It's a familiar trope, one that surfaces early in life in fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, where serious problems like hunger and poverty are replaced by straightforward predicaments with obvious culprits, Nussbaum said, adding that the "simple fix" concept was likely aimed at soothing childhood terrors.
I'd been warned beforehand by other NASA officials not to broach the topic of global warming; in any event, NASA's predicament became obvious as soon as we climbed up on a dune overlooking Launch Complex 39, from which the Apollo missions left for the moon, and where any future Mars mission would likely begin.
Japan's predicament seems obvious.
One of the less obvious penalties of stereotyping is a predicament known as stereotype threat, first defined by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995.
There is, though, an obvious danger in characterising young people's predicament as a largely matter of generational distribution.
Nor does Bibi, a former prime minister who would like his old job back, have an obvious reason to ease Mr Sharon out of his predicament.
And there are several letters from Vivienne to other correspondents which vividly illuminate Eliot's predicament, though it is not immediately obvious why they and not others have been included.
In the present predicament as a nation, it is obvious that depending mainly on fossil fuel (petroleum) is not enough to meet the energy needs of the country.
This predicament is likely caused by an obvious disconnect between controlled animal models and the heterogeneous clinical sepsis syndrome observed in humans [ 13].
As medics came and went tending to Joao's gauges and nozzles, we spent a few hours discussing the various predicaments of their field, beginning with the obvious mystery: Why do they do this crazy work?
For Dr. Kwon, Mr. Cartier's predicament posed a puzzle because he lacked some obvious signs of trouble; his implant, which was made by Stryker, had not been recalled, and the device had been implanted properly.
