Otherwise, a manager might be mired in time-consuming detective work instead of running the restaurant.
Or, more likely, that agenda might get mired in the simple complexity of legislative negotiation even within one party.
The prospect that Russian forces might be mired in a bitter and open-ended war during the election season must be unattractive for the Putin team.
In terrorism trials, facts may be unclear, some methods used by Bush administration officials to gather evidence were shadowy and perhaps tainted, and the evidence itself might be mired in the kinds of secrets that officials say could affect national security.
"So after 4 years in the graduate program, you might be mired in figuring out your thesis work, but people who you became very close to in medical school are now graduating and departing.
One is whether Italy's tax collectors might find themselves mired in a quagmire of conflicting definitions.
But the biggest risk is that Spain, Italy and Greece, in particular, might be still mired in recession this time next year.
Might Republicans be mired in a different and deeper rut, dragged down by an unusual confluence of problems as the party faces an exceptionally potent opponent in Barack Obama?
A study out this week from Fitch Ratings and Oxford Economics suggests that stimulus spending in America in response to the fiscal crisis increased aggregate GDP by more than 4%, which, say the researchers, implies "that the US might still be mired in a recession" without the intervention.The unemployment rate in the euro zone continued to creep up again in March, to 10.9%.
It did so on the grounds that the economic boost from introducing 3G should be bigger than the one-off windfall from an auction that might have got mired in corruption allegations.Pakistan's new government, however, needed cash to replenish its foreign reserves.
