How To Use Quandary In A Sentence
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They would not face this quandary in a regular courtroom or military tribunal.
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I have a similar quandary.
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I suppose the modrn version of slapstick is "Funny" Home Videos, and I guess there's an element of this here (ooh! what's going to happen next?!) but, being an illustration, without the moral quandary of filming your four year old setting himself on fire with the intention of sending the tape off to Carlton Television.
I'm still alive
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Jenson bemoans the loss of moral demands of a ‘highly opinionated God’ and the anomalous quandary of having to catechize the baptized in a post-Christian world.
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The issue of a present for Mother left me in a quandary, however.
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•Camp quandary: The infield is in flux as 3B Josh Fields will be pushed by Viciedo, a 19-year-old from Cuba, and 2B Chris Getz by Lillibridge and Nix.
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Necessary as these changes are, they leave us in a quandary.
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Jones has found that we are currently in a quandary comparable to that of the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass: we have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.
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Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
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However, he said the family was now in a quandary.
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Such drastic tactics may be warranted, according to Horne, because the current situation is putting drug agencies in a quandary.
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I find myself in a quandary of sorts and wonder if you have any advice or insights you may be able to offer a young-ish, aspiring writer of fiction for the screen.
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But it has left many life assurers in a quandary, wondering whether to continue backing IFAs or enter into multi-tied agreements.
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This is a quandary that never traps veteran adventuress Dervla Murphy, in a new edition of her epic 1983 trek through the Peruvian Andes with her small daughter and a mule.
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But he questions whether wage indexation is in fact even feasible in the long run. indexing future retirement benefits to wages is analytically equivalent to indexing them to the overall returns experienced by the owners of capital ... the government faces a massive quandary if it tries to guarantee relative living standards via wage indexation while funding the program with less risky investments like short - or intermediate-term government bonds.
Social Security and Indexing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Whenever Britain is in a royal mess over some fiendishly tricky quandary, we beseech Queen Mary for her counsel.
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This apparent dilemma is a familiar quandary in traditional epistemology.
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When the Polish air force units were disbanded, he found himself in a quandary.
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I was in a quandary: should I just buy this hoping it was lemongrass or should I ask the man inside if it was lemongrass first?
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And, while Jerry slew it, knowing that the lust of killing, once started, would lead him to continue killing the silly birds, Agno left the laying-yard to hot-foot it through the mangrove swamp and present to Bashti an ecclesiastical quandary.
CHAPTER XVI
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Kate was in a quandary over whether to go or not.
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The jagged geometry of supersmooth Europa; the idiosyncratic surfaces of the other orbs floating serenely in space; the pristine interstellar vacuum; the inscrutable emptiness of intergalactic space, that immense, echoing, absolutely featureless void enveloping the spinning galaxies: it all serves as a perfect philosophical mirror image, reflecting back the quandary of the species, the limitations of human knowledge.
A Space in Time
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Even the secretary at the Leader of the Opposition office is in a quandary.
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The easiest way to solve that quandary is to bring fantasy baseball into the world of modern statistical analysis.
Change can set your leagues free
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It is clear Equitable Life's decision to call a halt to new business has left many policy holders in a quandary.
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I'm what you'd call Old Labour and I'll be in a quandary at the next election: how can I vote for a party that doesn't really exist anymore?
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How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler.
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A procedural approach is useful and sometimes necessary when a person is faced with a quandary or dilemma.
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The peasants are in a quandary: They want to kill the man, but no one is ready to take responsibility for the action.
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But the quandary remains: if inflection and intonation are a natural part of speaking, what are we to do with them when sacred texts are read?
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This intelligent, perceptive romantic drama deals with more than just the quandary of two lovers forced apart by the very commitment they made to being together.
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Alexander stood at the edge of the balcony for a moment, contemplating the quandary, intently observed by Constantine.
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I've been offered a better job but at a lower salary I'm in a quandary about what to do.
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And I think there was a real concern on the part of everyone - we were in a quandary, frankly, right from the very beginning.
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Europe†™ s offer of petrol places Bush in quandary
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He was in a quandary, and a lifelong friend of his suggested that he phone me.
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Part of West Africa's quandary is that although its population belts are horizontal, with habitation densities increasing as one travels south away from the Sahara and toward the tropical abundance of the Atlantic littoral, the borders erected by European colonialists are vertical, and therefore at cross-purposes with demography and topography.
The Coming Anarchy
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Indeed, the oft-repeated mot that ‘Israel has more curators than artists’ points to a serious quandary.
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Year after year, however, we'd always find ourselves in a quandary.
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I answer this quandary by suggesting that we exist under two different constitutions - one for peace and another for war; and whatever exercise of power that cannot be justified under one rubric can be under the other.
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Yet this is the fundamental quandary of democracy: although we recognize its pitfalls, there is no real alternative to public debate.
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Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
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Not for them the faltering quandary of which Peter Gabriel track to include, instead they've instigated a new session, pitched at all-comers, from peers and their kids, to students regular at its comfy home.
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I've been offered a better job but at a lower salary I'm in a quandary about what to do.
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The quandary bifurcates: one of its branches leads to known resources, the other to unknown ones to be discovered.
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I've had two job offers, and I'm in a real quandary about/over which one to accept.
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Hobbes found himself in something of a tactical quandary in his early formulations of this theory.
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Hapthorn's quandary is that the men of Olkney have been robbed of their wealth, looks and intelligence, possibly because of the presence of magic.
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The lady whom Burns called Clarinda put herself in a like quandary by beginning a song with this stanza -
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This intelligent, perceptive romantic drama deals with more than just the quandary of two lovers forced apart by the very commitment they made to being together.
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Jimmy Thomson was in a quandary last Wednesday night.
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Then all the studies started to pour in showing that replacing carbohydrate with fat gave better lipid profiles and better blood sugar profiles, which put the antifat brigade in a quandary.
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So its management is faced with a quandary: diversify its asset base or simply stick all its money in the bank and watch it grow.
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As a metaphor for the depersonalization of industry, the 1957 film Desk Set pitted humanity against automation as the central quandary of modern civilization.
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The DUP is shaping up with bullish electoral confidence in a unionist community snared in an apparently permanent quandary.
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The regions, too, face a quandary.
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The United States should encourage the Arab League to not only endorse the continuation of direct talks at this critical juncture, but also be more creative, take the initiative and change the dynamic of the negotiations regardless of how the settlement quandary is resolved.
Alon Ben-Meir: A Paradigm Shift
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Philosopher Hilde Hein has described a quandary museums face in identifying their chief function: as repositories of valuable objects, or instead, as places to produce interesting experiences.
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But he seems more puzzled than troubled by this quandary.
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I say two, because another managerial solution to this quandary is to work on the slightly simpler equation of four into three.
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I am in a quandary about the disposal of these items.
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If Larry Johnson's situation gets resolved, the quarterback quandary is successfully solved and the defense continues to improve, a fan would have reason for cautious optimism.
Change comes for K.C., but weapons still remain
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But they were in a quandary about how to blend their vastly different tastes.
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The depths of this understanding - which I had not at all expected - put me in a quandary.
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In a quandary he contacted me to see if I could help find someone who could help.
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I suppose my quandary is this: James is the one applying for the visa.
Australia: a quandary « Sven’s guide to…
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The quandary faced by the judges highlights some of the complexities of international justice when faced with such high-profile defendants.
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I was in a quandary about whether to go.
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Japan is enmeshed in a familiar quandary about how to provide military support without damaging its pacifist constitution.
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I was in a quandary about whether to go.
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But seeing her childhood sweetheart again stirs up old feelings, leaving the bride-to-be in a quandary.
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I being in such a position in the colony, and considering the fact that Madam Cavendish and Catherine were staunch loyalists, and would have sent all their tobacco to the bottom of the salt sea had the king so ordained, and regarded all disaffection from the royal will as a deadly sin against God and the Church, as well as the throne, and knowing the danger which Mary Cavendish ran, I was in a sore quandary.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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And then we have the quandary: is this fact worth reporting in the wake of the level of anger already there?
Don't blame newsweek
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The shop was born when its founders faced a quandary: What do you do when you have friends in scores of cities across the globe?
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Bob was helping a customer when I got to the store and I didn't want to interrupt him until he was finished, but at the same time I wanted to get to the bottom of the schedule quandary.
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By the simple expedient of removing dummy's ace of clubs, declarer avoided any such quandary.
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I'm in a real quandary: to sell or not to sell?
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His injury created a bit of a catching quandary since starter Brian Johnson battled knee problems in spring training.
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a moral quandary
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I was in a quandary about whether to go.
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When the Polish air force units were disbanded, he found himself in a quandary.
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He was in a quandary, and a lifelong friend of his suggested that he phone me.
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They gave him three or at best four years to live, leaving him in a quandary about the ethics of standing again for parliament.
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This intelligent, perceptive romantic drama deals with more than just the quandary of two lovers forced apart by the very commitment they made to being together.
Times, Sunday Times
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But seeing her childhood sweetheart again stirs up old feelings, leaving the bride-to-be in a quandary.
The Sun
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These boulders on a path near a York beauty spot have landed village leaders in a legal quandary following complaints from a disabled angler.
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The answer to your quandary is that you always have an “opportunity to respond” at this blog.
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I too would be in a quandary as to how to vote were we to have a referendum soon - just like many of the French interviewed about their voting intentions in the past few days.
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When the Polish air force units were disbanded, he found himself in a quandary.
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It renders its judgments through their actions, not through overlaid assumptions, and succinctly frames a moral quandary that exceeds the life of the story's subjects.
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