Sentence examples for fraught circumstances from inspiring English sources

This dish was created in fraught circumstances.

They must also take into account the peculiarly fraught circumstances of the people whose case they are considering.

So Te'o stood in front of more than 200 reporters and dozens of television cameras jammed around a podium at the scouting combine, his first news conference held under the most fraught circumstances.

ALBANY — Between the solemn invocations and bagpipe tributes on Wednesday afternoon, it was hard to overlook the fact that this year's annual tribute to fallen New York police officers took place under unusually fraught circumstances.

Only later is it revealed that the girls were adopted (under highly fraught circumstances), so that even if a parent can identify Heather, there will be no corroborating DNA proof.

The fraught circumstances of the Berlin airlift in 1948-9 had convinced Bevin that western European cooperation was insufficient in itself, and required the external support of the US.

Another early use is in George O'Neil's 1931 novel about the poet John Keats, "Special Hunger": "For Keats this was a singularly fraught circumstance".

In fraught political circumstances, like those that beset Israel, the quality of leadership can be tested by national catastrophe.

Mr. Boyle is also adept at conveying situations fraught with peril, circumstances that are threatening to spin out of control or that have already unraveled beyond repair.

In the central section of the book – and since this is a sonata, there is a key change into the present tense – we go back in time to the fraught and complicated circumstances in which Gustav was conceived.

His famous book, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, was the garrulous shaggy dog story that began to be published in 1760, in which the hero, after chapters and chapters filled with wacky invention, somehow never gets any further than the fraught and chaotic circumstances of his own birth.