Sentence examples for failed plight from inspiring English sources

But in England mourning the failed plight of the country's football team has almost become a national sport itself.

Dear Editor, As a longtime reader of your wonderful publication, I knew that it could only be an oversight on your part that you have failed to mention the plight of Jews in Russia in your recent article on the Soviet Union.

When that failed, they seized on the plight of the "uitlanders"—the foreign, mostly British, miners in Johannesburg, who were denied the right to vote under Transvaal law.

It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years," Zappardino said, quoting King.

While the government appears uninterested in tackling such issues, the main opposition parties in the country have also failed to effectively tackle the plight facing the minorities.

America, he went on, "has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years".

So far, however, the president has failed to act or speak out about their plight.

Mrs Skeet's plight led to accusations that the government failed to act to resolve the crisis caused by the flu bug which gripped the NHS last winter.

Later Cooke tried – and failed – to get a film commissioned about the desperate plight of the planet's amphibians; a third of which are threatened with extinction, a situation she likens to the wiping out of the dinosaurs.

Beyond the science, the Search for Lost Frogs achieved something that I had previously failed to do in my attempts to communicate the plight of amphibians – it captured the imagination of the global public.