As in other European countries, most Dutch voters, however horrified by the plight of refugees, do not want to accept many more of them.
To get help, the plight of Kentuckians did not have to rise to a national scandal like the Paducah plant's contaminated workers.
But critics have complained that they did not delay the effective date of the increases, did not deliberate in public, did not aggressively draw attention to the plight of their students, did not beg for action.
In the capital, the Living Wage campaign, run by London Citizens, a coalition of religious leaders, community activists and trades unionists, was launched a decade ago to highlight the plight of many workers doing jobs essential to the smooth running of London.
When Frederick Douglass made his famous speech where he said that freedom requires rain and thunder and lightning, what he was talking about was that you have to do a lot of nasty and uncomfortable things to bring the plight of folks who don't have freedom to the national attention.
One government paramedic, his desk standing in the rainwater that leaks through the roof, confesses that he sometimes prescribes vitamin pills for the sake of it, because his patients do not expect to leave his clinic empty-handed.Efforts to tackle the plight of the poor do not always win their favour.
In Part One: The Biography of Jun Do, the plight of an orphan, Jun Do (John Doe), raised in the Long Tomorrows orphanage by an Orphan Master who may be his father.
"Why did you ask us to pick you up here if we have to go to your house anyway?" This is the plight of people who don't rent a house or reserve a room: they bring camping mattresses or else take the seat cushions from their buses so that when night rolls around they have a place to sleep.
The plight of the Almighty does not trouble everyone.
There they'd have found the solution to the plight of American masculinity: don't grow up.
