(n.) A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
(n.) See Category.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can’t stay here anymore.” When his mother calls, he says, he refuses to talk to her, blaming her in part for his predicament.
(2) I had told Chris that I would need an electric hook-up and told him about my predicament.
(3) As one example, certain aspects of Gawain's situation seem oddly redolent of a more contemporary predicament, namely our complex and delicate relationship with the natural world.
(4) How are medical roles adapted to the situation of medical pluralism and the predicaments that flow from such a situation.
(5) High tension and high stakes coursed through this meeting of top four chasers versus relegation facers and it was to QPR’s credit that they attacked their predicament – and Arsenal – head on.
(6) Clinical research and opinion in this area have elicited both clinical euphoria and polarization vis-a-vis newer possibilities for resolving the predicaments of partial or complete edentulism.
(7) who was thinking about voting yes, and went on to reduce her political predicament to her meagre wage packet.
(8) Craving boldness is too often a euphemism for wishing Labour's predicament were something other than what it is; that there was a way to promise immediate improvement in everyone's lives without giving them money.
(9) When there was no accordance, we noticed a correlation between pressure gradient and surgical success in 3 cases and predicaments based on PRA and success in 2 cases.
(10) But the predicament is partly engendered by prosperity, too.
(11) The Canadian researchers were more sympathetic to the IGDA’s predicament than Kazemi or the workers spoken to for this feature.
(12) The former chairman blamed "mismanagement" for the retailer's dire predicament, and is interested in acquiring some of its stores to add to his DW Sports Fitness chain.
(13) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
(14) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
(15) Caroline Lucas MEP is leader of the British Green party President Mohamed Nasheed Despite our predicament, I'm optimistic The Maldives doesn't look like the front line in a battle.
(16) If [policing is] the only type of process that they want to put in place to address these issues, then we will have a major concern with it, because that will not … address the issues and we will be in the same predicament a month from now or a year from now,” Dandan said.
(17) But, despite the sympathy felt by many in Europe for Scotland’s predicament, Sturgeon’s hopes of ensuring the country remains in the bloc look likely to be crushed.
(18) We have to try and find a way to help the audience sympathise with his predicament."
(19) So the first problem was that the Greek cuts led to a worsening of the Greek predicament: the economy kept contracting, and unemployment hit a record high of 16.2%.
(20) Until we are mathematically gone, I will believe.” Tottenham’s Son Heung-min grabs late winner after Watford red card Read more He also said he will do his utmost to entice reinforcements during the January transfer window, but admits that the club’s predicament complicates recruitment.
Quandary
Definition:
(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
(2) On occasions, they result in some diagnostic and therapeutic quandaries.
(3) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
(4) This, if anything, demonstrates the quandary and complexity of financial regulation.
(5) These two distinct paradigms lead to divergent treatment goals, which leaves the clinician in a quandary about how best to treat an individual who experiences a drinking problem.
(6) The quandary is a familiar one to every football fan who has watched his or her team score a goal while surrounded by rival supporters.
(7) "Egypt is in a quandary – it doesn't want to punish Gaza by closing the tunnels, but it needs to secure Sinai," said one western diplomat.
(8) The quandary of how to determine the value of human life and health is an essential problem but is certainly not straight forward.
(9) Some of the theoretical quandaries associated with the concept are briefly reviewed.
(10) Specific quandaries arise with involuntary hospitalization and treatment, and with evaluating patients for the courts.
(11) Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary.
(12) This leaves Scotland's policymakers in something of a quandary: how can you tackle a problem when you don't know what is causing it?
(13) Practical solutions to the quandaries posed by the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy are explicated, with supporting methodological examples for nursing research studies.
(14) Such thirtysomething quandaries, of course, are found in greater-than-average concentration in Hollywood, where a good deal of the writers, directors and executives fall into this group; this is one reason why so many of these films have been produced.
(15) "The whole of the radio industry is in a bit of a quandary.
(16) This fixture has, in the Wenger era, been all about Arsenal's possession of the perfect answer to every quandary.
(17) One of the biggest quandaries among those who study radicalisation is identifying the point at which individuals move from "extremism" to "violent extremism".
(18) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(19) And therein lies a quandary: how can a casual who must only say yes ever enter into a real and honest dialogue with the permanent staff who employ them?
(20) Underlying it all, there's not only rightful compassion for victims, but also perhaps relief that we don't have to face such quandaries.