Word: plights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors of the Nazi inferno in barbed-wired detention camps, world opinion grew more and more sympathetic to the Zionist prescription for the plight of the Jews. This strategy helped bring about the favorable atmosphere that led to the 1947 U.N. resolution, partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state...
...pity us, are still in the dark ages of fashion law: wear something as innocuous as a nice print skirt, and you're liable to be castigated by your school, your friends, even your family. Reading about the plight of poor Bryan Giles and his friends, my memory started drifting back to my senior year of high school, when I last wore women's clothing to school...
...moved by the nuns...I had to express my solidarity with these people in their plight," Robinson said later...
...soon discovered that liberalism is selective. While Harvard students do rightly welcome diversity of color, talent, sex, religion and countless other characteristics, international students are left out in the cold. Harvard students properly turn out in droves to hear panelists discuss, for example, the plight of farm workers in the United States, but few can take time out of their busy schedules to hear, for example, the president of Finland talk about changes in the European Union and their effect on the global economy, or to hear vice president of the European Commission Sir Leon Brittain discuss its work...
...seen, [Jones] clearly doesn't have pervasiveness--it was just one incident--so she has to prove severity," says Deborah Epstein, who teaches law at Georgetown University. "And there are lots of things worse than this incident that the courts have said are not severe enough." Epstein cites the plight of Kimberly Weinsheimer. In the mid-'80s Weinsheimer was a Rockwell International Corp. employee who inspected parts used to build spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. In her suit, Weinsheimer said that over an eight-month period, a co-worker frequently asked that she "suck him," grabbed her crotch...