However, the Fed's newest policymaker, Rob Kaplan, struck a more equivocal note in an interview, saying the central bank faces a "tricky situation" with a global slowdown.
Susan Lerner, the head of Common Cause New York, a good-government group, said that Mr. Bloomberg faced "a tricky situation," given that Mr. Goldsmith had not been charged with a crime.
In the top diagram, Caruana, the No. 6 player in the world, faced a tricky situation against Hikaru Nakamura, an American who is No. 5. Caruana had to play 14... fg6 but instead went with 14... hg6.
Cameron faces a tricky situation with EU immigration because reducing the number of new arrivals is likely to require changing the fundamental right of citizens to live and work elsewhere in the bloc.
University administrators face a tricky situation when it comes to their players' activity on social media, balancing issues of privacy while trying to guard against the possibility that an errant posting on Twitter or Facebook could result in trouble for an athlete or the athletic department.
This, I soon found, was a characteristic tactic: when faced with a tricky situation, he starts throwing out random facts.
But when faced with a tricky situation, we often get passive; so much so that many of us have a hard time knowing what we feel.
The possibility that Mr. Richard could face criminal charges creates a tricky situation for the company, in which the state holds 27 percent of the shares.
