Sentence examples for was in difficulties from inspiring English sources

The economy was in trouble; immigration was falling off; the political system was in difficulties.

A crew from the Chiswick RNLI station were passing along the river when they noticed the Oxford boat was in difficulties.

She was head of Monteney Primary in Sheffield when she was asked by her local authority to support a school that was in difficulties.

He said that BP knew it was in difficulties and that tragedy could have been averted with "as little as a 10-second phone call" or "a 30-second walk down to the tool pusher".

Poundland's move comes after fellow budget retailer Primark concluded that it could not trade profitably online while poundshop.com, an online store started by Poundland founder Steve Smith, was in difficulties.

His relationship with his wife Ann, the former Lady Rothermere, was in difficulties, provoked in part by their unconcealed infidelities but also by the tendency of Ann's circle of literary friends, who included Evelyn Waugh, to look down on a mere writer of spy thrillers, their disdain almost certainly exacerbated by his commercial success.

West was in difficulty after ruffing.

But by her second service game Hlavackova was in difficulty.

He was in difficulty all the way around.

Dummy's jack was taken by the queen, and East was in difficulty.

West Bromwich building society denied reports last week saying it was in difficulty.