Word: plights
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...sources. Quoting a statement depicting the miserable fate of Jews in mid-19th century Jerusalem, Peters cites a British consular letter from “Wm. T. Young to Viscount Canning.” Dershowitz cites the same statement as Peters, reporting that Young “attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem” to pervasive anti-Semitism. Turning to the original, however, we find that the relevant statement did not come from Young but, as is unmistakably clear to anyone who actually consulted the original, from an enclosed memorandum written...
...stage for about half the play, and yet they have nothing to do with the it; their only function is comic relief. At best, they are superfluous and occasionally annoying, but when the action becomes serious, their incessant gaiety distracts from the relationship of the lovers, making the plight seem trivial and irrelevant...
...extent that Harvard’s gay men and women have experienced discrimination, hostility or, at a minimum, indifference to their plight, their involvement in the school’s future—and in our society—will hopefully make both safer, warmer better places...
...total debt was owed to the IMF, it was hardly enthusiastic about what debt forgiveness would do to its balance sheet. Given all this, it was not too surprising that only three countries - Uganda, Bolivia and Guyana - met the hurdles and received debt relief. Those concerned with the plight of the poor in developing countries were frustrated by the slow pace of debt forgiveness. In 2000, the Jubilee movement mobilized sufficient public opinion to the point where debt forgiveness was greatly extended and the hurdles adjusted to a more reasonable level. So it now appears that many more countries will...
...events didn't turn out quite that way; Abbas's departure underscores Arafat's continued centrality to the political process in the Palestinian Authority. If anything, the failure of the roadmap process to significantly alter the desperate plight of Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza actually restored and strengthened Arafat's standing among his own people...