Sentence examples for in a major bind from inspiring English sources

Duval County, where nearly 5,000 of the 291,000 ballots cast on Election Day registered no vote for president in the machine count, was in a major bind.

It's understandable: after doing routine after routine in practices during the week, then in front of a worldwide audience in a major competition, Douglas was bound to miss one routine.

Observe over time which cab companies seem to be the most accommodating (especially when you find yourself in major binds) and try to support them.

Wander by any tourist souvenir shop in a major city in Europe and Asia and you're bound to see a red-and-white replica Manchester United sweatshirt with the No. 10 and the name Beckham on the back.

Protein A is a major surface bound virulence factor found in all examined strains of S. aureus [4].

Approximately 0.5% of circulating TTR is involved in the secondary transport of thyroid hormones T3 and T4 while a major portion exists in bound form to retinol binding protein[31], [32], [33].

As can be seen in Figure 2, there was a major variation in the absolute Δ G bind obtained with the various methods, up to 210 kJ/mol, and even the relative affinities varied by up to 85 kJ/mol.

All this leaves US Airways, considered the weakest of the major network airlines, in a bind and a distant rival in a business where scale matters.

That puts Turkey in a double bind.

Mr Rutte is in a double bind.

Smaller colleges are in a particular bind.