And how do you feel about the constant metaphors Frank Underwood and the other characters use to describe their predicaments (both political and personal)?
So while reading a good novel about an asylum seeker might not convert us into an advocate of a more humanitarian approach to refugee protection – assuming that this is something to be desired – it will surely give us a greater insight into the human predicaments at the heart of the issue.
Speaking about Ed Miliband's political predicaments, Mandelson said the right wing had been good at handling rhetoric of austerity and deficit reduction but warned the centre-left against reverting to old arguments and "business and bank bashing".
That such folk use immigration to explain their predicaments is perhaps for lack of other subjects.
Most constituents' predicaments arise from excessive or incomprehensible paperwork, shoddy consumer protections and impassive bureaucracies.
Those in such predicaments are drawn to clinics which offer counselling to gay people and services including what is often touted as a "cure".
In fact, one of the subjects laid the blame for her predicaments squarely on the shoulders of the people around her.Neurobiologists have long known that the brain can compensate for some sorts of injury that are sustained during the course of its development.
If growth evaporates, a downgrade would be a certainty, raising debt costs even more.Such predicaments are not uncommon, but Brazil's monetary problems are.
At the core of the novel are questions about travel, exile, loss, happiness, love and poetry that relate Ursula and her companions to 20th-century predicaments.
Savas Robolis, head of research at INE-GSEE, a union-backed think-tank, says that over two-thirds of Greek employees are 43 or older.In this section Left behind It's grim down south ReprintsYet despite their similar predicaments, the youth of southern Europe has responded to the crisis in very different ways.
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.
