Sentence examples for plight before from inspiring English sources

Few protesters were at the canal today, but some took their plight before the county commission and to a local mall for a town meeting this afternoon.

Public hospital officials are concerned that the health care legislation being negotiated in Washington could worsen their plight before making it better.

Tony Judt's plight before his death last August was not as extreme as that of Jean-Dominique Bauby (who communicated "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" a letter at a time, by blinking an eye), but by any reasonable standards, it was ­devastating.

A22 Legal Victory for Pinochet A Chilean court ruled that General Augusto Pinochet should be examined in a military hospital, where the staff is thought to be sympathetic to his plight, before facing a trial on charges of kidnapping and murder.

It pointed out that despite the paper's claims, the local Citizen's Advice Bureau had asked the undercover reporter a series of detailed questions in good faith about his "plight" before referring him to the food bank, which gave him enough food to last for three days.

Years before, the plight of those in southern Sudan had been directly pressed upon Bush by the Evangelical right (many of whom wanted to arm Christian rebels in the south in an effort to protect them from the Muslim Sudanese government).

I have been in schools for 25 years and have never lost sleep before over the plight of our children before, which I do now.

Is the plight of women before receiving the vote similar to the starving of Kolyma prisoners, who scrambled in the ice to eat prehistoric amphibians?

We can help by negating this claim, and raising global awareness for the crisis-level plight of rhinos before it is too late.

But never before has the plight of an endangered species threatened to cut into a large city's supply of drinking water.

The Pope also mentioned the persecution faced by Christians living in the Middle East, whose plight he has been vocal about before.