Sentence examples for plight of war from inspiring English sources

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was the first of the two Isao Takahata films being screened, the other being the Grave of the Fireflies (1988) – a politically scathing and harrowingly candid portrayal of the plight of war orphans during the second world war.

He had no attachment.'' For de Zulueta, the parallel that Abe draws between the plight of war orphans, human and elephant, is painfully apt, yet also provides some cause for hope, given the often startling capacity of both animals for recovery.

Ms. Bagchi is choreographing a recital combining both elements to explain the plight of war-torn Kashmir.

Again, the plight of war-ravaged Afghanistan is largely window-dressing for the journey of our war-reporter heroine, Tina Fey, a fortysomething singleton who is pitched into the battlefield and the hard-partying expat "Kabubble".

After senior government officials said they would ban the march, Islam4UK announced on Sunday that it had abandoned its plan after concluding that it had drawn attention to the plight of the war's Muslim victims.

Although the plight of the war generation single mothers was only one factor, in 1986 the government passed the Marriage and Family Law, which for the first time recognized single mothers and their children as legally legitimate.

Ryan Roco, a human rights researcher who has documented the plight of the war's displaced, said he had learned that at least 4,200 Kachin were being forced out of six camps in Yunnan Province, China, and back into Myanmar.

Her travels also brought her into direct contact with the far worse plight of other war refugees, including Jewish asylum-seekers who were leaving Romania aboard the Struma.

Walter comes up with a far fetched story about the paintings representing the plight of post-war orphans in Germany.

The cast and crew of The Railway Man have urged for wider understanding of the plight of prisoners-of-war working on the Burma railway during the second world war.

A3 Expanding U.N. Refugee Aid The leading United Nations relief official, Carolyn McAskie, said she wanted to look for ways to bring United Nations agencies into a common effort to pay more attention to the plight of victims of war known as "internally displaced persons" -- who are not refugees because they have not crossed international borders.