During the league's relatively brief history, clubs have confronted a difficult choice when hiring coaches: select an experienced foreigner from Europe or Latin America, or someone who is perhaps better able to relate to American players.
In the midst of their grief, the family found itself confronted by a difficult choice: pay the mortgage, or pay for their slain matriarch's funeral.
A policy maker is then confronted with a difficult choice: Do you build one affordable housing unit in that wealthy neighborhood, or do you build, say, five in the South Bronx or Queens?
If the owners win and the lockout continues, as seems likely given preliminary indications from the three-judge panel, players will be confronted with a difficult choice with the calendar working against them.
If the Texas military court sentences Major Hasan to death, and if the mandatory appeals process exhausts itself without undue delay (Hasan, unlike Sergeant Akbar, probably won't put up much of a legal struggle), President Obama will be confronted with a difficult choice.
Democrats say they are being confronted with a difficult choice: Go against the wishes of a president who is popular and well respected in their caucus, or defy voters back home who are overwhelmingly opposed to another United States military intervention overseas.
Were Mr. Schmidt-Holtz to depart, Mr. Stringer might be confronted with a difficult choice among potential successors, with candidates including his own brother, Rob Stringer, who heads Sony Music's Columbia/Epic division, as well as Barry Weiss, who heads the company's other main label group, RCA.
Yet many GOP senators weighing a vote on nullifying Trump's national emergency are being confronted with a difficult choice: Buck their president and potentially draw the wrath of core Republican voters, or support Trump's controversial declaration for a wall that remains unpopular with the broader public.
