in a dilemma

“Regime survival is #1,” Karim Sadjadpour, a Middle East analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said on X. “Khamenei is now in a dilemma of his own making. By not responding strongly, he keeps losing face. By responding too strongly, he could lose his head.”

But Vance finds himself in a dilemma: Are these people simply lazy?

He studies the international game featuring skilled and versatile players, looking for ideas to incorporate and “put defenses in a dilemma.”

Mr. Ashar said the case had put the hospital’s staff members in a dilemma: They didn’t want to expose a healthy bird to the sick and injured, but they also couldn’t set it free because “it was such a high-profile case and the charge was so serious.”

Garvey is caught in a dilemma, trying to appease the Trump-loving Republican base without alienating the far greater number of Californians who loathe the ex-president.