Sentence examples for on a predicament from inspiring English sources

This brought on a predicament.

Etiquette isn't quite as unstable as fashion — it changes at about the rate that men's clothes do — but not long ago a friend in her twenties, whose roommate was planning a formal wedding, solicited my advice on a predicament Mrs. Post never had to face.

Etiquette isn't quite as unstable as fashion it changes at about the rate that men's clothes do but not long ago a friend in her twenties, whose roommate was planning a formal wedding, solicited my advice on a predicament Mrs. Post never had to face.

"Historicism and Its Supplements: A Note on a Predicament Shared by Medieval and Postcolonial Studies". In Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of "the Middle Ages" Outside Europe, edited by Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul, 109 22.

When The Independent interviewed Dr Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid, then professor of Islamic Philosophy at Cairo University, and his wife Dr Ibtihal Younis, a graduate of the Sorbonne who taught French Literature, they tried to put a brave face on their predicament.

But I was no child, no naïve self-deceiver intent on evading a predicament.

WALTER TURNBULL, the tall, barrel-chested director of the Boys Choir of Harlem, is mulling over a predicament on a recent morning in his cluttered office as classical music from a stereo wafts through.

It began: "Dear the doctors and nurses of [our hospital]," and went on neatly to summarise a predicament affecting so many in our society.

Still, the same obstacles persist; the powerful countervailing considerations include these issues: A predicament on citizenship There's a fairly broad consensus for ending the illegal status of the undocumented.

It's monotonous, and so you just bide your time and slowly but surely people will stop being so defensive about it and realize that they have a real predicament on their hands; not a predicament that we caused, but a predicament caused by the data," Roughgarden says.

The Sheikh Down, Mother Jones, September 2009 Living temporarily in Damascus, Bauer took time off in November 2008 to visit the magnificent Crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers in western Syria – with remarkable conclusions about the American occupation of Iraq, and an ending which – given his present predicament – ends on a note of fearful irony.