But there is an upside, and that mainly consists of the extraordinary support he has received since news of his predicament was made public by the Guardian.
Arguably the most perceptive distillation of Mr. Koppel's predicament was made by Mr. Koppel himself, in a little-noticed sentence in his Times Op-Ed manifesto.
Bland had suffered a breakdown, a seemingly inglorious end for a man trained to fight and lead men, and his predicament was made worse by the unforgiving attitude of his commanding officer.
He said Ms. Cheng's predicament was made more difficult by the university's disciplinary rules, under which a student can base an appeal only on the mishandling of an investigation -- not on the facts.
But no one wants to go there, and revolution is evaded in favor of a vague, apocalyptic premonition.... Mentions an ernest demonstration by French students, favoring longer school hours... a permanent French predicament: life is made miserable for teen-agers and sweetens only in late maturity.
And once a cheaper offering is made, Apple will likely have to face a similar predicament every year.
The bank's predicament has been made worse by its acquisition of parts of ABN, the Dutch bank, at the top of the market last summer.
Such a predicament can be made easier if young adults are given information beforehand on where they should go when they no longer can or wish to visit the youth clinic [ 24].
In the Japanese edition of Newsweek, Takashi Yokota and Toshihiro Yamada wrote that, in the emphasis on the workers, the "predicament of the victims has been made secondary".
"We're in a weird predicament in that … [4:14 Scream] was made by a band that no longer exists".
And yet the most ambitious plan to confront this perilous predicament is to make voting in European elections take place the same day throughout the European Union, and for the president of the European Commission to be popularly elected.
