"The advantage of this unfortunate situation is, the Republicans have no place to place blame," she said.
It must be said, this is an unfortunate place to stage a major sporting occasion, if only because there is no obvious way of getting to the barracks outside of a hopeful bus ride and a march through Woolwich's residential thoroughfares.
We're in an unfortunate place, but we needn't travel back there to describe it.
"We have come to an unfortunate place as a country," she told me.
For the ditch-digging enthusiast, however, there isn't a more unfortunate place to work than the Catskills.
Along with other Southeast Asian countries, Thailand — in spite of a development boom in recent decades — has been one such unfortunate place.
The most simplistic, least charitable interpretation is that "Iraq" is shorthand for any unfortunate place, like Beirut was in the eighties, or Sarajevo in the nineties — a dismissive way of invoking another country, and a dissociative way of talking about one's own.
Just as the North Carolina law is bundled with suppression of wage increases, it comes on the heels of agenda-based law that has sought to suppress the African-American vote, tighten the vice on women and their bodies and, in essence, keep a large part of southern society in a very old, familiar and unfortunate place.
For that you're sent a cotton swab, wipe your inner cheek and that of, say, your child, send it in to a lab where a test is run to prove or disprove the relationship.In fact, DNA testing has become so cheap that earlier this year, one manager at a British firm threatened to test his 80-person department to find the miscreant who had left a used piece of chewing gum in an unfortunate place.
In a form-fitting dress, she discovered that the attached corset part in the front was bulging out a little bit, giving her a rather unfortunate lump in an even more unfortunate place.
