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Example sentences for: plight

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If W. were to learn even a little about JQA's unhappy plight, he might well realize the virtues of psychological self-analysis.
After much go-around, J.D. called American Express, told them his plight, and Amex canceled the entire charge.
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?
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.
The pale pink stone house is unassuming, but the interior tells of the plight of slaves on the islands and of the positive work that was undertaken in the years following emancipation.