Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the decisions of other large bodies, including states like Massachusetts and California, to divest, the passage of stringent sanctions by the House of Representatives and serious consideration of similar measures in the Republican-controlled Senate, increasing public concern for the plight of Black South Africans, and the general repudiation of constructive engagement, the time is ripe for divestment. The moral imperative to take such a step remains strong...
...looks like a Dickensian waif and turns out to have the soul of one as well, brave and clever but never self-sentimentalizing. She is discovered as a silent little creature, scuttling through air ducts too small for the aliens to penetrate, living an almost rodent-like existence. Her plight would be enough to touch anyone's heart, but in this context, only Ripley has the time and the wit to appreciate...
...permitted in some states. For the lawyer who decides to part from a client, says Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, "the point of no return is when you are so close to trial that the judge is not going to grant a motion to withdraw." That was Rubin's plight when, on the eve of Sanborn's trial, he learned what he calls a "new version of what happened...
...receiving at least some punishment. Six jurors and two judges ordered less than the maximum sentences for several of the Palestinian terrorists charged in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of U.S. Tourist Leon Klinghoffer out of sympathy for their youth and the plight of the Palestinians. Though the prosecution sought a life sentence for Youssef Majed al Molqi, 23, who was accused of killing the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer, the court sentenced him to 30 years...
...suburbs, remains a cornerstone of South Africa's policy. The government's harsh new controls on the domestic and foreign press, adopted since State President P.W. Botha declared a nationwide state of emergency on June 12, have further impaired the whites' vision and suppressed any struggling sensitivity to the plight of the country's 24 million blacks...