Jewish himself, Rybakov wrote of the plight of Russian Jews confronting Nazi invaders during World War II in Tyazhyoly pesok (1979; Heavy Sand), an epic novel that brought him an international audience.
The idea of "fair" trade is very appealing, whether confronting the plight of autoworkers in Michigan or farmers in the Third World.
Today, when that desperate plight is no longer either desperate or a plight, new problems confront the Jewish people.
Mr. Romney's campaign has responded by focusing its efforts on the economic plight that confronts many women.
Oft looking to find it Confronting despair Ashamed of doubting My plight, my dark lair.
They are insisting on speaking out, trying to get the country to confront their plight.
The clarity of Mr. Stein's staging also underscores Kovalyov's plight as an individual confronted by a hostile society, as he suffers repeated rebuffs in trying to regain his lost appendage.
It was the songs that Mariam wrote at the blind school that first attracted Amadou to her, in particular "Teree la Sebin" ("Certificate of Misfortune"), which confronts the plight of the disabled: "You who see me before you/ Have put in my head, A certificate of misfortune… I blame nothing but my malady/ The malady that made me blind".
In 2007, Pakistan was forced to confront the plight of trans men in the case of Shumail Raj and Shahzina Tariq.
The short films feature some of the biggest challenges facing Haiti's children: losing parents to the earthquake; the plight of a girl working as a restavek, a domestic servant; and the challenges, especially economic, confronting families when they send their children to school.
