Pragmatic Conservative council leaders and MPs have long privately complained that George Osborne's narrow focus ignored the plight of those unable to pay an average rent, let alone find a £5,000 deposit for a new home, even with generous government subsidies.
A well-informed Congressional staff member said this was done to appease advocates who were focused not on the broad moves to democracy but on narrower grievances like the plight of ethnic minorities or the exploitation of Burma's oil and gas.
Official statistics fail to record anyone whose plight falls outside the narrow criteria for being homeless – for example, being under-18, being pregnant or a victim of domestic violence – which would force councils to help.
Like so many contemporary crime narratives ("Pulp Fiction" comes instantly to mind), Johnson's new novel, "Nobody Move," keeps a narrow focus, homing in on the plight of Jimmy Luntz, a barbershop chorus singer, compulsive gambler and Steve Buscemi type who owes money to a guy named Ernest Gambol, who collects for a guy — a dealer of some sort — named Juarez.
In traditional rural communities, women have to face a plight that resulted in a narrow "space of birth choice" caused by the family planning policy and strong "son preference" culture (Guangzong and Wei 1995), women's right to make a fertility choice might be subject to double deprivation.
Leading handset manufacturers are loathe to totally give up their role in software development, fearing that Microsoft's entry into the smartphone sector might doom them to the plight of PC makers, selling commodity hardware products with narrow profit margins.
That a Republican president and one of the nation's premier liberal groups share a slogan reflects the recent narrowing of the education debate to focus almost exclusively on the plight of poor, minority children in inner-city schools.
In Britain, people seem moved by the plight of Ray, trying to get back on the straight and narrow after being diagnosed schizophrenic; in New York, an elderly audience member explained: "People think he's a bum".
Four decades later, America was transfixed by the plight of Jessica McClure — Baby Jessica — the eighteen-month-old who fell into a narrow well in Texas, in October , 1987 triggering a fifty-eight-hour rescue operation.
The action centres on the plight of Lizaveta, a young peasant woman powerfully brought to life by Ony Uhiara, whose narrow existence chopping carrots and slaughtering sheep alongside her outwardly adoring husband in their remote farmstead is shattered by the arrival of an unknown war.
