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Example sentences for: plight

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Cohen hits bottom when he compares the gangster Louis Lepke's flight from justice to the plight of Anne Frank, and when he compares his own grandfather to a drug dealer.
Russia's plight, says the Journal , has become the Clinton administration's main economic worry.
Where Do We Go From Here was published in 1967, and in the intervening four years, King's optimism had given way to foreboding prompted by the emergence of a white backlash and the realization that combating the economic plight of black America would prove far more difficult than eliminating segregation.
Actually, the Shopping Avenger swung into action even before he knew of A.'s plight, since A.'s girlfriend had secretly forwarded A.'s Shopping Avenger complaint to Ticketmaster.
When nationalists assassinated the prime minister and six others last month, observers attributed the killings to Armenia's continued economic plight and disagreements over how to deal with Nagorno-Karabakh.