Such cartoons had a sort of family connection with the earliest caricatures, but they were not merely antiportraits of types, they were portraits with accessories that created the predicament.
Evidently, the Chancellor has decided that his best bet is to ramp up the real-estate market — never mind that a big property bubble helped create the current predicament.
Doug Johnson would start in place of Vick, and although Giants Coach Jim Fassel spoke warily of the Atlanta offense, with or without Vick, Johnson would not create the same predicaments as Vick.
"Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament, but she alone does not get to determine its outcome".
If Super Bowl rings are designed to reflect a team's unique personality, that would seem to create a predicament for the Steelers.
The situation is in many ways a continuation of the cat-and-mouse game Apple is constantly engaged in with hackers, but the unusually prominent nature of this hacking — and the fact that the hacker was the United States government — creates a predicament for the company.
A decision to abandon the Justice Department's case could create a predicament for Mr. Moussaoui's court-appointed civilian lawyers, who would have to decide whether they had any standing to continue to represent him and whether they wanted to try to keep him from being transferred to military custody.
But there also is clearly a political component at play here, as the White House seeks, while managing its own problems, to create a predicament for Mr. Bush's Democratic opponent.
In an 1869 parody of the Russian predicament, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin created the fictional Glupov ("Stupidtown"), where citizens simply accepted their fate, got drunk and killed one another.
Yes, the ruling military is a crucial regional security partner, and this creates a predicament for the Obama administration, the main financial supporter of the military.
