Sentence examples for double predicament from inspiring English sources

If that weren't bad enough, women in science face a double predicament: research also suggests that people subconsciously judge women who are clearly successful in masculine jobs as being less "likable", which can also hold them back in their careers.

Meanwhile in Canary Wharf, things have gone even more pear-shaped for Kathryn Woodfine: "My Double Decker predicament has gone from bad to worse," she says.

AT 39 and with four features to her name, Sofia Coppola finds herself caught in something of a double bind — the predicament of the auteur whose constancy risks being seen as predictability, or worse.

Nauman is a bard of mental predicaments: tautology, double bind, Beckettian futility.

The court faces the predicament of either doubling down on the myth that legal decision-making is "objective" — like Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s metaphor of an umpire calling balls and strikes — or admitting that legal decision-making requires choosing among conflicting perspectives in which different values are promoted.

Mr. DeVito's comedies have often explored the murderous rage that lurks within the hearts of otherwise civilized people, and this one, sharply written by Larry Doyle, turns Alex and Nancy's predicament into a double-edged satire of gentrification, yuppie entitlement and New York real-estate obsession.

Adding $600 billion to the public debt as we are in order to drive the rate of inflation up 1%– to in effect double the rate of inflation only underscores the predicament faced by Bernanke and ultimately Obama.

This double legacy of supporting Israel and the Algerian struggle symbolized the predicament of the entire postwar European left.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a similar predicament in the 1930s when the possibility of a double-dip Depression loomed.

Britain's predicament may not fulfil the arbitrary statistical definition of a double-dip recession, but a recovery this is not.

One of the main options put forth to amend this predicament was to offer me a different, unfamiliar role with a location that would double my commute.