There is nothing easy about the predicament facing Mr. Obama and his party now.
But whatever the wearisome aspects of walking and mass transit, of being viewed by skeptical friends as an eccentric Mary Poppins wafted by air, I had an easy answer to any predicament in my car-free life.
In any event, there is an easy solution to their predicament: they can return the money, and no one will ever need to know that they were on The List to begin with.
Ultimately, each country presents its own set of tangled problems and predicaments, with no easy answers.
(Home ownership means a lot to Mosley: his first mystery novel, "Devil in a Blue Dress," opened with Easy Rawlins in a similar predicament — out of work and about to lose his house to the bank).
While the government insisted it would protect the needy while ensuring those who can contribute do so, Lucy's predicament showed how easy it was to fall through the gap.
The usual easy way out of this predicament is the appeal to "potentiality" to explain the status of the radioactivity prior to the arrival of any animals.
There are no easy answers to America's predicament, for either the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama or the businesses that have bet heavily on China.
It is easy, too, to sympathise with the predicament he has found himself in after making his revelations and wishing, understandably, to avoid decades in prison.
But it's easy to imagine yourself in his predicament and conclude that – after two years of solitude – you might act just like him.
While it might be easy to sympathize with Labour's predicament, the decision to compromise represented a triumph of short-term thinking over principle and Britain's long-term interests.
