Sentence examples for in a serious bind from inspiring English sources

But the prime minister is in a serious bind.

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to free expression and put librarians in a serious bind this week by upholding a law requiring libraries to use filters on all computers with Internet access.

More than energy prices, the double-whammy of slower home appreciation and ARMs resets over the next couple of years could put household budgets in a serious bind.

For instance, many of the people who bought new construction on spec have backed out, leaving builders in a serious bind.

If one of the Big Four were to go under, roughly one fourth of all publicly traded firms would be in a serious bind when it comes to meeting regulatory requirements.

Signing a contract with a buyer whose purchase of your home is contingent on the sale of his or her own property may also put you in a serious bind if you need to close by a particular date.

Commentators noted that the Fed was in a particularly serious bind in deciding whether to say anything about the economy Tuesday.

Sometimes I stare at the faces of the Dust Bowl farmers who Steinbeck interviewed; those guys were in an ultimately serious bind.

I say this confidently, because when Sky TV chose to spend more than £25m of our monthly subscription fee on Sofie Grabol, animatronic polar bears, kitting out a cast of hundreds head to foot in Canada goose and situating them in a recreated Swedish Arctic research centre (in Iceland), well, the channel was bound to factor in a serious promotional budget.

I agree with Joe Nocera that Congress placed the Postal Service in a serious financial bind in 2006, when it directed the Postal Service to "prefund" retiree health care benefits.

Shortly after this hard-working, penny-pinching, family-loving man died, we learned that he had run up enormous debt, leaving my mother in a serious financial bind.