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.

Today, close to 15,000 people call South Park home, which creates a bit of a predicament for the city.