Sentence examples for impossible predicaments from inspiring English sources

In other words, too many people – in London, chiefly – are getting very excited about devolution in the abstract, without taking account of the often impossible predicaments faced by the people who are running our cities, boroughs and counties.

Now, Pepper is a very hardy person who's lived through a lot of impossible predicaments—I was her roommate once for several years, for example—so it's not easy to rustle her feathers.

This is the impossible predicament facing the company's C.E.O., Rick Wagoner.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said allowing "a prosecutor to comment on a defendant's constitutionally protected silence would put that defendant in an impossible predicament".

As a character, she was given one impossible predicament after another.

If we turned back, we would simply find ourselves in the same impossible predicament.

The impossible financial predicament UC had put him in was a part of the explanation.

If past news coverage of other dissidents is any guide, Mr. Murong said he expected propaganda officials to spin a new narrative once news of his predicament becomes impossible to tamp down, criticizing Mr. Chen as an enemy of the nation.

In fact, the city's predicament already seemed impossible.

He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations.

Silas noticed Sprewell's arrival, and surely factored this into his opinion that Chaney's predicament is "an impossible situation".