Sentence examples for in difficult straits from inspiring English sources

EDO was also in difficult straits.

Individual doctors are not the only ones in difficult straits.

And the companies in the advertising-based Internet area are in difficult straits.

Even with the cost-cutting the company is demanding, The Globe would be deep in the red, and the Times Company, which reported a $74.5 million first-quarter loss, would remain in difficult straits.

He acknowledges that Mexico was in difficult straits on the eve of Nafta, but he attributes these problems to the Mexican government's abandonment of older high-tariff import substitution policies.

The two are in difficult straits for very different reasons -- a long slump and thorny debt and fiscal problems in Argentina, an energy crisis and eroding confidence in Brazil -- but their fates are inevitably intertwined.

Ben Bernanke is once again warning politicians in America not to send the economy back into difficult straits by allowing the economy to run off the "fiscal cliff".

"Obama is in such difficult straits but has eight or nine people working so diligently for him," Mr Lear said.

The auto industry was collapsing, the housing was start[ing] to collapse and we were in very difficult straits.

It is now difficult for even the most bullish of China analysts to argue that the economy is not in very difficult straits that look to persist at least for several quarters.

"And anyway this is not the right time for Greece to start a legal procedure when the country is in such difficult straits financially and socially," he told the Guardian.