New Orleans, in fact, has been in "a little bit of an awkward predicament," he said.
Quite; but in the interim, his party may find itself in the awkward predicament of criticising a Labour government's tax reductions.
He handled questions about the awkward predicament with Sanchez as deftly as he dealt with the attention he received for being an outspoken Christian.
"We were in a very awkward predicament, no engine and no sail," Amundsen wrote, but the crew raised the trysail, and the Gjöa continued on.
But seldom before has the American Congress or, more correctly, a bipartisan committee of wise men and women reporting to Congress put a wartime president in such an awkward predicament.
If Clinton wins, she would face the awkward predicament of working on anti-terrorism and other vital efforts with an FBI director still pursuing a Republican-encouraged investigation of her emails.
Yet this week an obscure paragraph in the German penal code has landed the chancellor in such an awkward predicament that some think it may lead to her eventual downfall.
Etiquette being what it is, of course, several of the 27 gift-givers in line for a Clinton check would not talk to a reporter yesterday about their socially awkward predicament.
She refrains from posing, preferring to keep to her natural slangy speech in her journey through the story from a tent to a penthouse.She admits that she has thrown discretion to the winds and she sometimes finds herself in an awkward predicament, but through a wily lawyer she succeeds in proving that she is guiltless.
But high debt and low savings means many Americans are just one emergency away from this awkward predicament.
GOP leaders have put themselves in an awkward predicament over the court seat, which has been empty since February.
