Sentence examples for for our predicament from inspiring English sources

"Catastrophe is almost too kind a word for our predicament".

After 63 years, it no longer matters who is to blame for our predicament.

We tend to blame the world for our predicament and simply accuse the United States for all what is happening as part of an elaborate scheme.

But blaming Donald Rumsfeld for our predicament in Iraq makes as much sense as blaming Paris Hilton for the trashiness of American pop culture: It's an exercise in scapegoating that lets too many others -- including the American people -- off the hook.

So he now feels called to a kind of mission: to describe what is happening, to single out the specific failures and misdeeds of politicians, energy companies, environmental activists and journalists who share responsibility for our predicament, and then propose bold solutions that -- unlike more timid blueprints already on the public agenda -- would in his view actually solve the problem.

When we reach this point, it's human nature to look at the person we blame for our predicament.

Another possibility derives from the psychological theory that explanations most accessible to us to account for our predicaments are vital determinants of our morale.

In other words, here was the outline for exactly our predicament today.

Third, and most important for our current predicament, Republicans showed an unprecedented plunge in trust when Obama took office.

Market forces had never been truly free, and therefore they bore none of the blame for our current predicament.

Perhaps the most direct precedent for our current predicament is what happened after the Great Fire of 1835.