Sentence examples for old dilemmas from inspiring English sources

As for the old dilemmas between telling all or too little, between making friends wisely or not, 2008 will offer no progress at all.Andreas Kluth: San Francisco correspondent, The Economist.

1.26pm: Whoops, the old dilemma.

This is an old dilemma that goes back at leas as far as 1773.

Rentaquote Dan's living the dream An old dilemma for political journalists is quoting the comments of anonymous politicians.

This is an old dilemma in journalism: do you stop the action or do you report it?

If the bourgeoisie does start to protest, the party will be faced with an old dilemma: liberalise or step up repression.

That is just what opponents of fiat money feared would happen in the long run.The same old dilemma will eventually occur.

"It's the old dilemma of consumer goods: you don't want someone to buy something and never have to buy it again," said Michael Pachter, a gaming analyst.

It's the old dilemma: if you mix Oscar-level talent with gothic pap, are you embarrassing the actors or redeeming the junk?... Another strain of anxiety a different blood type, so to speak drips through "Shadow of the Vampire".

And as Fred Hassan, the boss of America's Schering-Plough and head of the international pharmaceutical lobby, warns, "without intellectual property there is no innovation".At first sight, this row reflects an old dilemma that pits today's patients against tomorrow's.

As other Europeans talk more about tax harmonisation and complain more about the independence of the new central bank, the British prime minister rediscovers the old dilemma of whether to keep his distance from a project going wrong or plunge in deeper in the hope of making it more congenial to Britain.At home, Mr Blair's decision on electoral reform is no less awkward.