in a bind

For Mark Bauerlein, retired from Emory University, academics are caught in a bind that only Trump can break: “bow down to diversity or risk your academic career.”

By that time, the agency said consumers were in a bind because they had already paid a nonrefundable application fee of up to $55.

Melnick said the injunctions leave schools and campuses in a bind.

“It puts career diplomats in a bind to be asked to go on the record commenting on how they would support policies that are favored by the current administration but may not be by the next,” Barbara Stephenson, a former Panama ambassador, told the Washington Post.

Home insurance companies have put Californians in a bind by refusing to sell new policies or renew many customers, leaving them with few coverage options.