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extrication
noun
The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
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Following their advice, he has painted himself into a corner, from which extrication will be messy.
In the November 2007 elections, ALP leader Kevin Rudd beat Howard and his Liberal-National coalition government by a significant margin, with a program that emphasized conservation of the environment, improvement of public services, establishment of equity in the workplace, and extrication of Australian troops from the U.S.-led Iraq War.
Again, almost too neatly, Pinter's messy extrication from marriage to the unhappy Vivien Merchant, creator of his first stage heroines, becomes a harrowing slog through anguish, silence and solitude.
When danger threatens, they move into small crevices and puff up their bodies to make their extrication difficult.
For nearly two decades, "Cubist Blues" languished in used bins, awaiting extrication by some venturesome crate-digger.
But don't mistake that for any kind of successful extrication, or negotiated bilateral relationship, or return to American priorities.
Walter Lippmann, who has been trying to help us out of Vietnam from the very start, suggests in a recent issue of "Newsweek" that if our leaders, who cannot bear the sound of the word "defeat" would start thinking in terms of "failure" and "mistake", they might find the extrication process more manageable.
Returning to his house in the New Town one day in 1769, Hume, monstrously fat by then, fell into a bog and despaired of extrication until an old fishwife happened by.
Alas, it's not always so simple, especially when the sender is someone you know, or vaguely know, who might take great offense at your extrication.
In an interview from New York, where he has lived for years, Mr. Taylor said one of his main concerns is that the movie gives the false impression that that extrication of the Americans was an operation run entirely by the C.I.A. in which he and other Canadian diplomats simply followed orders".I don't want to be hard on Tony Mendez," Mr. Taylor said.
It was a long extrication to get him out.
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