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After all, the passion that the Palestinians’ plight evokes among ordinary Egyptians is a dangerous source of instability.
Much of the current plight of the world’s marine fisheries is a result of subsidized, industrial-scale overfishing.
At worst, it could very well spark retaliatory measures that will only exacerbate the plight of beleaguered middle-class American consumers.
It is so much easier to avert your eyes from citizens than to grapple with their plight.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
Part of the effort to reform drug policy must address the systemic faults in criminal justice, health care, and welfare that exacerbate the plight of women caught in the crossfire of the war of drugs.
These findings weigh heavily against the hypothesis that “austerity” has brought Greece to its present plight.
So spending more is not the remedy for Greece’s plight, just as spending less was not the cause.
The plight of Egypt’s public schools is a critical indicator of how Egypt’s revolution has failed its people.
And, even as their circumstances worsen and their numbers increase, their plight is going all but unreported.
One particular passage resonates with me as I contemplate Ukraine’s plight.
More importantly, the suffering of Ukraine’s people has also become more widely known, and we are no longer so alone in our plight.
Deaton suggests that far too often, Western aid serves to assuage donors’ guilt rather than improve recipients’ plight.
Our failure to alleviate their plight is morally reprehensible.
That is why it is so important that national leaders prove, right now, that they can and will tackle inequality and the plight of those who feel left behind by globalization.
The desperate plight of the world’s nearly 70 million displaced people and over 20 million refugees has just been recognized in new agreements hammered out in December this year.
The franc zone’s plight is being compounded by distorted and dysfunctional economic and monetary policies.
Vedomosti readers may sympathize with Khodorkovsky's plight, but they account for only 60 thousand people.
French governments – including the incumbent one – may have failed to respond adequately to the country’s economic plight.
One might argue that Europeans are not well informed about the plight of the Greeks and the damage that austerity has done to the country.
Rana Plaza focused international attention on the plight of Bangladesh’s four million garment workers, and their critical role in the global clothing industry.
For it is when "First Worlders" try to think about the plight of the poor, and, above all, about what can be done with regard to the Kosovos, the East Timors, the Afghanistans, and the Liberias of our planet, that thinking in happy over-simplifications becomes dangerous.
Israel is not being pressured to negotiate in good faith, and it sees no benefit to making concessions, especially as most of the world remains silent on the Palestinians’ plight.
The type of migration that attracts the most attention is the plight of refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa.
The last thing that Bush’s Republicans want is to appear indifferent to the plight of the middle classes.
As the Geneva II peace process slogs along – leaving cadavers and atrocities to pile up – Karski’s dedication to bringing the plight of Poland’s Jews to the world’s attention during World War II, despite the inertia of governments and publics, embodies exactly what Syria desperately needs.
For Turkey, Syria’s plight is a strategic nightmare, because any breakup of Syria implies the possible rise of a greater Kurdistan, which would raise claims to a great swath of Turkish territory.
The plight of the Palestinians – the victims of Zionism’s triumph – touches another neuralgic point in the European mind.
Respectable opponents of globalization avoid it in fear that they will be called racists or insensitive to the plight of the world's poorest.
Observers often blame Turkey’s deepening plight on its inability to reconcile traditional Islam and modernizing Western tendencies, as well as on external events, such as the conflict in Syria.
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