Sentence examples for a common predicament from inspiring English sources

Some insurance policies cover storm damage, but not flooding, a common predicament after hurricanes.

Indian market regulators are facing what is becoming a common predicament in emerging markets: too much money.

While their sectors may be at varying stages of development, they are facing a common predicament: a shortage of professionals skilled in Islamic finance.

A COMMON predicament for women is what shoes to wear in the irksome fashion season that falls between winter boots and summer sandals.

Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.

A growing part of the precariat perceives a common predicament, realising that this is a collective experience due to structural features of the economic and political system.

Chugging through the Gulf of Aden this past September, the crew of a Ukrainian freighter fell victim to an increasingly common predicament: a pirate attack.

Buddhism is mostly about exploring and accepting the human condition, and my teaching usually came with a few jokes about our common predicament.

It's about a common human predicament: Alby can't escape the angry absurdity of his own character.

This atmosphere of politics as usual is not the only predictable aspect of the new democracy: theater here seems to be floundering for subjects and causes, a common enough predicament among nations with former totalitarian regimes.

That same year food shortages a common predicament for Cabo Verde worsened considerably, and the government relied heavily on foreign aid and food imports to feed the country.