In football terms, McCoist is being forced to handle an almighty debacle, one which will surely get a lot worse before it improves.
The catastrophic trembling that overtakes Lucidus whenever he is forced to handle a loaded pistol is a nifty bit of physical comedy; he's like a marionette attached to a jackhammer.
The NRA's legal efforts to overturn the Brady Bill led to a Supreme Court ruling in 1997 which declared that under the 10th Amendment, state and local law enforcement officials could not be forced to handle the background checks.
Harvick, 27, had been forced to handle so much pressure as Earnhardt's replacement that Childress, 57, assured him a year ago that he still thought Harvick had the talent to battle through a slump.
In the last year, he said, he had been forced to handle issues left by others even though he had long preferred to tackle different matters, like broadband and wireless regulation.
Lacking the option of a Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, where the United States has held terrorism suspects for years without charge to keep them away from the American homeland and access to its civilian courts, Britain has been forced to handle individuals it regards as terrorist threats through its normal courts, a process that has led to recurrent rulings against the suspects' deportation.
Madison Street, Muncie, Indiana, USA — Photograph David Levene The Lynds were keen to concentrate on issues of class, and sought out a town with a "homogenous, native-born population" in order to avoid "being forced to handle two major variables, racial change and cultural change".
There were four warrants out for Anderson's arrest, two intervention orders imposed on him, and a charge of accessing child pornography, but again Batty said she was forced to handle a situation involving him on her own because no one else had stopped him.
