The boat was close at hand now, and in desperate plight.

This desperate plight is repeated from country to country across the region.

Or the desperate plight of a little girl who had been in an orphanage since she was a month old.

It could do worse than to look at the ways it resolved its desperate plight of the mid-1970's.

"Is our plight so desperate that a saint might intervene?"

Many whites had thought that the Indians' desperate plight would make them more pliable.

Some there are, no doubt, who would question the ability of a single warrior to redeem such a desperate plight.

Not that they were probably aware of Skid's increasingly desperate plight.

It's a desperate plight these people have and they need help.

Kane realized that he was in a desperate plight indeed.