Sentence examples for take predicament from inspiring English sources

For some presumably artistic reason, 45 minutes later, the middle schoolers are speeding on a highway looking forward to the weekend parties (note: though in the car, the indecisive Miss Black is still grappling with this whole "which seat do I take?" predicament).

The movie was written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, a filmmaker of considerable cunning, who takes predicaments that should by rights deflate the heart — an H.I.V. diagnosis in "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013), a psychological debacle in "Wild" (2014) — and turns them into nimble entertainments.

But it is hard to care about the people in orbit, as seriously as you're asked to take their predicaments and sacrifices.

Is the former Telegraph owner really taking his predicament seriously?

In the three decades of the Troubles, Bill Clinton was the first, the only American president to take the Irish predicament to heart.

In "A Hero of the Celtic Renaissance" (Op-Ed, Dec. 15), Thomas Lynch describes Bill Clinton as "the only American president to take the Irish predicament to heart".

In ancient Egypt, three servants who have been entombed with their master's body to accompany him to the afterworld argue about what they should do to free themselves from their predicament: take action or have faith in divine assistance.

But some have argued rescuing the children should be the responsibility of Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan, who has been widely-criticised for failing to take the girls' predicament seriously until domestic and international pressure forced him to do so some two weeks after the 14 April incident.

The Nigerian leader has been criticised for failing to take the girls' predicament seriously until domestic and international pressure forced him to do so some two weeks after the 14 April incident, where Islamist militants snatched some 270 schoolgirls aged mainly between 16 and 18 years old from their dormitories at a school in the north-eastern state of Borno.

But as Washington went back to the drawing boards after each of these defeats, Mori had what he needed: time to convince prosecutors there was no real evidence against his client, and time to persuade Australia to take Hick's predicament seriously.

Wodehouse depends on all the characters taking their predicaments very seriously.