Sentence examples for terrible plight from inspiring English sources

Aid agency after agency has told The Independent on Sunday in the past few days of the terrible plight of these families from Somalia and Ethiopia.

The sooner that we disabuse ourselves of the notion that some elite unit, such as the SAS, can either resolve the terrible plight of these hostages or knock out the nerve centre of Isis through a couple of choice assassinations, the better.

She then goes on to say that you only have to visit the suffering villages of India to see the terrible plight of the poor, in particular the mass suicides of farmers whose land has been destroyed by mineral exploitation and industrialisation.

Although the use yesterday of the Gettysburg Address spoke to a certain continuity in American history -- earlier obstacles faced, earlier obstacles overcome -- the act of recycling treated both Lincoln's classic words and the terrible plight of those who died on 9/11 as oddly generic and interchangeable.

The Romans, accordingly, were in a terrible plight from fatigue, wounds, the heat of the sun, and thirst, and so could neither fight nor retreat, but were standing and the line and at their several posts, scorched by the heat, when suddenly many clouds gathered and a mighty rain, not without divine interposition, burst upon them.

This terrible plight must end now.

Tells about the dreadful plight of refugees.

As an outline of our terrible ecological plight, it does a first-class job.

keystothecity.uberflip.com/i/121474 — Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) April 22, 2013 But first a recap of the terrible existential plight of the current field of candidates.

The champions of the Blair-Clinton centrism of the 1990s – rather than addressing the reasons for their own terrible political plight – lash out at the new left for being impractical to the point of delusion.

For all these reasons, I understand with terrible clarity that my plight can never change.