Sentence examples for plight back from inspiring English sources

With soccer in desperate financial plight back home, with Argentina's overseas players preparing for the new club season in Europe and strikers Lionel Messi and Carlos Tévez nursing injuries, Maradona's plans were in disarray.

The reason for Japan's plight stretches back decades.

Aleppo's current plight traces back to Russia's military intervention in Syria, launched in September 2015, which has radically changed the balance of forces.

These tend to be more useful for a chancellor who wants to highlight the remote causes of the country's economic plight, and back in 2011 George Osborne did indeed promise we would "ride out the storm".

In many ways, the DRC's plight hearkens back to colonialism and chartered companies empowered to make war in order to capture resources.

In the east, this glitzy development is met with a legacy of visceral urban plight dating back to the 1960s: low-income housing, racial tensions between the black and Jewish populations, and, most notably, gun violence.

It would be nice to think that any would-be ethnic warrior, seeing Mr Milosevic's plight, would draw back and try talking instead.

As Weiwei noted in his recent exhibition of discarded refugee clothes, Laundromat, their plight takes him back to his own childhood experience as a refugee, when his father was denounced as a "rightist" by China's communist party.

I was moved by his plight, but seldom called back - there was no more I could do for him.

The shooting of 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai a year ago, and her subsequent nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize, put the plight of Pakistani girls back in the spotlight.

Nixon transformed the Court from an institution that had begun to face the plight of the individual back into an institution that would uphold the power of the state.