One of Cumbria's most famous sons is highlighting the plight of the region's threatened farmland birds. |
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But behind the latest official displays of concern lie the same indifference for the plight of the Asian masses. |
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It will be the first time the heavily indebted company has acknowledged the regulatory concerns over its financial plight. |
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The budget on Thursday will come amid a week of reminders of the nation's fiscal plight. |
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The plight of Mountain Rivera is a common tragedy, repeated in familiar ways time and time again. |
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The smokers in the room were most appreciative of her cognisance of their plight! |
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What kind of message is that to our children about the plight of the differently abled? |
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Simm plays a human rights researcher investigating the plight of women being trafficked through Europe. |
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I am also aware of the plight of some of the people in the position she is talking about. |
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He is trying to raise public awareness about her plight in order to win some state-sanctioned clemency, but it might be too late. |
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You are drawn to the plight of the bird in the air pump, the sad and frightened girls and the wild eyes of the quack scientist. |
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Where's the understanding or sympathy for the desperate plight of other humans beings, and the willingness to put ourselves in their place? |
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The climb to the top of the 450 ft sea stack was to raise money and awareness of the plight facing patients with kidney problems. |
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The Minister has shown absolute disregard and displayed total indifference to the plight of people living in this area. |
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Firefighters are urging people interested in their plight to call at the station and express an interest. |
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People travel on false passports and do all the things he disparages because of the plight they are in. |
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The plight of many asylum-seekers, their desperation and their statelessness, has in the past been summed up by their lack of documentation. |
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This quixotic politician became obsessed with the plight of Afghanistan, the Afghan people, and with taking the fight to the Soviets directly. |
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For a man with nationalist sympathies, he clearly shed few tears for the Prime Minister's plight. |
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One can't help feeling sympathy with his plight, and admiration for the way he meets his end. |
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It is both enjoyable and a corrective to stereotyped views of the ' plight ' of women writers in the period. |
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Last Sunday I watched an exceptionally well-done TV documentary featuring the plight of school-age children of migrant workers. |
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Instead, he chose to illustrate the plight of an overloaded and tired hatcheck girl from her view of the festivities. |
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Argentina's plight provides an invaluable case study on the dangers of adhering to untenable policies. |
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The plight of the orangutans is very moving and we felt the foundation would be a very appropriate place to raise funds for. |
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Lizzie's plight was not helped by the death in the past month of her doting dad, Seamus. |
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A small Yorkshire charity has been helping the plight of Romanian orphans for the past decade. |
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The final four minutes of the movie displays the plight of the kid, and ends with the child crying helplessly. |
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Consider the plight of the millions of orphans left behind when AIDS strikes down their parents and other relatives. |
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The financial plight of the company means it is insolvent and has been losing rafts of money. |
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His paper offers additional evidence about the economic plight of qualified French Canadian hockey players. |
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The plight of other sciences like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics however, has not been recognised. |
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And indeed, Elisabetta's plight in Don Carlo is painted with a broad brush. |
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Supporters have been assured that none of the money will be swallowed up by the club's current plight which has seen it go into administration. |
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Did the plight of the boat people refine his understanding of how the hot war played out in the Cold War? |
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The coastguard remains unaware of their plight because the boat radio has a working range of 6ft. |
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Reasonable walkers have sympathy with the plight of many farmers and have avoided walking on agricultural land. |
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When the Government deserts them, who else is there to listen to the plight of the lottery people? |
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There is no such coverage and hence no such understanding of the plight of, for example, Afghans or Congolese. |
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Sports widows will probably relate to Lindsey's plight, and long-suffering fans of many teams will see reflections of themselves in Ben. |
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But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed. |
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More airy-fairy in those days perhaps, he was one of a number of MPs who highlighted their plight. |
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A group of the boy's friends stood behind the two, laughing derisively at Mike's plight. |
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Unions and pension bodies have been particularly concerned about the plight of workers whose firms close with the pension scheme in deficit. |
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Other times, she was calmer and seemed almost wise, sensible, and compassionate to their plight. |
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Perhaps I was particularly sensitive to his plight, having watched my parent's generation laid waste by decrepitude and death. |
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Ehrenreich's book investigates the plight of some of the low-wage workers studied by the EPI report. |
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The plight of the reinsurers will have a knock-on effect on insurance markets everywhere. |
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How you got over your troubles does not necessarily provide an insight into another's plight. |
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He was sent to prison, where he wrote a letter about his plight to the New York Citizen newspaper. |
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Katy has cerebral palsy, kidney problems and learning difficulties but Mr Hulme is not swayed by her plight. |
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Kelly was completely responsible for his own plight, and was wrong to be a whistleblower. |
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At times he sounds like the great EB White, a gentle man consumed with the plight of the world but alive to the simple pleasures. |
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I was only a few paces down the lane when the full impact of the crow's plight registered in my mind. |
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The plight of Aboriginal people today has just as much to do with the past as with the present. |
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Yet for real hard yakka the plight of the servants, valets and other assorted members of staff stands alone. |
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Indicative of the plight of the economy, in August 1993 Cuba amended its constitution to allow its citizens to deal in the hated Yanqui dollar. |
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The book chronicles in vivid detail the boy's plight, starting with the relocation of his family to the Warsaw Ghetto. |
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Her plight is merely a bureaucratic blunder but she has left it too late to save the day. |
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Already, its callous indifference to the plight of the local population is fuelling growing resentment. |
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The plight of native reserves has long been known in various departments at the federal and provincial levels of government. |
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We sit on pillows in front of them as they respectfully take turns to explain their plight. |
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In response to the plight of the two families, a former parish councillor is asking people to help them out by sending donations. |
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I am fully sympathetic with their plight and the difficult conditions under which they often have to survive. |
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Her plight was exceptionally difficult since she had lost her company commander also. |
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Little was gained legally from this demonstration, but it did succeed in drawing attention to the sheep producers ' plight. |
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I'm sure he would have a grand old time revelling in the glory of those who know his plight. |
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They do this in order to reflect on God and on the plight of the unfortunate who do not have enough food. |
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We respond to Oedipus' plight, which includes his own feelings of repulsion about incest, an evaluation which we may share. |
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Have they inspired and mobilised people who were previously apathetic about the plight of refugees? |
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But as the first help trickled in on Sunday, it was the plight of the living that seemed the most desperate. |
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A lot is made of her intelligence, which has the unfortunate effect of implying that her plight would somehow be less painful if she were stupid. |
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The Monarchy did not at once learn its lesson, and little was done to relieve the plight of the peasantry. |
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The report was they had been dining the night before on loin of veal while chatting about the plight of the common man in America. |
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A fortnight ago, this very newspaper ran the story about Livingston's financial plight. |
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As the people in the area learn of their plight, they offer assistance in various ways. |
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It is the decency of ordinary Americans that has made all the difference to the plight of the unfortunate ones. |
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It drew attention to the plight of one pregnant woman constantly made to work excessive hours. |
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However, it is difficult not to feel some sympathy towards the plight of university principals. |
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Whether DMX is a lycanthropy sufferer or simply identifies with the plight of the four-legged, it remains to be seen. |
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You know a play is in trouble when the plight of a stalked woman elicits neither sympathy nor concern. |
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York City supporters are to target the FA in a double-pronged attack to highlight the plight of the club. |
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His plight is also about entrenched bureaucratic cussedness, bad laws and anti-citizen legal procedures and practices. |
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The Aral Sea and the tragic plight of its people is not a freak isolated event, but a crisis that's just slightly ahead of its time. |
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They don't bother much with the plight of mankind and as such they are simply the enemy. |
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The peasants also refused to pay taxes, tithes and manorial dues to their landlords, whom they held responsible for their economic plight. |
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One cannot blame her for feeling this way at all, given her difficult plight. |
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This is not a movie about U.S. foreign policy, or the plight of those involved. |
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Yet following the seven woes, Jesus weeps over the plight of the people of Jerusalem. |
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We've closed our eyes to the plight of those living in totalitarian or theocratic oppression. |
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Gala's plight has not been helped by a seemingly endless rotation of coaches. |
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They will be judged on their individual plight and circumstances as every refugee is. |
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But the current batting and bowling averages give a clue as to some of the weaknesses which are partly responsible for their sorry plight. |
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After lengthy court battles and broken promises, the residents plight continued to fall on deaf ears. |
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Soon after his mysterious death in 1992, close to 150 corridos about his plight were recorded. |
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Against this glorious setting, the film follows the plight of one Serb soldier and two Bosnian fighters trapped between the lines. |
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In response to growing public concern over the plight of the unemployed graduates, the government has made a few token moves to provide jobs. |
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By now, were all tuned in to the film's peculiar brand of black humour and laugh heartily at the doomed toons plight. |
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Though Jack's behaviour makes him only slightly better than pond scum, his plight is not a wholly ridiculous one. |
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It isn't going to give you a new appreciation for the plight of the Cornish. |
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A compassionate journalist on the train, touched by her plight, covers her fare. |
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My friends and I were deeply touched by Lydia's plight and wanted to do something to help her. |
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The second project, which is about to be published, documents the plight of refugees and migrants. |
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Industry, while prepared to welcome any reduction, however small, in its current plight, was miffed. |
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Many critics have observed that Yamamoto is not unsympathetic to the plight of issei men. |
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This being the situation in the capital, one can well imagine the plight in other parts of the state. |
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Some people seem bewildered by our strong concern for the plight of African lions. |
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Those who are still moved by the plight of the downtrodden and shocked by the presence of injustice in our midst should read the book. |
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In the final analysis, I think that it is the poor and misinformed parents who contribute to this dire plight. |
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While the plight of parasitic lice and mites are unlikely to attract outpourings of public sympathy, more charismatic insects are also at risk. |
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In the depths of winter it should not be hard to understand the plight of homeless teenagers. |
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The international community should make the situation better by responding rapidly to the plight of the victims of the civil war in the Congo. |
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Hoping to reunite the poor moggy with its owners the Croydon Guardian ran a story of his plight in last week's edition. |
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His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides. |
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Instead, because of the financial plight of the club after relegation, Mr Tueart was allowed by the ex-chairman to use an executive box. |
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They were treated as dogs, they were hungry, and the goddess of justice refused to review their plight. |
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They wept over the plight of the unfortunate individual and his difficult life of travail. |
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He said the Church should be considerate of the plight of people in the district who lost their crop because of floods that had struck the area. |
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He instanced the plight of a young lad who got planning permission for a site on his father's land near Rakestreet but could not get water. |
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Refugees need help, and I do pity their plight, however problems should not be exported. |
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Much of the limited aid intended to alleviate their plight has been siphoned off by government bureaucrats and sold on the black market. |
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They invited Amnesty International to consider their plight, claiming their jailed comrades were political prisoners. |
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In late 1960, Benenson heard of the plight of two Portuguese men who had been jailed for seven years for raising a toast to freedom. |
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The park also boasts a chillingly effective World Extinct Wildlife Cemetery to illustrate the plight of endangered species. |
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The plight of one character absorbs the undivided attention of the entire audience. |
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Publicly, the Scotsman absolves the Irishman of any responsibility for his plight. |
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As the dusk fell, heart-wrenching songs on the plight of child workers were sung. |
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I find it hard to muster the sympathy within myself to understand his plight. |
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The men had no radio, lifejackets or lifebelts, and had been unable to abandon ship or attract attention to their plight. |
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As Wimbledon go under, we are immune to their pain, unmoved by their plight. |
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Since making the film, I've narrated a documentary about tigers, which is a way of helping, because it sheds light on the plight of the animals. |
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The plight of greyhounds past their racing days has touched the hearts of staff at a dog stadium. |
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Soon after, the Melbourne Age reported on the lone refugee's plight, and the story was picked up widely. |
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Why does such a rich nation not do more to alleviate the plight of its deprived and needy members? |
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This is the social injustice that has exacerbated the plight of the welfare class with the rise of neoliberalism. |
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The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight. |
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Such has been the plight thus far of Anne Hathaway on the Interstellar promo tour. |
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His 1985 novel Masters of Atlantis concerns the plight of the Gnomons, a group dedicated to sharing the mysteries of Atlantis. |
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In 1996, he produced Hidden in America, a film starring his brother beau, about the plight of the working poor in America. |
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There seems to be a proactive disregard for knowing or caring about their lives and plight. |
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Accounts of the prison have come from women who managed to hide their cellular phones, calling relatives to describe their plight. |
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In the 1970s the plight of the Third World coffee farmer was the first wake-up call that modern agribusiness was transforming subsistence farmers into wage slaves. |
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He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance. |
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The plight of children under 5 years of age was particularly alarming. |
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A kind-hearted couple sold their comfortable home to live in a tiny, broken down caravan after being moved to tears by the plight of Kenyan schoolchildren. |
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He has campaigned on behalf of Darfur and wrote about the plight of newly independent South Sudan for The Daily Beast. |
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Are there any war movies that you feel have done a good job of depicting the plight of the soldier? |
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He was so sure of their gratitude, so compassionate for their plight, that he opened his door to an Arab woman feigning labor pains on the first night of the rampage. |
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Throughout the week, the education workers plan to set up a tent at the Education Ministry and to conduct teach-ins to inform the public about their plight. |
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A great dissatisfaction towards the weak Manchu government was shown in reports published during the time, as well as sympathy for the plight of the locals. |
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He joins a chorus of leading figures and academics from the world of Scots art and culture who are concerned about the plight of Burns' birthplace. |
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The matron of the private home wrote to a local public representative to highlight the old woman's plight after she had accumulated debts of 6000 in overdue payments. |
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Now we have a memorial that is a fitting tribute to the enduring suffering of the Navajo from 1863 to 1868, and to the Mescalero Apache who shared their plight. |
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In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight. |
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Nobody can fail to be touched by the plight of the two murdered girls in Soham and the ordeal of their families, friends and all those touched by this tragedy. |
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He is a man of about 35, in a deplorable plight, bespattered with mud and blood and snow, his belt and the strap of his revolver-case keeping together the torn ruins. |
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Labour's response to the plight of the impoverished tsunami victims in Asia is a mirror image of its attitude towards the New Zealand working class. |
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He champions what looks suspiciously like a lost cause, courts clubs who have no sympathy for his plight and casts about for players who don't exist. |
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The international community should do more to protect the plight of these people. |
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In most cases, no wants to talk about sexual assault, the rape-kit backlog, or the plight of victims and their families. |
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The articles linger on the plight of DSK, stuck in his luxury apartment on the posh Place des Vosges. |
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Although our myths and fairy tales are full of examples of the plight of fatherless children, are unfathered children really at risk today in modern America? |
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Nowhere in his presentation does he forget about the plight of the animals, but fortunately, this does not lead him to formulate unhistorical postulates. |
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Then I thought of the plight of those unreached by the Gospel. |
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And regardless of financial plight, many schools award bursaries or grants to the children of parents employed in the armed forces or clergy, or as teachers. |
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This was the first of several films that Capra would make spotlighting the plight of the common man overcoming the deception and greed of the rich fat cats. |
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The state of the health services and the plight of many of our old people are just two reasons why we cannot afford to squander money on another stadium. |
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While the odds were stacked against them, the trio were able to establish contact with Wellington-based Maritime Radio which relayed their plight to Bay of Plenty Coastguard. |
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse. |
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This symbolises the plight of our people in the old country. |
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Why then does his plight overshadow the tender story of the prince? |
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Western concern at the plight of workers in sweatshops is touching. |
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In the March 2001 issue Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Polar explorer, is Guest Editor and articles include a look at the plight of the albatross and Britain's sea coalers. |
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His manner was cold and indifferent to the plight of the boy before him. |
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They gambled everything to lead independent lives, but yesterday the brave conjoined twins whose plight has gripped the world for months lost everything. |
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Levels of income, forms of democratic constitutionalism, and cultural regard for education are all determinants in the plight of children in the workforce. |
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What he found shocked him but also made him more determined than ever to alert others to the plight of those living without clean water and sanitation. |
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Unfortunately Evan's conclusion distracts us from the plight of refugees. |
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Quite simply, her plight is seen as courageous and worthy of sympathy. |
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The plight of Dr Saleh, an Iraqi Kurd, was first published in the Yorkshire Post more than a year ago, provoking residents in Keighley to write to their MP Ann Cryer. |
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Many urban people have the view that farmers are constantly complaining but they do seem to have a genuine grievance about their plight at present. |
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Another task was to arouse awareness throughout society, especially the well-to-do and the intellectuals, of the direness of the plight of the poor and the destitute. |
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Given this, the plight of the dirt farmers who were forced to evacuate their 40 acres in the Dirt Bowl in Oklahoma of the 1930s was doubly tragic. |
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For about 10 years, she worked as an investigative reporter for various science and environmental magazines, specializing in the plight of endangered species. |
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The plight of the working class in Dublin at this time was disturbing. |
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The plight of these poor folk who were losing their wee holiday homes was no doubt a worthy topic but I was looking for something a touch more epoch-making. |
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She pays particular attention to the plight of downwinders living in close proximity to the test range and the variety of malaises suffered by many. |
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Bullock combines likeability with teary-eyed emotion, so we sympathise with her plight, even if we don't understand it. |
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However, after LDP Business featured his plight, he was contacted by the VOA and offered a rebate. |
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Around 66 BC, a movement to use constitutional, or at least peaceful, means to address the plight of various classes began. |
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There's nothing really funny about the plight of New Zealand's kakapo or owl parrot. |
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His boss explains his land-poor plight in a chapter-long narrative that is illustrative of the dialogue throughout the book. |
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Daniels says, championing the plight of an ethical news producer. |
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But Mr. Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract. |
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Lewis Hine's photographs of child labourers in the 1910s powerfully evoked the plight of working children in the American south. |
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The Enclosure Acts of rural England contributed to the plight of rural farmworkers. |
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He also became concerned about the plight of workers and was more sympathetic to the labor movement. |
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Depositing his passengers and limited supplies, he returned to England with word of the plight of the colonists at Jamestown. |
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I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal. |
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Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network, focused on using ecotourism to highlight the leatherback's plight. |
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Sympathy for the plight of the workers brought repeal of the acts in 1824, although the Combination Act 1825 severely restricted their activity. |
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Herring, cod and plaice fisheries may soon face the same plight as mackerel fishing, which ceased in the 1970s due to overfishing. |
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Is the silence about the plight of the Roma in Europe surprising? |
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One of his men, Wiglaf, however, in great distress at Beowulf's plight, comes to his aid. |
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We want to see more bee-friendly planting and we want the Government to give research into the plight of the honeybee its fair share of money. |
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It might be interesting to pick up where Rogers leaves off to produce a fuller picture of the sad plight of Hispanism after the war. |
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Usually I can't, but I've spent the last week pondering the plight of dwarves ousted from Wolverhampton's Snow White panto in favour of children. |
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Widow Benson's plight is recorded in a document called the Hearth Tax Returns for Warwickshire. |
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The plight of rural slaves was generally worse than their counterparts working in urban aristocratic households. |
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She brought to attention the plight of green turtles which no more count to the Lebanese shores. |
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Will the fact that the teachers specifically included the plight of Europe's gay people in the paper clip project have any effect at all? |
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Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in. |
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Not that I'm unsympathetic to the plight of those who sit behind me. |
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According to an opinion piece in The Hindu, the government seems to be totally indifferent to the pathetic plight of convicts. |
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Whether lobbying Arab TV networks or chivvying politicians, those who loved Ken the most were adamant that his plight should never be forgotten. |
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Faced with that danger, it's no surprise that the Montserratians felt their plight was not appreciated by politicians back in London. |
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But Miss Manners asks you to picture the plight of the diner who has the butter but no butter knife. |
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The impeccably-placed source revealed that outspoken Leonard plans to wear an ORANGE BOILER SUIT in a bid to draw attention to his plight. |
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Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. |
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A few years ago, a lateral-thinking zoologist looked into the plight of a captive male mandrill who was in a deep funk and off his food. |
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Her integrity, bipartisanship and tireless dedication to improving the plight of small business will be sorely missed. |
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However, the author insists on blaming the Federal Government of Nigeria for the horrendous plight of Biafrans that resulted from this impasse. |
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In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians. |
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In 1936, by which time unemployment was lower, 200 unemployed men made a highly publicized march from Jarrow to London in a bid to show the plight of the industrial poor. |
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The purpose of the garden is to highlight the plight of the migrating Wildebeest, who no longer come to the national park due to the construction of the Kitengela township. |
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The Mom and Pop shops are facing the same plight as the Mama stores. |
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Within an hour, a local woman who keeps snakes had recognised her plight and identified the reptile as a corn snake, a nonvenomous species normally kept as a pet. |
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The head of government, Prime Minister Bainimarama is urging certain trade unionists to evaluate their actions ahead of the plight of ordinary Fijians across the country. |
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Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. |
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And that disorder that induces purchasing consumer goods just for the feel-good sensation does vaguely resemble the plight of both rummy and druggy. |
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While half a dozen painted dogs lounged in the sunny enclosure nearby, we sat in a hut to watch a five-minute video which summarised their plight. |
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And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes. |
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You only have to look to the plight of anorexics and bulimics. |
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Bassist Phil Blake is also an admirer of the Firs Park team's ability to bounce back from adversity and insists the song can lift others in a similar plight. |
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Aptekar offers a number of reasons for the public's hostility toward street children, one being that they are treated in the aggregate, impersonalizing their plight. |
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Reports were written detailing some of the abuses, particularly in the coal mines and textile factories, and these helped to popularise the children's plight. |
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Although historical tensions still exist on issues such as the plight of comfort women, much of the animosity inspired by memories of World War II has faded. |
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A teamof 15 artists spent twomonths working on the sculpture to draw attention to the plight of the Arctic mammal and the impact of global warming on the icecaps. |
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Similar prayers were offered in synagogues and churches throughout the UK that day, confirming to the public their suspicion of the desperate plight of the troops. |
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Liz Karter, so preoccupied with the plight of addicts she can't even spell her own surname correctly, believes betting shops can ease problem gambling. |
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I'd never given the plight of the Laysan albatross a moment's thought. |
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Such is the plight of those hunted down by the demon hot flushes. |
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