The sudden water shortage in Aleppo was the latest hardship in a particularly acute humanitarian crisis in Syria's largest city, brought on by more than a month of street fighting and weeks of air attacks.
This year's hand-wringing over tuition might be dismissed as the latest hardship for the patrician class, which, like everyone else, can simply educate its young in the public system.
The films have charted the plight of men, women, and children inside a Syrian refufee camp in Jordan, related the story of an ebola survivor in the slums of Liberia's captial, and in the latest, explore the hardships of life in Gaza. .
Perhaps he has drawn strength from his own, in the face of his late son's hardships; perhaps he is interested in marriage as an intellectual matter; but he seldom makes a major speech without insisting on the need to strengthen it: Nearly half of British births are out of wedlock, the highest rate in the West.
"When a Poet Loves a Composer" gently mocks literary snobbery ("He's highbrow in a big, big way / But when he sees that I'm / The one, he'll think that it's OK /For poetry to rhyme), "A Day Too Late" explores the hardships of dating ("You meet a man. You're looking for a hero, / Which you pretend he is. A day too late / You realise his sex appeal is zero/ And you begin to dread the second date").
I have seen all manner of anti-abortion laws, but even I am shocked by the extreme hardship the latest South Dakota legislation creates for women.
They endure all the standard hardships of late 19th century life: blizzards, scorching heat and drought, record-setting cold temperatures, endless winters, plagues of locusts, near-lethal fevers, attacks by Indians, the standard stuff.
Almost immediately, Olson warned that the program was being implemented illegally and was targeting taxpayers "facing financial hardship". Her latest report found that the IRS paid out $1 million in commissions to the bill collectors and spent an additional $19 million setting up the program.
They are the latest measures taken following prolonged financial hardship resulting from the club's relegation from the Football League in May 2012.
Note: With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the Center thought this was a good time to look at the latest figures on various indicators of hardship.
Yvonne Vera is a Zimbabwean writer in her late thirties, whose previous work has confronted the bitter hardships of her countrywomen, embroiled by the political and judicial turmoil of the past sixty years.
