Sentence examples for plight to get from inspiring English sources

"We're really proud of the plucky little fella and his plight to get home for Christmas," said Richard Brim, executive creative director at adam&eveDDB.

Ahead of the attack, Israeli government officials, including the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, warned Hizbullah against exploiting the Assad regime's plight to get better weapons.Israel has increased its incursions into Lebanese airspace and has sent reinforcements, including anti-missile batteries, to its northern border with Lebanon and Syria.

"Surviving" follows one woman's plight to get her daughter off the streets in Oakland, California.

The video was only the beginning of Katherine's four-year plight to get her parents released and to stop their deportation.

Gatsby was able to gain his wealth through unscrupulous means, was manipulative and untruthful about his background even his name was fake and he basically had obsessive tendencies in his plight to get the attention of a woman he loved.

Abusive calls and letters kept coming in, she says, but in the open atmosphere at Philip Morris she was able for the first time to talk to her superiors about her plight and to get help.

In that desperate plight, he tried again to get assignments from Hollywood.

In Britain, people seem moved by the plight of Ray, trying to get back on the straight and narrow after being diagnosed schizophrenic; in New York, an elderly audience member explained: "People think he's a bum".

Funded by the Service Employees International Union, the so-called Fight for $15 movement has shined a light on the plight of workers trying to get by on as little as $7.25 an hour.

She was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 after drawing attention to her own plight and the plight of girls like her, to get an education.

Statistically invisible (it is against the law and republican principle to collect data based on race or ethnicity) and politically unrepresented (mainland France does not have a single non-white MP), their aim has been simply to get their plight acknowledged.