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Stuart Sternberg, whose Tampa Bay Rays have helped upend the conventional wisdom that small-market teams with small payrolls cannot compete, spoke of the plight facing his team and the Marlins.

In a letter published on Tuesday by the Vatican, Francis said he had "met so many women who bear in their heart the scar of this agonising and painful decision", and described the plight facing women who terminated pregnancies as an "existential and moral ordeal".

Keen to show that he is aware of the plight facing young couples trying to get on the housing ladder, Healey talks of a Merseyside visit last week to underline the fruits of another government initiative, Homebuy Direct, designed to get more young people on to the housing ladder.

While Norcia produces only a fraction of Italy's prosciutto, the plight facing Fausti and others is reminiscent of the crisis that beset parmigiano makers in 2012, after a 6-magnitude quake north of Bologna killed seven people and sent 300,000 wheels of cheese crashing to the floor, costing the industry an estimated €80m.

Indeed, the survey, by the Center for Science Research and Statistics, a Moscow-based think tank, suggests that the public knows all too well the plight facing many of today's scientists: Scrambling for subsistence income by doing odd jobs outside their labs.

In short, when she speaks about the plight facing low and middle income Americans, she speaks from experience not from the penthouse of Trump Tower.

This parallels the plight faced by the homosexual community, one of "staying in the closet".

Nilda Louisa's story is emblematic of the plight faced by thousands upon thousands of low-income families.

The government rightly stated that the figures were "unlikely to show the full scale" of the plight faced by children across the UK.

McKellen said that for him the film was an eye-opening insight into the scale of the prejudice against gay Asians that exists today which reminded him of the plight faced by the gay community 30 years ago.

Whether the Apple Watch and 2015's crop of smartwatches are able to overcome the plight faced by wearable technology this year, when a third of US users abandoned their devices within six months of buying them, is another matter.