In other words, too many people – in London, chiefly – are getting very excited about devolution in the abstract, without taking account of the often impossible predicaments faced by the people who are running our cities, boroughs and counties.
The cure for daytime fatigue or inconsistent sleep patterns can often be linked to daily routines, overall lifestyle of an individual and some health predicaments faced by some individuals.
Of all the predicaments facing the BBC, listeners struggling to distinguish between Radio 1 and Radio 2 was never one of them.
The sad irony of the predicaments facing newspapers today is that their troubles are not a function of loss of audience.
Now Bhatti is back in Birmingham with a piece about the tensions and tenacity of family life that not only got the warmest of receptions but that also says a lot about the peculiar predicaments facing British Asians.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, and, above all, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, who together dominated both fashion and portrait photography for almost half a century and straddled the lines between museum and magazine, high portraiture and low commercials, all came to seem, in their oscillations between glamour and gloom, exemplary of the predicaments facing the American artist.
The Chinese government meanwhile has yet to name the chief of its own, outsized investment fund, which will be split off from its $1 trillion-worth of foreign-exchange reserves.The predicaments facing Mr Buffett, the consummate capitalist, and the Chinese government, still avowedly communist, meet on many levels.
However, current studies and demonstrations have focused mainly on specific technologies and equipment types, which cannot in themselves solve the predicaments facing EVs.
Missouri congressman Todd Akin's outrageously weird assertion that a woman cannot get pregnant from "forcible rape" exposes three predicaments facing the Republican Party.
Nor are they meant to highlight local norms of rights and entitlements as a panacea for all the issues associated with realizing rights, or for the myriad predicaments facing modern states.
It is the predicament faced by the Queens Museum of Art.
