Sentence examples for predicament means from inspiring English sources

Valencia look set to receive £26m from selling current lead-striker Soldado to Spurs, but their financial predicament means they can't afford to bid any higher for his replacement, meaning that a second bid for Torres would be unlikely to happen.

And just as Mr. Reddin does not seem to know what Lynette's predicament means, neither do the actors.

The Hammers boss's predicament meant he only named six substitutes rather than the permitted seven.

That predicament could mean that the Coyotes' highest-paid player, the rugged left wing Keith Tkachuk could be traded before the new year.

DeWitt seems to be fond of rescuing his characters from dire predicaments by means of convenient expedients, like gunmen falling out of trees, but is this parody or laziness?

I worked as an adult careers adviser and his predicament is by no means uncommon.

("'That's some catch, that Catch-22'," observes Yossarian. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agrees.'") During the decades since its literary birth, catch-22, generally lower-cased, has come to mean any predicament in which we are caught coming and going, and in which the very nature of the problem denies and defies its solution.

Just because she's gotten them into their predicaments doesn't mean she's not fascinated by what might happen.

This leaves "Marry Me" in something of the same predicament as its leads, which means it may have to spend the next few weeks running around trying to "fix" things.

Von Braun knew that he was in the same means-and-ends predicament he'd been in since Walter Dornberger first walked into the Raketenflugplatz, two decades earlier: if he was ever to crown his missiles with men, he would first have to let them carry bombs.

Serbian film director Mina Djukic believes occupying the cinema is also a means of highlighting the predicament of independent films in Serbia.