Sentence examples for our present predicament from inspiring English sources
I think of that history when I think of our present predicament in the United States.
"What, me worry?" is not a good response to our present predicament.
Michael Howard offers an analysis of our present predicament by discussing those issues that cause war and make peace.
Or at least, that is the implication of this stimulating and depressing book, for Mishra doesn't really offer any solution to our present predicament.
But we have to acknowledge that a complete solution is not possible unless we address the core beliefs from which our present predicament has emerged.
There is, to return to Dante, a mezzo del cammin sensibility to this collection: the only escape from our present predicament, O'Brien seems to say, is death.
This is an understandable agenda if one were to examine history and our present predicaments, many related to conflicts caused by religious superstitions.
Reading in Zweig's memoir how, during the years of Hitler's rise to power, many well-meaning people "could not or did not wish to perceive that a new technique of conscious cynical amorality was at work," it's difficult not to think of our own present predicament.
So long as he could frame the issue as anything but political -- in Manichean terms more appropriate to the war on terror than our present Iraq predicament -- the president had the upper hand.
Mackrell's previous book was a biography of Lydia Lopokova, the "Bloomsbury Ballerina" who married John Maynard Keynes and was therefore, according to Niall Ferguson, responsible for our present economic predicament by failing to produce the children that would have given the economist a stake in the future.
Sound familiar?" For all the differences between France's fight to keep Algeria — a country it had occupied since 1830 — and America's current dispensation in Iraq, the parallels between the drama of insurgency and counter-insurgency in "The Battle of Algiers" and our present Iraqi predicament are as clear and as depressing as the Pentagon film programmers promised.
