Sentence examples for predicament it is from inspiring English sources

But, more to the point, the state is in the fiscal predicament it is in largely because it has unwisely spent its current tax revenues in boom times to grow programs that cannot be sustained in economic downturns.

As an allegory for America's current leadership predicament, it is nothing less than terrifying.

BMW's havering sums up the industry's predicament: it is stuck in neutral and on the brink of reverse.

Considering Dortmund's current predicament, it is fair to say that the club's recent occupation of Bayern's perch was just as short-lived as Bremen's, Hamburg's and Gladbach's before them.

In our own current global predicament, it is all too easy to fall for the idea that for art to be relevant, it must address the global situation; it must be didactic and edifying and morally imploring.

Just as the split personality embodied by Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is sometimes read as symbolic of the Scottish predicament, it is in the predicament of the Anglo-Irish, caught uneasily between two civilizations and feeling out of place in both, that its characteristic voice ironic, detached, nostalgic, often Gothic is to be heard.

We cite this as a platitude today without absorbing or even realizing its radical nature in human history -- and the deep human predicament it was designed to solve.

Professor Sheffi of M.I.T. said of Boeing's predicament: "It's a bear.

He put us in that predicament – it was his view that put us in harm's way.

There they made a fable out of a predicament; it was as if documentarians had been hired to record a fairy tale.

It's Kid Auto Races that the centenary springs from – filmed just after Mabel's Strange Predicament, it was released two days earlier.