Sentence examples for extreme predicament from inspiring English sources

With international attention focused on Spain's escalating banking crisis, the commission was highly critical of the Rajoy government's attempts to chart a way out of an extreme predicament – recession, soaring national debt, a ballooning budget deficit, the highest unemployment in Europe, and the banks sitting on tens of billions of toxic assets from a burst property bubble.

It says something about the extent of his addiction that this moment wasn't even close to being his low point, and that he would continue to explore and repeat the extremes of his predicament before finally getting clean in 2006.

Without Dickens's eye and ear for extreme emotional and fiscal predicaments, the story's more fantastic moments wouldn't have the weight of truth.

Paul Hancock's "Still Lives," running April 4 to 19 from SP Theater Productions at the WorkShop Theater, uses art to explore extreme human relationships and predicaments.

Her character, Eva Khatchadourian, is too complicated for pity, projecting a mixture of cold poise and extreme vulnerability that makes her predicament especially awful.

Last year our reviewer, Norman Rush, said this "unnerving" book illuminates "subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it".

That would bring Gordon Brown's views into closer alignment with those of the prime minister, thus saving both Mr Hutton's sanity and, quite possibly, his career.Mr Hutton is the secretary for work and pensions, and his predicament is an extreme version of one faced by almost every other ambitious government minister.

But Stone has proceeded to concern himself with just those ancient questions, doing his level best to illuminate subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it, knowing very well that a lot of educated people are going to think those propositions are strange.