Guy Nordenson, who has expertise in seismic codes, says, "We have a predicament not only for engineering but for planning and design in general.
"They are grasping at straws because they have a predicament in the Afghan theater that they cannot fix without Pakistan's help," said Ashley J. Tellis, a former diplomat and South Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Couple that culture of waste with partisan gridlock and you have a predicament intractable inside the Beltway.
But now we have a predicament — now you have to get out of work, and your boss is a weenie and wants to see documentation.
It's monotonous, and so you just bide your time and slowly but surely people will stop being so defensive about it and realize that they have a real predicament on their hands; not a predicament that we caused, but a predicament caused by the data," Roughgarden says.
It also has a Parent Predicament ticket, for $69 or $72 on peak days, which allows parents to swap out the use of the same lift ticket so one can take a turn on the slopes while the other watches the baby.
It's why Bill Gates is offering $100,000 to anyone who can come up with a better condom and says we have a condom predicament throughout the world.
Other couples have a different predicament: one partner is a neat freak overwhelmed by a messy living space, while other is unfazed by — or even enjoys — the clutter.
I confess that my impatience with his predicament had a lot to do with the writing.
Their predicament, however, had a happy ending, as it resulted in a kind of observation never before made.
She describes her predicament: "I had a good roof over my head but I've lost it by working.
