Sentence examples for extreme plight from inspiring English sources

Consider the extreme plight of second-home owners in Saltaire, N.Y.

The exhibition is full of examples of scrambled or dismembered bodies, hyper-realistic sculptures theatricalised in some kind of extreme plight or objectification, and little sculptural tableaux and mise-en-scènes that look like so many doll's tea-parties, sex-parties, torture and autopsy parties.

One standard example of such virtue is the type of concern for those in an extreme plight shown by the late Mother Theresa, or by Doctors Without Borders.

The "negative selection" of Thomas Morus's student intake, says Mr Steffens, is "downright extreme".The plight of Turkish students has many causes, but they begin with an earlier act of negative selection, the "guest-worker" programme launched in the 1950s.

More than 1.2 billion people still lived in extreme poverty, and their plight was worsening as a result of the food and financial crises.

July's extreme heat exacerbated the plight of the rain-starved South, leading to conditions dry or drier than those that prevailed in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

"What illumination — moral, psychological, social — can be provided of either [extreme situations] or the general human condition by a writer so deeply rooted in the extremity of her plight?" he asks.

Detroit's plight may be extreme, but its problems are increasingly common in cities across the United States.

Another 1.5 billion are the 'poor', living beyond subsistence but still struggling to make ends meet, often migrating long distances for work, without routine access to safe drinking water and public health, and one generation from the plight of the extreme poor.

As represented here by Julie, the Earth Ambassadors (not incidentally an active organization), believe there remains a chance for reversal but not much of one and are therefore greatly motivated to go to extremes calling attention to the plight.

Yet both economies remain fragile.This distancing is reasonable: Greece's fiscal and economic plight is undoubtedly the most extreme.