Sentence examples for impossible bind from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the lavish attentions of the media left Beamer in an impossible bind.

That would poison cross-Channel relations for a generation, and put Ireland in an impossible bind.

The real Hall was caught in an impossible bind, but the material conditions of his situation don't feel amenable to dramatization.

This is an impossible bind that could only be resolved by the two governments agreeing on a compromise, something that after months of bitter official wrangling looked unlikely.

That means, Justice Thomas wrote, that makers of generic drugs are caught in an impossible bind: they can comply with a state law requiring them to change their labels or the federal law prohibiting changes, but not both.

Anyone who attempts to challenge Big Oil and Gas is in an impossible bind, because whether their work has merit or not they will likely be placed under a microscope and met with alarming hostility.

The son of a rabbi, Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss) captured the world's attention by freeing himself from any number of impossible binds from straitjackets to locked boxes submerged in frigid waters.

By intertwining her story with her father's, she offers a raw take on the impossible binds of family trauma — how it gets passed, hot-potato-style, across generations; how it provokes rebellions that tie us to the very sources we'd set out to subvert; and how, if we're lucky, it gets mediated through creative labors that require holding pride and shame in the same open palm.

At an early stage, Shadle explains, native composers found themselves in an impossible double bind: "If works were too 'American,' they were not serious enough; if they were too 'European,' they were not original enough".

This led the Office of Legal Counsel in 1977 to reject a plan for Justice Department lawyers and federal defenders to trade places for a while, correctly concluding that such an arrangement would put participating attorneys in an impossible ethical bind.

Without that, women are forced into an impossible double bind when they cannot make the decision that is best for them about whether to have a child – and then are denied the workplace supports they need during and after pregnancy.