So for them, the disappearance of the well-known adventurer Steve Fossett has created an unusual predicament: when a person vanishes without a trace, when, if ever, should a news organization publish an obituary?
The Lannisters are dysfunctional The prime movers of Westeros were left in a scandalous predicament when youngest son Tyrion murdered his father Tywin with a crossbow.
His partner, Jean-Franois Canton, was in a similar predicament when responsible for Banque Indosuez's Asian portfolio in the mid-1980s.
Former acting chairman Stephen Coulby revealed the club was in a worse predicament when he came in in the middle of May than had been thought and this has put potential investors off.
Of course, no one foresaw such a predicament four years ago, when California, the world's seventh-largest economy, decided to deregulate its electric industry.
One of the most common problems that arise at startups is the development of what I call technical debt — a predicament created when second-rate code or software is deployed in the short run to speed up the product development process.
In an example of the country's economic predicament, when the Belarussian government last spring resorted to subsidizing staples like cheese and butter, residents took to smuggling them abroad for resale.
She had to scramble to keep up, an experience she likens to her character's predicament: "When Claire gets thrown back, she's completely clueless and it's all brand new for her, so luckily I was just able to discover things as I went along".
Dr. Dean only compounded his predicament when, asked about the quotations at a candidates' forum, he lashed out at his questioner, looking unrepentant.
