Sentence examples for predicament down from inspiring English sources

On Sunday, the Europeans found themselves in the same predicament, down by 10-6 with 12 singles matches remaining.

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.

If the left's predicament comes down to a single fault, it is this.

Acknowledging the irony of her predicament ("Deep down, I was never remotely tempted to reproach Jacques for his sexual conduct"), she internalizes her suffering, repeatedly conjuring fantasies of passively observing Jacques in flagrante delicto.

Hewitt, 24, is a handful for anybody, but especially for a player like Dent, whose predicament boiled down to whether he should stay back and try to trade baseline strokes with one of the game's finest retrievers or go to the net and risk being pinned by Hewitt's precision.

When her predicament emerged, Downing Street officials stressed this was a "local council issue", an argument Riven does not accept, instead tracing a direct link between budget cuts imposed by central government on local authorities and the squeezed resources available to families with disabled children.

She said she sympathizes with Downing's predicament but said Downing also showed a reckless disregard for the welfare of the children and is responsible for their deaths.

The court faces the predicament of either doubling down on the myth that legal decision-making is "objective" — like Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s metaphor of an umpire calling balls and strikes — or admitting that legal decision-making requires choosing among conflicting perspectives in which different values are promoted.

For the past nine months we've been facing an odd predicament, hiring in a down market.

At least publicly, American officials had hoped for a power-sharing deal that would avert a more dangerous predicament, but those negotiations broke down this week.

But while Mr. Macy plays the predicament, the clownishness is played down; "Analyze This" and "The Sopranos" found comedy and pathos in similar circumstances, whereas "Panic" finds tragedy.