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Mr. Wakshlag said the audience for the miners was probably higher because the nation had been following their plight over the course of several days.

This time Labour has seized upon her present plight, over alleged flaws in her expenses claims, and called for her to step down.

Stephens' difficulties with his own daughter, Zoe, therefore become more significant to the narrative, paralleling the town's plight over losing so many children.

However, after the group published the images on Facebook, they suffered a backlash from Palestinians and supporters of their plight over their unusual campaign tactics, according to The Local.

Sandra very often repeats herself as she explains her plight over and over to her sometimes sympathetic, sometimes hostile coworkers, but rather than grating, the repetition of dialogue serves to heighten her desperation.

As sacked employees of ERT Hellenic Radioo and Television) continued to occupy the Greek state broadcaster's headquarters, streaming live coverage of their plight over the internet, scores of former colleagues peacefully set up camp in a park outside the ERT building in Agia Paraskevi, a suburb of Athens.Support has poured in.

The killing of over 70,000 people and the plight of over a million refugees have elicited sympathy from the White House but not much more.

In this week's "Forgotten Fact," The WorldPost talks with human rights experts and monitors about the plight of the over 6.5 million who make up the "internally displaced population" within Syria.

I visited Bangui in the Central African Republic on the eve of the commemoration in Kigali to rally support for the country, which over the past decade has struggled for global awareness of its plight, and over the past year has suffered the collapse of the state, a descent into lawlessness, and gruesome mass killing that has instilled widespread terror and sparked an exodus.

Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.

The only news since has been a statement by her captors that they would like to swap her for some imprisoned guerrilla commanders.The author's plight hangs over this memoir, which first appeared in French last year.