Sentence examples for As a predicament from inspiring English sources

Think of the predicate as a predicament — the situation the subject is in.

And unlike dating sites that treat being single as a predicament, this one celebrates flying solo, and offers shopping, financial and other advice to help them do so with pride.

That Mr. Ferrer is in this position -- Mr. Green's advisers described it as a predicament, while Mr. Ferrer's supporters argued that he was now primed to sweep Mr. Green out of public life -- is a reflection of how strikingly the political dynamics of New York have changed.

One could, as many feminists do, understand one's gender identity as a predicament shared by all with the same ascribed identity, and thus as a basis for collective action to change the very basis of one's gender identity.

von Wright 1968 refers to a conflict of obligations as a "predicament" and illustrates with the much-cited example of Jephthah (from the Book of Judges), who promises God to sacrifice the first living being he meets upon returning home from war, if God gives him victory, which wish is granted, but his daughter is the first living being he meets upon his return.

And as "weird" as a predicament as she sometimes feels she is in, she has reconciled it.

The shabab still hurl rocks and other projectiles at the soldiers, the protestors still chant defiantly in the name of freedom, their flags still wave proudly in the stiff winter breeze – but, when the march is over for another week, their village is in as dire a predicament as ever.

The actions that the government has taken and plans to take bespeak fear that without radical measures of the kind that were or perhaps should have been taken during the Great Depression, we could find ourselves in almost as dire a predicament.

As a result, California, a much larger economy than Greece, is in at least as serious a predicament.

The inexplicable nature of romantic longing, the insuperable divide between thought and feeling, is a predicament as old as the hills, and one that, I'd guess, women are more disturbed by than men -- especially the sort of women who have "grasped certain fundamental notions first advanced by Plato" and still find themselves doubled over with "the agony of sexual reasoning".

Nutter and Kripke found themselves in a predicament, as they felt both actors were great as Sam.