Sentence examples for predicament using from inspiring English sources
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing.
Australia, in a similar predicament, used Singapore's servers at the time of launch.
Alas, having escaped one moral predicament (by using other people's money to purchase superior wines at their lowest quotations), I've dug myself another.
From here, a second layer of selective coding was applied to uncover how teachers attempted to work through a given predicament by using Goel and Pirolli's (1992) "design problem invariants".
That pretty much sums up this entire predicament of men using their power to belittle women.
It accused Israel of using the predicament of Gaza patients to score a political point, saying healthcare for the ill should remain a purely humanitarian act.
Marlon Forrester is a sculptor who tackles just such a predicament in his art, using humor as a mitigating channel for the steam ventilating in the face of overwhelming racial cliches.
However, it was more painful when I was at the peak of my career, ready to build a start-up company and then being stopped halfway by a physical predicament that led to using crutches for almost one year while going through tough sessions of physiotherapy.
Introduced as "a picture book for grownups," it inverts the didacticism of some children's literature, using the predicaments of its young characters to teach adults a few lessons about how the world works.
The predicament almost exclusively used in discussions of torture is the so-called "ticking bomb" scenario: an evil terrorist is withholding critical information about an imminent attack, and in order to save thousands of lives, he must be tortured to elicit the details.
The simplest way to avoid this predicament is to use a special email just for work, and only give it to customers and coworkers to keep all notices career-oriented.
