Sentence examples for familiar predicament from inspiring English sources
Rupert Murdoch finds himself in a familiar predicament as he considers a bid for The Los Angeles Times: awaiting rule changes from the government, Amy Chozick reports.
Once again Niger is facing a food crisis, a grimly familiar predicament in a vast desert country with an explosive birthrate and rudimentary agriculture.
The transit police found themselves in a familiar predicament: a case in which a crime is captured on video but no one can identify the perpetrator.
This is becoming a familiar predicament in baseball, with its huge salaries and its growing roster of superstars linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
After losing to the Indiana Pacers last night, the New York Knicks find themselves in a familiar predicament: in the midst of a tough and untimely losing streak, with isolation offense and Carmelo Anthony serving as scapegoats for their failures.
It is a familiar predicament for the Brotherhood, which has been banned for most of its 85-year history and has successfully fought off every threat to its existence.
Roger has died in bizarre circumstances while pursuing an obsession (a familiar enough predicament for a Coe character); hunting down the print of a short film, The Crystal Garden, that he remembers – or thinks he remembers – seeing on television as a child, in which a young boy comes across a magical walled garden filled with crystallised flowers and fountains.
Ah, a predicament familiar to many of us, especially on cold, dark or rainy mornings when a warm bed can seem insidiously alluring compared with an early jog.
Mark Warren, managing editor of the student travel guides Let's Go and a Harvard senior, is all too familiar with this predicament.
Tienne Vu, a screenwriter, found the predicament familiar; two years ago, her Upper West Side apartment building was sold and prepared for conversion.
Debra Kawaller, 58, of Northport went to a canning workshop because of a predicament familiar to many gardeners: She had a peach tree full of fruit that was ready to be harvested.
