Sentence examples for personal straits from inspiring English sources

In times of mass violent death, individuals in drastic personal straits look tabloid.

Following private correspondence with Jacobi on the issue and an extended period when Jacobi (in personal straits at the time) did not respond to his objections, Mendelssohn attempted to set the record straight about Lessing's Spinozism in Morning Hours.

Nevertheless, Wagner was in grim personal straits, isolated from the German musical world and without any regular income.

Such was the perceived threat behind the banning of these works that even works that had avoided censure were no longer programmed: by August 1948, Prokofiev was in severe financial straits, his personal debt amounting to 180,000 rubles.

Khodorkovsky confronts dire financial straits personally, too: in addition to a potential 10-year jail sentence, he faces a $700 million personal tax bill.

Mr Ma, however, has tried to stamp his personal authority on cross-strait relations with his choice of chairman for the government's China-policy department, the Mainland Affairs Council.

Other Ness critics say his personal shortcomings contradict the strait-laced, incorruptible persona that brought him fame.

Prosecutors said he had solicited contributions with mailers falsely claiming that he was in financial straits and had used the money for personal investments and gambling trips.

Phytoplankton Fv/Fm in the East River tidal strait was lower compared to measurements in the Long Island Sound (personal communication with Matt Lyman, CT DEEP).

The Straits Times (ST) said that Millennials are increasingly moonlighting as online personal shoppers or drivers for car-hailing firms like Didi Chuxing in China by means of internet economy.

Asked by The Straits Times about her performance, Tao said, "If I have given another personal best, it would not have gotten me a medal.