Synonym: complication, difficulty, dilemma, muddle, pinch, predicament. Similar words: highlight, light, slight, flight, light up, delight, lightly, slightly. Meaning: [plaɪt] n. 1. a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one 2. a solemn pledge of fidelity. v. 1. give to in marriage 2. promise solemnly and formally.
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151. Belarus's Alyaksandr Lukashenka , naturally sympathetic to the plight of a fellow post - Soviet strongman, offered him sanctuary.
152. I think that she is in sympathy with their plight.
153. Previously he had been inclined to detach himself from the plight of victims of tragedy, not out of callousness but a sort of incuriosity.
154. In order to overcome the plight of rationalism, the Western philosophy of the development of many new path, one of which China is taking a similar path intuitionism philosophy.
155. The experiment researched on the control effect and physiological base of two kinds of defending fungus preparation against pimiento plight. The result was listed bellow:1.
156. But he might be taken aback by the popular sympathy for his plight.
157. Apiarist courses in many places are over-subscribed and membership of beekeeping associations has shot up with the increased awareness of the plight of the productive pollinator.
158. Not even the devout deny the plight of the Ganges now.
159. Huang Boyuan has been a spinocerebellar atrophy patient for over 9 years. The illness has damaged his balance and slurred his speech. Yet he faces his plight with optimism and courage.
160. This change suits for the particular plight and demanding of scholar-bureaucrat of different periods.
161. Phan now works at the Burma Campaign UK, raising awareness of the plight of the country's ethnic minorities.
162. The figures in John Cheever's novels embody the awkward existence conditions and reflect cheever's ponderation on the plight and outlet of the presaent people.
163. He had no solution of his own to the plight of the Third Army.
164. Many of the world's rivers, including the Colorado in America, China's Yellow river and the Tagus, which flows through Spain and Portugal, are suffering a similar plight.
165. He would concern himself solely with the plight of the hostages.
166. Wild tigress Sita, cub gently in mouth, gets her close-up when National Geographic addresses the plight of her species' vanishing habitat and vulnerability to poachers.
167. Politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed.
168. More than 400 exiles were on a dawn-to-dusk hunger strike to dramatize their plight.
169. These three strategies reflect the plight of woman homosexuality in modern China.
170. He looked first mollified and then relieved as it occurred to him his plight could be worse.
171. Last year Collins wrote a moving ballad which highlighted the plight of the homeless.
172. But he might be taken aback by the popular sympathy for his plight. So might the authorities: the case has become an embarrassment.
173. Silk stockings giddy,(sentencedict.com) be in a sorry plight smiling expression of pretty girl stage still!
174. Last September , about 40 families traveled to capital call attention to the plight of abducted children.
175. The fire had come only five years after Upton Sinclair published his book The Jungle, which detailed the plight of the workers at a meat packer's plant.
176. Benedict recalled the plight of "street children who do not have the blessing of a family home."
177. Other works by Watts (1817-1904) on display at the Guildhall reflect a painter concerned with the plight of the poor and the suffering, with works such as "Found Drowned" and "The Irish Famine."
178. The cruelty of the situation moved the foreign charities,[www.Sentencedict.com] and celebrities such as Luciano Pavarotti to become involved in highlighting the plight of strays.
179. It is a measure of their plight that few of them have anywhere to go to.
180. By John Steinbeck. A monumental classic by a master, explores the plight of the poor who are exploited by modern corporations in an epic tale of struggling sharecroppers.