As if to underscore the gravity of his legal predicament, Private Manning offered last month to plead guilty to lesser charges that could send him to prison for 16 years.
Volunteer households help us by taking homeless people into their homes for a period of time while we find solutions, often in the private sector, to their predicament.
The homelessness and immiseration of the poor, on this account, is not a result of private property; it is simply the natural predicament of mankind from which a few energetic appropriators have managed to extricate themselves.
When Sam secretly begins writing a screenplay about their predicament and pilfers ideas from Lucy's private journal, the marriage is imperiled.
Only then do we face the predicament of having to perform a deeply private act in the presence of others.
This predicament is hardly unique to the states where private probation operates.
One soldier, Private Wallace Jenkins, is left still semi-conscious and painfully aware of his predicament, unable to control his movement or actions as his former friends and he attack McKay's troops.
"It's as if you're in prison," is how a disgruntled 15-year-old named Mariam Saeed described her predicament, sitting poolside one Wednesday morning inside a posh, well-guarded private club.
But she warned that if the Port Authority awarded a ferry contract to another private company, like SeaStreak or New York Water Taxi, commuters would soon find themselves in the same predicament of fare increases and limited schedules.
Despite his antics and publicity stunts, according to writer John Cloud, "none understood how his public role could affect private lives better than Milk ... [he] knew that the root cause of the gay predicament was invisibility".
