predicament

Through the glass, the 68-year-old paediatrician told me what she thought of her predicament.

As Eco noted, it's a central paradox of fascism: "No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament."

"I really had to sit down with myself and ask, if my daughter came to me with the same predicament, what would be my response to her?"

One last statistic, the most damaging of all, suggests the depth of the Democrats’ predicament.

There are, of course, many answers to that, but the one I’ve been thinking about the most is what the criminal justice system’s role is in our current predicament.