Sentence examples for extraordinary plight from inspiring English sources

On Friday she will travel to Uganda to witness the extraordinary plight of children affected by conflict in the north, especially the so-called "night commuters" – children who must leave their villages and head to larger towns each evening to seek protection from rebel abductions.

Her courage and determination are extraordinary; she says of her plight that "There is more to life than death.

The extraordinary international response to the plight of children caught up in the humanitarian emergency in and around Kosovo -- a situation that will persist long after the conflict ends -- shows what the world can do when it summons the will to act decisively.

But in the school district that includes East Palo Alto, located amid the extraordinary wealth generated by the tech industry, their plight is not uncommon.

There were those who did violence to memory and reason by comparing the Israel Defense Forces (who behaved with extraordinary tact and compassion) to Nazis, and their own plight to the destruction of European Jewry.

4. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household If The Thirty-Nine Steps showed the plight of an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances, Household's classic 1939 thriller updated the formula by making the hero a trained killer.

"We've always worked with big celebrities like George Clooney or Angelina Jolie, but we really wanted to work with new media ambassadors - ordinary people with extraordinary followers"..@humansofny thank you #HONY for helping us raise awareness on the plight of so many #children & families within #Iraq.

In Walter Isaacson's brutal biography of Steve Jobs, he portrays a brilliant-but-flawed man-child whose extraordinary narcissism made him virtually incapable of empathy, which is the ability to understand the plight of others.

The second is the extraordinary friendliness and politeness of desperate people whose lives have been devastated, so often happy to discuss their plight despite suffering terrible tragedies and unspeakable horrors.

The Cockburn brothers make no suggestion at all beyond stressing the urgency of doing something to help the plight of the Iraqi people.In fact, the real strength of both books lies in their extraordinary reporting.

Big Sandy has become somewhat of a symbol of the plight of the coal industry nationwide, as consumption of coal by major American power companies has declined at an extraordinary rate this year.