Sentence examples for bitter plight from inspiring English sources

When she returns to her home town, she says, even her divorced friends sympathize with her "bitter plight," though she is a well-travelled artist and activist with exhibits, friends, and fans around the world.

Cadillac Man — he got his nickname after being struck by a Cadillac — isn't bitter about his plight.

In April he managed to insult the state's rural voters, saying they cling to their guns and religion because they are bitter about their economic plight.

But Ms. Kimelman, the daughter of Michael H. Moskow, the former longtime president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is also bitter about her family's plight.

The Boston Red Sox finished first in runs, and as discouraged as Yankees fans must feel right now, they can always revel in the plight of their bitter rivals.

Lingering questions over the country's economic plight – starting with the bitter disagreement between the EU and International Monetary Fund over how to deal with its debt mountain – have, however, engendered widespread criticism.

Now there is a movement to remedy that, in part, by re-releasing the 1964 album "Bitter Tears," a concept album about the plight of the American Indian.

Any attempt to collect more than a small share of these or the lesser sums owed by other countries would subject Eastern Europe to financial serfdom for the next generation; a plight that would be particularly bitter since the debt is a legacy of communist mismanagement, over which the public had no control.The debts should be reduced cleanly, not in a long-drawn-out battle.

Mulligan said Britain could lead the way in efforts to address the plight of children caught up in the bitter war.

Many Iraqis have left their jobs with the United States with bitter feelings, saying the Americans cared little for their plight once they stepped beyond the walls of bases to go home.

While the close relationships provide the basis for mutual support and protection (e.g. cousins are natural allies against any external threat), bitter disputes over land inheritance or indifference to the plight of poorer relatives are also common (Alavi 2001; Mohmand and Ghazdar 2007).