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Example sentences for: plight

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Quoted in his own newspaper, Corriere della Sera of Milan, Gianni Agnelli, the Italian industrialist, lawyer, and senator, said Clinton's plight reminded him of what Thomas Jefferson had said when he was criticized for having a mistress: "What do they want?
In a 1998 article Herrera-Sobek discusses the use of corridos in several Mexican films that depict the plight of the illegal immigrant, or el mojado.
The Palestinian papers focused, by contrast, on the plight of the peace process, blaming the United States for the present impasse.
Each story carries President Clinton's boast that his administration has kept the boy's plight "out of politics," but the two Times dispute that statement.
The WP story details Russian attacks on civilians and highlights the plight of refugees.It reports that Chechan officials estimate that 4,000 civilians have been killed.