Feature stories, documentaries and news reports about minors in jails have resulted in a better understanding of their plight, which moved lawmakers to urgently approve the bill.
It naturally caters to an élite foreign intelligentsia — in its hundred-and-twenty-year-old history, the hotel been host to numerous celebrity guests, from Winston Churchill and Laurence of Arabia to Graham Greene and Joan Baez — as an article on Fahmi's plight, which appeared the other day in Haaretz, suggests.
It used to be commonplace for victims of trafficking to report a lack of interest of the police in their plight, which, to her credit, May recognises as a considerable failure in the UK's domestic response to slavery.
A day earlier, finance ministers concentrated on the Greek plight, which still threatens to derail the euro zone after dragging on for more than two years.
They got bored with her plight, which was rather commonplace that year.
The result is that we sympathise with Heming, embrace his plight – which only heightens our discomfort.
Their plight, which had already attracted the sympathy of backbench MPs and the backing of unions, has now succeeded in prising open the government's purse strings.
Her Kafkaesque plight – which began when Ms Haidar refused to fill in the citizenship line of a customs form – has spurred an outpouring of support by Spanish artists and intellectuals such as film director Pedro Almodovar.
The officials working on Somalia are trying to draw more attention to the country's plight, which they feel has fallen into Darfur's shadow.
On hearing the sad tale of his plight, which he exaggerated because he was not sure Rosalie would keep her word, she also agreed to wire money.
