George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who helped lead the Remain campaign, is now in an invidious situation.
P&O Ferries said: "Our staff are in an invidious situation as they see suspiciously high numbers of young dogs being presented for travel within the rules of the [Pet Travel Scheme], with what appears to be the correct documentation," a spokesman said.
An even more invidious situation for a university is when it maintains proper processes and high standards and yet comes under public attack.
However, he added: "Barclays is in the invidious situation where all banks are being regarded as potential disasters so anything they can do to show that something is okay, or to tick a box, helps".
As a solution, a broad consent to data sharing has often been obtained, which leads to the invidious situation that research participants are not informed about all the uses of their data because this is impossible at the time of recruitment.
This placed Tsipras in an invidious position.
That leaves refugees on Nauru in an invidious position.
Not all low status groups are in this invidious position.
The upshot is that Hicks is in an invidious position.
Surely that puts the Booker judges in an invidious position.
