This is what occurred on the Hudson River on January 15th, when human beings demonstrated that they can--and will--rise above their predicament even against the odds.
Awarded classic status and read today in US high schools, the book has repeatedly been identified as a complete literary statement of the slaves' bleak predicament, considered against the possibility of their inalienable rights to citizenship and human dignity.
WIMBLEDON, England — Back on Court 1, Ana Ivanovic, the No. 1 seed, found herself in the same predicament: down match point against a woman ranked far, far below her.
I've passed through their transoms one way or another throughout the years….As far as this film is concerned, you find yourself in this strange predicament where you're against other Republicans, but you all want to win, and you want your perspective heard".
In the 1999 French Open final against Andrei Medvedev, his predicament was eerily similar to what he faced today, right down to the raindrops.
Many in the Bush campaign team, notably former President George Bush, expressed sympathy for Mr. Ashcroft's political predicament in having to run against a dead candidate and admired his comportment when he accepted defeat.
Against this skeptical predicament of the first generation of Critical Theory, it could be said without exaggeration that Habermas's basic philosophical endeavor from Knowledge and Human Interests to The Theory of Communicative Action has been to develop a more modest, fallibilist, empirical account of the philosophical claim to universality and rationality.
After covering the Kafkaesque nightmare of the Pirate Bay's current legal predicament and the apparent infowar against pirates in Sweden, it appears that Gottfrid Svartholm one of the Pirate Bay's founders has now been sent to solitary confinement in Sweden.
Agamemnon's predicament emerges as neither a war against the Trojans, nor an argument with the gods, but a battle against the far more capricious forces of the media.
Lacking larger predicaments to rebel against, rock songwriters nursed petty slights and childhood traumas.
