She used the opportunity to discuss the plight of women in Afghanistan during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan, saying, " The brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists.

Contingents that were led by conductors from the U. S. Army included those led by Edward Deas, who was claimed to be a sympathizer for the Cherokee plight.

23 " ( from his album Hillbilly Deluxe ), a song about the yearning of local coal miners to escape their plight by traveling up U. S. Route 23 to find employment in the factories in the North, not knowing that they were only trading one miserable life for another.

In response to the French invasion and the elevation of Maximilian, Juárez sent General Plácido Vega y Daza to the U. S. state of California to gather Mexican American sympathy for Mexico's plight.

* The IRC issued a report in 2008 detailing the plight of Iraqi refugees on the five-year anniversary of the U. S .- led occupation of Iraq.

Vance's lyrics touched upon vaguely, among other issues, the plight of indigenous peoples of the Americas, and opposed the U. S. government's involvement in Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Although Benet's poem is not about the plight of native Americans, Wounded Knee, ( a village on a reservation in South Dakota ) was the location of last major confrontation between the U. S. Army and American Indians.

" In contrast, " Still in Saigon " ( written by Dan Daley ) was an effective portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam veteran ten years after the war ; it was part of an early 1980s wave of attention to the subject, presaging treatments such as Bruce Springsteen's " Born in the U. S. A ." and " Shut Out the Light ", Billy Joel's " Goodnight Saigon ", Huey Lewis and the News ' " Walking on a Thin Line ", Paul Hardcastle's " 19 " and somewhat later Steve Earle's " Copperhead Road ".

Although Benet's poem is not about the plight of native Americans, Wounded Knee, ( a village on a reservation in South Dakota ) was the location of the last major confrontation between the U. S. Army and American Indians.

Wek is a member of the U. S. Committee for Refugees ' Advisory Council and is helping to raise awareness about the situation in Sudan, as well as the plight of refugees worldwide.

Known as RAFI ( Rural Advancement Foundation International ) until 1 September 2001, the ETC Group traces its history back to the National Sharecroppers Fund that was established in the 1930s by Eleanor Roosevelt ( amongst others ) to alleviate the plight of poor, mostly black tenant farmers in the U. S. In the early 1970s, Pat Mooney, Hope Shand, and Cary Fowler began working on the Seeds Issue through the Rural Advancement Foundation — and, in time, set up an international arm concerned with the rights of farmers in the global south.

Although its government was sympathetic to Britain's plight, American public opinion at the time overwhelmingly supported isolationism to avoid U. S. involvement in " another European war ".

This initiative drew international publicity to the plight of the Haitian boat-people and U. S. discrimination against them.

Taking advantage of the Confederacy's plight, the U. S. First Army marches into western Tennessee after slogging through western Kentucky, while the C. S.

Without explicitly describing Mr. Kuwabara as a victim of federal anti-Japanese racism, Judge Goodman viewed the plight of Mr. Kuwabara in this light, and ruled against the United States, which incarcerated the defendant in a U. S. concentration camp ; categorized him as a Class 4-C Enemy Alien ; and then drafted him into military service.

U. S. forces were tipped off as to Lynch's whereabouts by an Iraqi, sympathetic to her plight, who told them she had been tortured and injured but was still alive.

Grand Marais attained 1, 281, 724 " cheers " and won the top municipal first prize of $ 40, 000 in the contest, as well as notoriety for its plight in a Reader's Digest article. Grand Marais, Mich. is No. 1 Town in the Reader's Digest ' We Hear You America ' Contest Offering Promotional and Economic Stimulus to Towns Across the U. S.

In 1975 Ray was alarmed by the plight of thousands of refugees from the Vietnam War, many of whom were allies of the U. S., who had been expelled or were fleeing from Vietnam and living in temporary refugee camps.

In 1975, David Ottaway of the Washington Post wrote and published an article titled " Islanders Were Evicted for U. S. Base " which related the plight of the Chagossians in detail.

" She opposed the repression of the Mormons of Utah, for example, and she vainly tries to draw the attention of U. S. public opinion to the plight of Blacks in the Confederacy, even before the rise of Jake Featherston.

* Steel Town ( 1984 ) characterized the plight of steel workers and the decline of steel manufacture in the U. S. For this production, the troupe toured the Midwest, primarily in factory cities.

The international media coverage of the plight of the refugees eventually led U. S. President Bill Clinton to call it the " world ’ s worst humanitarian crisis in a generation " and large amounts of relief was mobilized.

This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

The almost six million persons without jobs and the two million working part-time do not consider themselves and their plight as statistical.

It is a matter of some disappointment to me that still many of my own countrymen are too shortsighted to ascribe any symbolic significance to the plight of a minority, such as artists, in any social order.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

The plight of a small community library is proportionately worse.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

The plight of displaced Angolans.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

These contacts and the common plight subsequently led to a rapprochement between the Western supporters of the Nicene creed and the homoousios and the Eastern semi-Arians.

Then, in probably the most interesting part of the hymn, Enheduanna herself steps forward in the first person to recite her own past glories, establishing her credibility, and explaining her present plight.

" The plight of Israel has become hopeless.

Therefore, it is argued, people really concerned about the plight of the third world should actually be encouraging free trade, rather than attempting to fight it.

At the time, Abd al-Rahman and Bedr were keeping a low profile, staying in Kabylia, at the camp of a Nafza Berber chieftain friendly to their plight.

Sympathizing with the plight of the Uyghurs, whose lands were conquered by the Qing dynasty, Ahmad Shah attempted to rally neighboring Muslim nations to check Qing expansion.

One of his men, however, Wiglaf, who finds great distress in seeing Beowulf's plight, comes to Beowulf's aid.

The vision then embraces the fall of Jerusalem to the hands of foreign invaders and God ’ s anger against Edom for taking advantage of the Jews of Judah during their plight, thus sealing their doom.

The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

Then Ruhi Effendi referred to Ahmad as being in the same plight as himself, but reacting differently.

Breeskin owned the rights to the song and was aware of Murchison ’ s plight to get an NFL franchise.

Hutchins's book The Higher Learning in America deplored the " plight of higher learning " that had turned away from cultivation of the intellect and toward anti-intellectual practicality due in part, to a lust for money.

He spent several days touring the city to draw attention to the plight of citizens stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and other places.