Sentence examples for desperate predicament from inspiring English sources

But denialists are people in a desperate predicament.

So concerned were the West Ham board at the club's desperate predicament at the foot of the Premier League that they were apparently prepared to offer O'Neill a £3m bonus payable if he kept the club in the top flight.

But what leads to this desperate predicament?

Even with momentary graphic sex and some violence, the film's dramatic tension derives wholly from Swinton's character, and our appreciation of one mother's lonely, desperate predicament.

Floating up from the orchestra shell are the strains of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, brooding over a desperate man's predicament.

They offered us a flat in the Quarry Hill complex but, desperate though our predicament was, my mother rejected its lowly ceilings as too dark and claustrophobic.

His works with writer, naturalist and visual artist Zachary Webber tell darkly comic stories of animals in desperate or violent predicaments.

Prior to January 2010 the Palestinian predicament seemed desperate.

There was polite applause for Ramos from the travelling fans who had remained behind at the final whistle but so desperate is Tottenham's predicament that it will surely be only a matter of time before sections of the support turn.

Āzād's predicament, and his desperate attempts to resolve it, find echoes in many other modern South Asian literatures, and beyond South Asia as well.

This, however, puts him in the predicament of a rebellious youth desperate to break out of its parents' clutches but unable to afford it.