors.
Water shows the plight of Indian widows in the late 1930s, says in the end that the problem still exists largely by giving statistics in the end, refers to Gandhi several times in the movie before finally having a scene depicting him and does nothing extra ordinarily innovative or new in the movie.
Runteldat shows a man who at once tries to play the sympathy card to his plight yet takes responsibility for it whenever he thinks it'll benefit his ego.
An even better example is the Hollywood leftist writer preaching to us tritely through Freeman's character, early on, about the plight of the Indians; I mean - yawn!
I feel he could of taken a person who is truly a victim of the penal system, there sure is enough of them and spread some light on their plight.
The film wastes the opportunity of sensitizing the society of the plight of low-caste women in the Indian society and ends up as a stereotype portraying Phoolan Devi as an angry woman whose sole motivation is revenge.
There is no "fun" poking fun at the desperate plight of illegal immigrants!
Or the desperate plight of head-shop owners, for that matter!
Woody and Demi's characters were naive in a sense, but I think that was very intentional to draw you to their plight and champion their decision.
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