Sentence examples for could not extricate from inspiring English sources

He found that he could not extricate himself from this dilemma by reducing his demands, as he eventually did, to the absolute minimum required for his security.

Afraid to refuse overtime work lest their job prospects be damaged, yet increasingly upset over neglect of family responsibilities, they found themselves in a conflict from which they could not extricate themselves.

He was busy freeing a Hyundai imprisoned by a wall of snow when he was summoned by a well-dressed man who could not extricate his truck — despite its four-wheel drive — from the icy grip of a curbside snowdrift.

Speaking to the court, Bo attempted to lay the reason for his downfall at the feet of his estranged wife and his former right hand man: "[Wang] was secretly in love with Gu Kailai, his emotions were tangled and he could not extricate himself".

Many writers before Keynes raised the question of whether a capitalist economic system, relying as it did on the profit incentive to keep production going and maintain employment, was not in danger of running into depressed states from which the automatic workings of the price mechanism could not extricate it.

The prosecutors added, "The defendant then abandoned the helpless and severely injured Perez in this remote area knowing that he could not extricate himself from his predicament nor protect himself from the elements or other potential dangers or avail himself of any assistance".

I couldn't extricate myself from my hidden relationship.

I was so deep in the crowd, I couldn't extricate myself.

Oscar liked to kid himself that it was only cold, anthropological interest that kept him around to see how it would all end, but the truth was he couldn't extricate himself.

The big reason, says Currier, is he couldn't extricate himself from the companies they were forming, despite their original plans to hand the startups off to outside CEOs.

"This is the first time I have been out here," Scott Schreck told NBC6, explaining that he "took a wrong turn" and couldn't extricate the boat.