(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(3) A prominent gay rights activist, Nikolai Alexeev, said although Fry's letter "won't change anything" at the Olympics, it would help raise awareness of the plight of LGBT Russians.
(4) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(5) Persistent media highlighting of the plight of patients suffering from severe fatigue of unknown cause (postviral fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis) has at last been matched by professional attention.
(6) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
(7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) Victims of the Great Depression were there in plain sight, the unemployed queuing up in breadlines, their plight unambiguous.
(10) Qatar had vowed to reform the industry after the Guardian exposed the desperate plight of many of its migrant workers last year.
(11) I keep going and going and going.” 17) Being ahead of the curve July 2008: Two years before the Qatar vote, addresses the plight of exploited workers denied liveable pay and conditions.
(12) The legitimate focus on the plight of refugees on Nauru has overshadowed the impact of Australian policies on that island nation, a closely integrated society of just 10,000 people.
(13) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
(14) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(15) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
(16) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
(17) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
(18) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
(19) As for Aloisi's plight, Popovic declined to offer advice.
(20) Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.
Quandary
Definition:
(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
(2) On occasions, they result in some diagnostic and therapeutic quandaries.
(3) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
(4) This, if anything, demonstrates the quandary and complexity of financial regulation.
(5) These two distinct paradigms lead to divergent treatment goals, which leaves the clinician in a quandary about how best to treat an individual who experiences a drinking problem.
(6) The quandary is a familiar one to every football fan who has watched his or her team score a goal while surrounded by rival supporters.
(7) "Egypt is in a quandary – it doesn't want to punish Gaza by closing the tunnels, but it needs to secure Sinai," said one western diplomat.
(8) The quandary of how to determine the value of human life and health is an essential problem but is certainly not straight forward.
(9) Some of the theoretical quandaries associated with the concept are briefly reviewed.
(10) Specific quandaries arise with involuntary hospitalization and treatment, and with evaluating patients for the courts.
(11) Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary.
(12) This leaves Scotland's policymakers in something of a quandary: how can you tackle a problem when you don't know what is causing it?
(13) Practical solutions to the quandaries posed by the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy are explicated, with supporting methodological examples for nursing research studies.
(14) Such thirtysomething quandaries, of course, are found in greater-than-average concentration in Hollywood, where a good deal of the writers, directors and executives fall into this group; this is one reason why so many of these films have been produced.
(15) "The whole of the radio industry is in a bit of a quandary.
(16) This fixture has, in the Wenger era, been all about Arsenal's possession of the perfect answer to every quandary.
(17) One of the biggest quandaries among those who study radicalisation is identifying the point at which individuals move from "extremism" to "violent extremism".
(18) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(19) And therein lies a quandary: how can a casual who must only say yes ever enter into a real and honest dialogue with the permanent staff who employ them?
(20) Underlying it all, there's not only rightful compassion for victims, but also perhaps relief that we don't have to face such quandaries.