Sentence examples for historic plight from inspiring English sources

All the while, each side took pains to note, at least publicly, its sympathies for the other's historic plight.

Shaping his moods, if not also his character, are the vagaries of Northern Ireland's troubles, which Mr. Rea feels all the more acutely because he is a Protestant who sympathizes with the historic plight of the province's Roman Catholics and is married to Dolours Price, a former I.R.A. militant who once served time in prison.

The right to marry is indeed a civil rights issue, despite the fact that I know many African Americans bristle at the notion of comparing it to the historic plight of African Americans, or even the once ban on interracial marriages that existed in most every state in our country.

At the end of the day, despite Judge Phillips' historic ruling, the plight of our LGBTQ service members remain unchanged.

Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.

Mrs. Bush, by contrast, has broadened her policy reach, from literacy and historic preservation to AIDS in Africa and the plight of women in Afghanistan.

During his historic trip to West Berlin in the early 1960s, John Fitzgerald Kennedy stated that the plight of the citizens of West Berlin was the plight of the world and, as such, we had all become Berliners.

A visitor to Hungary invariably ends up consoling his despondent hosts as they bemoan their historic military defeats, their low birth-rate, their fellow-Hungarians' plight in neighbouring countries (since 1918 every third Hungarian has been living separated from the mother country), and so on and on.

This year, Georgia's water plight is more urgent, as a drought of historic proportions afflicts the northern part of the state.

Though the 2 million people expected to attend Obama's Jan . 20inauguration will do more damage than the park service can mitigate, advocates hope the historic ceremony will draw public attention to its little-noticed plight.

It is a National Historic Landmark, home of the American Labor Museum and the repository of memorabilia documenting the plight of working people in New Jersey and elsewhere.