Sentences with phrase «stories about the plight»

Artist Statement «I often listened to NPR during working and driving, and one time there was a story about the plight of migrant farm workers: The really hard work they have...

Another ABC story about the plight of the Stepnell family, and their contribution to the Senate Enquiry into Wind Farms, is available here.

Not exact matches

Each one says something empirical about the plight of a small business, but also tells a story about where the biggest pitfalls and challenges are, and how to avoid them.

Chris — He is only talking about the ones who laughed hysterically when the story was told or who react happily to what most people would consider sad / depressing news (about the plight of people who need help)... or cheer when something crazy is said.

A story from Sam Riviera about when he first became aware of the desperate plight of homeless people and what he could do to help.

These success stories also show that many victims themselves don't really embrace this view; instead of agitating for — or despairing over — political deliverance from their plight, they set about changing it through individual, nonpolitical striving.

But perhaps the most chilling story the Bacons have to tell is about the plight of albino children.

On Tuesday evening, the campaign unveiled four television ads, each 30 - second spot telling a story about a specific working woman's economic plight (Clinton does not appear in the ads at all).

Yet as the story unfolds, Egoyan gives us plenty to think about, from the plight of a homosexual German to the various motivations and justifications of the guards, without preaching, showing gruesome flashbacks, or making his points too obvious.

It's a credit to the film's sober, down - to - earth tone that Lars And The Real Girl isn't as insufferably precious as it sounds; everyone onscreen cares enough about Gosling's plight to keep the story's basic ridiculousness from seeming too cartoonish.

I think I expected more about the RR and not a story of one woman as she attempts many escapes and the people she loves & has contact with during her plight.

Ultimately, Matthew Goodman pulls together a riveting story that has the bones of a true and fascinating history and the heart of a great adventure: The reader not only learns about Nellie Bly and her attempt to exceed the travel time of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days, but also has the pleasure of visiting the world of the 1890s, meeting Joseph Pulitzer, understanding the plight of Chinese workers in America, traveling in luxury trains and boats, seeing beautiful places before industrial pollution took place, and so much more.

Ellie is such an appealing and unusual video game character — an Ellen Page look - alike voiced expertly by the 29 - year - old Ashley Johnson — that at one point I found myself rooting for Joel to die so that The Last of Us would become her game, a story about a lost young girl instead of another look inside the plight of her brooding, monosyllabic father figure.

The story is a typical character - based tale within a massive war, attempting to make you care about the guys around you as well as the world's overall plight.

If how we make visible the plight of others and keep their stories debated and alive is one strand of the exhibition, tied up with this are ideas about how we defend and celebrate the freedoms we possess.

and in this issue, [I never really noticed it back in 2001 when I bought the magazine at a bookstore here in Taiwan when I was coming down with a bad winter cold, but NOW] I see that one story in the issue is titled «IN THE HEAT OF THE PLIGHT DEPT.» and it begins like this (yes, it's about global warming, way back then, 2001):

Increasingly, this process — once an activity of concerned citizens giving up their spare time — has become professionalised, and now consists of teams of people employed to accost shoppers with direct - debit forms, and stories and pictures about the plight of animals and African babies.

A special project aims to shed light on not only the plight of this species, but the amazing story about how it has made a recovery thanks to the hope - beyond - hope efforts of a handful of people.

20 % of Nile, Mekong Deltas Submerged, Imperiling Current Food Supplies We've recently seen stories about what this will mean in the Nile Delta and Mekong Delta (not to mention the oft - publicized and very genuine plight of Bangladesh):

As we have regularly been blogging about, the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities in Ontario has been in the news since the story of Adam Capay's plight at the Thunder Bay District Jail came to the public's attention earlier this year.

Chief Judge Pascoe was deeply affected when speaking with a local Wiradjuri woman about her plight and the story she related about her inability to access justice.

Frustrated by the lack of response from the government, a series of stories went out in the media this week about her plight.