Joe's plight would be alleviated by all palliative means medicine had to offer.
Roelf, who is endangering his life by his action, represents the death-wish of a whole generation, including white liberals, who have neither understood nor alleviated the plight of South Africa's urban poor.
This important piece of legislation required equal access to public places, outlawed discrimination in employment, and significantly alleviated the plight of minorities and women in the U.S. It is alarming to think that someone might try to circumvent this law.
Our failure to alleviate their plight is morally reprehensible.
Another group of Americans tightly grips resources that could alleviate their plight.
But other fund companies have done little to alleviate the plight of their preferred shareholders.
And humanitarian organisations are finding it hard to alleviate the plight of civilians caught up in the conflict.
In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson asserted the government's responsibility to alleviate the plight of the poor and disenfranchised.
Still, he's been right to claim that too little is being been done to alleviate the plight of the rural poor in Spain.
In his social reforms, he sought the greatest good for the greatest number and so tried to alleviate the plight of the peasantry and foster prosperity for all.
