* News story on the plight of Aralsk and the Aral Sea.

Cornelis Tromp, commanding the Dutch rear, had defeated his English counterpart, but was accused by De Ruyter of being responsible for the plight of the main body of the Dutch fleet by chasing the English rear squadron as far as the English coast.

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The program began after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill off the coast of California brought the plight of marine ecosystems to national attention.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

" It was only after the establishment of " the Holocaust industry ", he suggests, that outpourings of anguish over the plight of the Jews in World War II began.

Lewy's conclusion was that " the Pope and his advisers – influenced by the long tradition of moderate anti-Semitism so widely accepted in Vatican circles – did not view the plight of the Jews with a real sense of urgency and moral outrage.

A few years later Cervantes, who later wrote the famous book Don Quixote, was captured by corsairs and enslaved in Algiers, attempted to escape and was eventually ransomed ; he wrote about the plight of Christian slaves in his fiction.

In 1936, by which time unemployment was lower, 200 unemployed men made a highly publicized march from Jarrow to London in a bid to show the plight of the industrial poor.

A distinguishing characteristic in the Grant Presidency was his concern with the plight of African Americans and native Indian tribes, in addition to civil rights for all Americans.

Although North Vietnam blocked the flights, the effort was instrumental in bringing the plight of those POWs to the world's attention and their captors soon began treating them better.

Mr. ( George ) Grossmith was in the same plight ".

In October 1984, television reports around the world carried footage of starving Ethiopians whose plight was centered around a feeding station near the town of Korem.

Whereas German hip hop gained widespread appeal throughout the early 1990s, it wasn't until Advance Chemistry ’ s single “ Fremd im eigenen Land ” (“ Strangers in Our Own Land ”) that plight of the immigrant was addressed.

The plight of the ransom hostages held in England was ignored and the repayment money was diverted into the construction of Linlithgow Palace and other grandiose schemes.

Nehemiah related to him the plight of the Jewish people and that the city of Jerusalem was undefended.

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.

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent was so taken with Jerusalem and its plight that he ordered a magnificent fortress-wall built around the entire city, today's Old City wall.

The Christians of Italy could easily see that Constantine was more sympathetic to their plight than Maxentius.

He is usually portrayed as a sinister character, but the 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac showed him ( in a scene not from Rostand's original verse drama ), as compassionate to Cyrano's financial plight, and playfully having enjoyed the duel at the theatre.

In the film, the teenage Prince ' Georgie ' is portrayed as sensitive, intelligent, artistic and almost uniquely sympathetic to his brother's plight.

In 1797 the British Romantic poet Robert Southey — then a young Jacobin — included a section in his collection, " Poems ," a selection of poems under the heading, " Botany Bay Eclogues ," in which he portrayed the plight and stories of transported convicts in New South Wales.

Also on December 23, 1989 he spoke at the Annual Conference of the Islamic Committee for Palestine on the plight of the Palestinian people.

From Mid-May to September 1989 Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hunger strikers stage protests on Moscow's Arbat to call attention to the plight of their Church.

Further threats to the route from the proposed Birmingham Northern Relief Road led to the formation of the Ogley and Hatherton Restoration Society in 1989, after the Inland Waterways Association held a rally at Pelsall to highlight the plight of the canal.

The 2011 film Nilkantho treats the plight of the Indian hijras with sensitivity.

Meanwhile, in his 1993 BFI book on the film, Richard Dyer notes that owing to the rise of homosexual law reform, gay men also viewed the plight of the characters as comparable to their own social constraint in the formation and maintenance of relationships.

Fassbinder worked within the limits of Hollywood melodrama, though the film is partially based on the plight of his then lover Armin Meier ( to whom the film is dedicated ).

) It has been the setting for several other movies in recent years, most notably the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild which was filmed in Montegut and inspired by the plight of bayou communities such as Isle de Jean Charles.

* Turtle Beach, 1992 Australian film about raising awareness for the plight of the boat people

For example, a documentary film on asylum seekers that aims to provide a sympathetic account of their plight, does not guarantee that audiences will decode it to feel sympathetic towards the asylum seekers.

His more experimental films include Aaravam, more an arthouse than commercial venture, and Nidra, a film about the plight of a girl who is in love with a mentally deranged man.

Grimethorpe is known for its past as a mining village, its brass band, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and its location for the film Brassed Off-a black comedy which tells the plight of the village and the effect on its band.

The staff at Variety also believed the film was derivative, and wrote, " The familiar artifice of placing the scribe in parallel plight, with the newspaperman arrested for two slayings and only clearing himself because of his sweetheart's persistent search for the real slayer, is used ... Boris Ingster's direction is too studied and when original, lacks the flare to hold attention.

Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the character Viktor Navorski, from the 2004 movie The Terminal ; however, neither publicity materials, nor the DVD " special features " nor the film's website mentions Nasseri's plight as an inspiration for the film.

He wrote, " One of the better and more rousing labor strike films that calls attention to class war in America, though it doesn't offer enough analysis or balance on the issues ( it sees the struggle solely through the miners ' eyes )... The film does a good job chronicling the plight of the miners and telling their personal stories in a moving way, and the meaningful catchy coal mining songs add to the emotional impact of the historical event.

" Comparing the movie to the film noir Ace in the Hole, Time Out observed that " the emphasis is as much on the reaction of bystanders as on the plight of the would-be suicide.

In light of public reaction to the film, and following on the heels of a publicity campaign led by Willam Shearman and Ian Macleold highlighting the plight of the homeless, the charity Crisis was formed the following year in 1967.

Although marketed as an action film, the story focuses on the plight of Native Americans during the civil rights movement.

The viewer follows his plight through both his video diary ( in which he addresses the viewer ) and through traditional film cameras.

The film features many of the town's colourful characters, highlighting their daily plight of a nuclear plant of empty promises and a year round mosquito epidemic.

Their plight gained national attention through the 1939 novel and film The Grapes of Wrath.

Some critics joined the Sonagachi prostitute-advocacy groups in condemning the film for exploitation of the plight of the prostitutes for profit.

The film, like the book, also suggests a comparison between the contemporary moment of the Civil Rights Movement and the plight of African Americans at various points in history.

The film had a profound impact in China in bringing attention the region and the plight of its inhabitants and endangered species.

The film tells the story of Bertha Thompson ( played by Barbara Hershey ) and " Big " Bill Shelly ( played by David Carradine ), two train robbers and lovers who are caught up in the plight of railroad workers in the American South.

McKenna and Travers had been greatly affected by the plight of wild animals after starring together in the 1966 film Born Free which told the story of George and Joy Adamson as they returned Elsa the Lioness to the wilds of Africa.