The Straits of America

Turkey s Quagmire

Tom was put on the spot.

You know that expression is a puzzling one for a naturalist.

Tom was suddenly put on the spot.

I won't put you on the spot.

Europe's persistent reluctance puts the Turks in a quandary.

Were they stranded in Germany?

To be sure, China s situation is more extreme than Japan s.

George W. Bush s disastrous war in Iraq has put Europe in a bind.

The original July 17 election date had put Fatah in a difficult position.

Of course, there is a chance that the world will recognize its quandary at Rio.

Russia s ability to negotiate its current predicament hinges on its powerful president, Vladimir Putin.

In countries like the US, where the middle class has reaped few of the benefits of globalization in the last quarter century, trade policy will be under severe pressure to provide some redress.

Just after I finished school, my older brother Hal ran into some financial difficulties.

President elect Barack Obama made the plight of the middle class a central plank of his successful campaign.

If it were not part of the euro system, Greece might not have gotten into its current predicament and, even if it had gotten into its current predicament, it could have avoided the need to default.

Though it is possible to sympathize with the Ghanaians, who were placed in a very awkward position, the indictment intensified demands for Taylor s removal.

Mexico s current quandary is the flu, but it faces more important challenges than a mutating microbe.

His presence is an embarrassment to NATO, but an even greater disgrace for Russia.

Fujioka Yoshihide, a Communist member of the Nagano prefectural assembly got into hot water for criticizing Abe's appearance on Twitter.

It is not entirely far fetched to assume that an Obama effect is having an impact on Israel s current international predicament.

At the same time, the pressure to articulate a vision can get a leader into difficulty.

One post pointed out that Costa Rica supporting Colombia against Nicaragua in the ruling about the San Andrés Archipielago, out of fear of the expansionism that this could trigger, would set a precedent for other territorial disputes. In the case of the San Juan River, an ICJ decision could favor Costa Rica, forcing the future administration into a difficult position

By promising in last summer s election campaign to expel America s bases on Okinawa, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama put himself in a bind.

There were suggestions from both sides that the other had posted the video either to embarrass Rudd or to humanise him.

His predicament illustrates the common dictum in the politics of developing countries where rural electorates elect governments but urban elites get to throw them out.

The drubbing that many governments suffered in the recent elections to the European Union Parliament places them in a difficult position as they maneuver ahead of this week's EU Summit.

In fact, foreign investment in emerging markets already started to subside after 1995, then plummeted with the Asian crisis of 1997, and has remained low ever since even as the IMF orchestrated many of the bailouts that allegedly distorted investor behavior in the first place!

Overtones of the 1930 s are amplified, clearly exposing the Union s predicament, because of an odd coincidence the Czech Republic now holds the EU s rotating presidency.

Naturally, you speak and write your own language faster and more eloquently than any other, and this can place scientists whose English is poor at a severe disadvantage.

America s financial difficulties and foreign entanglements, together with China s economic ascent, led many last year to envisage the emergence of a sort of global condominium between the two countries.

This has confronted the Europeans with a quandary if they do not agree to give up some seats on the IMF board, some emerging countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, and perhaps even India, would lose theirs.

This has confronted the Europeans with a quandary if they do not agree to give up some seats on the IMF board, some emerging countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, and perhaps even India, would lose theirs.

It must move now to address the problem s sources through multi year programs that range from educational restructuring and worker retraining to productivity enhancement and housing sector reform. And it must do so while better protecting the long term unemployed, many of whom bear little responsibility for their current, once unthinkable, and unfortunately long lasting predicament.

This has put the EU in its usual quandary everybody recognizes that there is a problem, but a solution requires unanimity, which cannot be achieved, because each country defends only its own interests.

And it must do so while better protecting the long term unemployed, many of whom bear little responsibility for their current, once unthinkable, and unfortunately long lasting predicament.

3. Expresses its concern that, since the departure of the Director in July 2001, and notwithstanding the severe predicament of the Institute, a new Director has not yet been appointed

Moreover, both China and South Korea strongly oppose such a scenario, while the United States is poorly positioned to implement it, given its involvement in Iraq.

It is a huge embarrassment for US President Barack Obama that he proposed admittedly under pressure from the Republican opposition to expand offshore oil drilling greatly just before the BP catastrophe struck.