In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

In 1969, Pollution Probe held a much celebrated “ Funeral for the Don ” to highlight the plight of the river.

Looking for salvation from a yet unknown plight, he gets a knock at his door, figuratively speaking, and Ed Finnerty, an old friend whom Paul has always held in high regard, informs him he has quit his important engineer job in Washington D. C. Paul and Finnerty visit a bar in the " Homestead " section of town, where workers who have been displaced by machines live out their meaningless lives in mass-produced houses.

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.

His plight became public, and soon bone marrow drives were held all over the Detroit area where thousands of people took tests in hope that their bone marrow would help McCarthy recover.

* The Bermuda Conference was an international conference between the United Kingdom and the United States held on April 19, 1943 at Hamilton, Bermuda, concerned with the plight of European Jews.

Depositing his passengers and limited supplies, he had returned to England with word of the plight of the colonists at Jamestown.

In March 1673, Shaftesbury supported a bill for easing the plight of the Protestant dissenters in England, but nothing came of this bill.

Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare and is said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein ( or " bearing rein ", a strap used to keep horses ' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck ).

Back in England, she continued to be involved with the Basque children, visiting them and highlighting their plight.

After their plight was featured in the international media, the Shockers, with the support of teams like New England Revolution and individuals such as former Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez, pledged to help raise $ 1, 000, 000 to the redevelopment of City Park.

AEF ( Africa Evangelical Fellowship ) began in 1879, when a wealthy South African-born widow living in England read of the plight of soldiers in military camps in her home country, and went to Cape Town to open a Soldiers ’ Home there.

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.

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.

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

The plight of the Aral coast was portrayed in the 1989 film Psy (" Dogs ") by Soviet director Dmitry Svetozarov.

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.

In 2002, the Seattle Times reported that the company initially ignored the plight of a Quiznos employee who took over operations of one Quiznos store after the true owner abandoned it.

The plight of the freedmen during Reconstruction was largely ignored by conservative historians who followed the Dunning School.

The stated aim of the tour was to highlight the plight of the impoverished population of the United States prior to the 2012 Presidential Election, whose candidates Smiley and West stated had ignored the plight of the poor.

In contrast to her image as a materialistic queen who ignored the plight of the poor, Marie Antoinette attempted to teach her daughter about the sufferings of others.

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.

Sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by the Neutrality Acts, which forbade arms sales on credit or the loaning of money to belligerent nations, Roosevelt eventually came up with the idea of " Lend-Lease.

Geldof was so moved by the plight of starving children that he decided to try to raise money using his contacts in pop music.

When Tulasi comes to know of Sastri's plight she tries to help him monetarily but gives the money through someone else.

Word of their plight reached a Miss Catherine Cave-Browne in London who sent money for a Protestant Mission to be built.

The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund was initiated on Children's Day ( October 1 ) in the year 1993 by The Straits Times, to heighten public awareness of the plight of children from low-income families who were attending school without proper breakfast, or pocket money to sustain their day in school.

Members of the public responded to Somersett's plight by sending money to pay for his lawyers ( who in the event all gave their services pro bono publico ), while Stuart's costs were met by the West Indian planters and merchants.

In 1944, a famous article was published about his plight and money was donated by fans to help Langford.

She and her husband, Aristotle Onassis, donated money to improve the plight of her relatives.

Although it was the first benefit concert of its type, it was vastly successful in raising money, aid, and awareness for the region's plight.

Upon hearing about the plight of the victim's family, the public donated money to the widow which amounted to more than S $ 500, 000 by the fourth day of the wake.

# Pasadena 911-In this two-hour special episode, Mike Holmes, after appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, learns of the plight of two homeowners whose " dream house " renovation had gone horribly wrong ( having spent 90 % of their money but only having 30 % of the work done before the original contractor had apparently abandoned the job ) and travels to Pasadena, California to make it right.

Picking up from Francesa's opening monologue, Russo criticized Imus for failing to submit a public apology within forty-eight hours of making the offending comments, and found fault with his strategy on both Al Sharpton's radio show and The Today Show of citing his personal accomplishments in raising money for charitable causes like sickle-cell anemia, children's cancer and the plight of wounded veterans of the Iraq War.