"present plight" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a statement of the current situation or circumstances. You could use it for example in a sentence such as: "The company is in a present plight, having lost several key customers recently."
But it's also possible that Phillips is more responsible for the team's present plight.
And sadly, he and his family are a testament to the country's present plight.
But the present plight of democracy is also a consequence of typical democratic complacency.
And now he claims it's the stars which, at his birth, decided his present plight.
Sadly, he and his family are a testament to the country's present plight.
Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley insists the club have no intention of feeling sorry for themselves over their present plight.
In Britain's present financial plight shouldn't we jump at it?
El luto humano (1943; Human Mourning, also translated as The Stone Knife) is a powerful novel that uses flashbacks and interior monologues to present the plight of rural Mexicans from the pre-Columbian period up to the 1930s.
So far, reflecting the mood of voters, it has restrained itself in deploring in public the cruel demands of the IMF.In its present dreadful plight, Argentina should not be abandoned.
If playwright David Williamson's revamped version of The Club – set at the Collingwood football club in the 70's – wasn't already touring, a straight telling of their present-day plight would entertain equally.
"We will not accept that the tragedy of Al Andalus will be repeated in Palestine," Zawahiri said, drawing an analogy between the expulsion of the Moors from Iberia and the present-day plight of the Palestinians.
