Sentence examples for the basic dilemma from inspiring English sources
George Kalofolias, the Greek internet pioneer, put the basic dilemma well recently.
The basic dilemma of work and home was addressed, if not resolved, at the town hall.
The basic dilemma that was faced in Afghanistan and Iraq was that doing nothing and intervening both looked bad and risky options, but that doing nothing looked worse.
Nobody knows what 50,000 drachmas will be worth if Greece defaults on its debts, but Kiritsis and his colleagues have for months been exposed to the basic dilemma of Syriza.
The paradox stems from the basic dilemma that underpins the economics of fashion: for the industry to keep growing, customers must like this year's designs, but they must also become dissatisfied with them, so that they'll buy next year's.
Just as the epigraph to the novel, from Huysman's En Route, describes the basic dilemma, as Huysmans' narrator sits in the church of Saint-Sulpice, wondering if he can pray: "I am very much disgusted with my life, very much tired of myself, but there's a long way from there to leading another existence!" For Houellebecq is the novelist of the impasse.
But the basic dilemmas in the Gaza Strip remain unchanged.
One could easily watch and exit the play and not be sure when it was taking place: though the polemics and diatribes about women zing around the stage like so many ultimate Frisbees, we could be in any of the last four decades, so little have the basic dilemmas of the modern woman changed.
The development versus humanitarianism "has become a monotonous critique, constantly rehashing this basic dilemma and reproducing its lyrical dispositions" (Duffield, 2007: 50).
The Denver Broncos used to line up in the same formation and run the same plays, and the defense had the same basic dilemma -- either concentrate on stopping running back Terrell Davis or focus on limiting quarterback John Elway.
And this swing to the far right prompts the more basic dilemma: do I even want to be part of the same electorate as millions of closet Nazis in mainland Europe?
