Sentence examples for quagmire from from inspiring English sources

"Darfur has been a quagmire from the beginning.

They are portraits of the abyss, the quagmire from which civilization nonetheless continues to arise.

What feels at first like firm ground quickly becomes a quagmire from which the show never quite extricates itself.

As Barack Obama is dragged back towards the Iraqi quagmire from which he thought he had escaped, Iran spots a chance to strengthen its influence there all the more.

For many Israelis, Lebanon seems to have become a kind of small-scale Vietnam — an invasion made for the wrong reasons, and a quagmire from which they cannot escape.

Many argue that the so-called "doubling period" – between 1998 and 2003, when the NIH budget was essentially increased by 100% – has created a quagmire from which the biomedical research enterprise has been unable to extract itself.

John Moorlach, a Republican accountant who is one of Orange County's five elected supervisors, argues that both the 1994 bankruptcy and the current pension quagmire derived from the same wishfulness: "Citron hoped that interest rates would go down, and pension-fund managers hope the stock market goes up and up and up".

However, he noted that it was the "linger[ing]" conversation scene that "sets 'Quagmire' apart from all the other standard Monster Of The Week procedurals".

But if you are looking for an image or a thought that maybe better conveys the state of mind that Afghanistan puts many foreigners in these days – definitely more "Greetings from the quagmire" than "Greetings from sunny Kandahar!" – you can find those, too.

So the ISIS caliphate may have faced an ignominious defeat, but the Syrian quagmire is far from over.

Obama hinted at the military and diplomatic quagmire he inherited from a Bush administration that had promised Americans a quick and easy war that would see Iraqis scattering flowers at the feet of US soldiers.