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I feel that it is sad when anyone dies and it has to be horrible for their families, but these people put themselves in that predictament when they even "try" heroin and get themselves addicted.
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I wonder how many people are feeling sorry for OBama and the predictament that Wright has put him in and will jump in to endorse him.
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Olympians are not made over night, and years without a vision for amateur sports under successive Liberal and Conservative leaders has led us to out current predictament... sniff
It's Stephen Harper's Fault That Canada Has No Olympic Medals! 2008
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POINT TWO: Write, defend, encourage, those who seem to recognize the predictament we are in and add your/our two cents worth.
Time to Take Action; Depending on Congress is Not Enough 2007
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Rather, he simply wanted to get out of the current predictament.
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If Landes lost part of Augusta to Saxman and gained eastern H-burg, he would find a similar predictament.
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John H. insistance that the matter is settled shows a lack of understanding for his predictament through not recognising the nature of historical study.
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Liberty and responsibility are concepts at the core of Buchanan's reflections on the human predictament and thus in the proper domain of economic and political analysis.
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Liberty and responsibility are concepts at the core of Buchanan's reflections on the human predictament and thus in the proper domain of economic and political analysis.
Man Wants Liberty to Become the Man He Wants to Become - The Austrian Economists 2005
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About a quarter of Burmese live in abject poverty, he said and blamed sanctions for their predictament.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Damien McElroy 2012
tcanny commented on the word predictament
The foretelling of a planned action that will no doubt get you into a tough spot.
September 30, 2009
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word predictament
Predictament, a portmanteau of predict and predicament.
December 13, 2024