Sentence examples for plight in the first from inspiring English sources

But few present a challenge to the systems that created their plight in the first place.

She described her plight in the first part of this series, which is profiling the people on a single city block as they confront tough economic times in New York.

Yesterday, lawyers for Mr. Thomas's estate and for Mr. Figeroux claimed they performed valuable work by drawing attention to Mr. Louima's plight in the first weeks after he was sodomized with a broken broomstick by an officer, Justin A. Volpe.

On Saturday BBC2 airs BalletBoyz: Young Men, a feature-length film from the company about the plight of soldiers in the first world war, for which Henson has contributed the score.

The other was a report by Oxfam, a British charity, on the plight of people in the third world, too poor to buy the western medicines they need to stay healthy.

The book which tracks one, slightly eccentric, family's plight in the face of a third world war has been close to my heart for a long time and I haven't yet managed to pluck up the courage to see it as I love the text version so much.

In the first I wrote about the ecological plight of the eel and the scale of the trade.

One school of thought blames the plight of the poor in the Third World on cultural factors.

Mr. Meyers, in that quick dig on April 30, captured the plight of the third-term mayor.

According to Mr Collins, fourth-stage companies that react frantically to their plight in the belief that salvation lies in revolutionary change usually only hasten their demise.

But as a third-generation doctor, he also viewed his ancestor's plight in the light of medical ethics.