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    Use "dilemma" in a sentence

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    dilemma


    1. conversation turned to the medical dilemma recently posed and the


    2. But if you are in this age group then you would be in a bit of a dilemma: trying to catch-up on retirement planning at the same time paying/saving for your children's higher education


    3. The net result is that I end up with his arms round me … maybe this is the answer to my dilemma


    4. “Give the girl some breathing space, guys!” Sally laughed at Kate’s dilemma, thinking it fun


    5. Three days later Prime Minister Gordon came up with a solution to Duncan’s dilemma that would guarantee no one would mess with the device


    6. She listens to the silence outside – not the silence of a town, she decides eventually, but not the silence of the country either … what to call him … the dilemma plagues her


    7. What a dilemma you’re in


    8. Was that a question, or a statement? "What?” was all she could manage to say, Beth knew her better than any other person, she’d probably read her tears and knew of her dilemma even before she’d spoke


    9. This creates a dilemma for us,


    10. So the dilemma is that I have a

    11. What rendered the dilemma even more complicated, was the fact


    12. I appreciated his dilemma, probably, better that anyone else


    13. present dilemma, however, not much of thinking was required


    14. dilemma! After that I also couldn’t connect, and then I was busy


    15. Just this morning he had hoped for an answer to his dilemma with the two women in his life and a baby on its way – now this! He didn’t want to have it resolved like this


    16. He believes he can resolve the king’s dilemma


    17. Making its home in the material world, your mind demands the rationality and reason that set up the dilemma of the absurd


    18. The dilemma naturally leads to the inevitable question, “Who is right?” In truth, both views are valid and are non-contradictory


    19. In most cases, people who undergo past life regression want to understand if their present situation or dilemma in their current lifetime is caused by events that took place in the past i


    20. This was part of his dilemma, his allegiance to the federal government in Nuevo York and his growing attachment to Alleghenia

    21. An example of this dilemma would be to attempt collecting data that would prove unambiguously that the Earth had undergone major changes through a worldwide flood


    22. Another dilemma would be: Putting something like this together also would require pre-existent knowledge of various aspects long before they actually occurred


    23. No solution for her dilemma


    24. But in her dilemma she had misjudged the situation


    25. was doing and why he was doing it, and it was a dilemma for


    26. After an assortment of injuries to his legs and his stomach and having had both sides of his face opened and drained from fights in battle, we knew we had to face this dilemma


    27. There was no wind and there was no way out of this dilemma


    28. His own ethical dilemma was nothing compared to her pain, and he felt childish when he thought back to the marches he had attended


    29. Except a dilemma presented itself in his mind to make him question this decision


    30. Trouble was that Ray guessed his dilemma

    31. He was caught in a typical Irish dilemma brought on by his insatiable curiosity about anything devious and his habit of thinking things through


    32. As his dead wife had been fond of saying when they faced an apparently impossible dilemma, “Alex, there’s more than one way of skinning a cat


    33. The solution to this unfortunate dilemma requires (the) reestablishing of and ―enforcement‖ of Immigration Quotas designed to preserve existing racial and ethnic balances (for the time being) while allowing recent arrivals an opportunity to properly assimilate into their new environment


    34. But what if there was a connection? Was it possible that the answers he had sought for so many years could present themselves through the dilemma of this person in front of him? “Kate, that is not what I am trying to say, that is definitely not what I was thinking about


    35. The nourishment from the bountiful meal was making a difference, and William was concentrating more on resolving his dilemma


    36. For a fleeting moment, I thought I had found a solution to my dilemma, but I rejected it immediately out of fear that while I was asleep they would steal my documents, my weapon and my money


    37. My neighbor was properly concerned and interested in our own reaction to this dilemma as was her son when he initially raised the question


    38. How much longer is our nation expected to fill the coffers of rogue nations that routinely utilize its (oil) revenues to finance our destruction! One can only hope that once public concern supersedes its off-handed complacency by making its presence felt in Washington, that its (collective) impact will hopefully override the perennial lip service that oftentimes passes itself off as a genuine commitment to solving this dilemma


    39. One dilemma was easily solved by leaving the bottles open so that I didn’t have to try and turn the cap four times a day


    40. What she needed was a new and reliable method that could move Angel’s cocaine to the United States and, if she was going to work at answers to that dilemma, it seemed that the place to start would be Puerto Viejo

    41. “Michael,” he began, “Your case presents an interesting dilemma for me


    42. To solve their dilemma, he started the engine and drove out of the square, back to Camp 146


    43. “Yes, I think you are right, Michelle…but let me back up and explain the so-called prisoners’ dilemma


    44. their dilemma, conquered their fears, and in time, found the answers


    45. Elior solved her first dilemma by taking the last steps in run and throwing his arms around her and giving her a swing that made Municantir meow loudly in her hands where he so far had slept peacefully


    46. The Second Sector represents profit organizations that suffers an endless dilemma because State is its member or cunning partner that only removes resources through taxes or tributes


    47. It is in a dilemma because it always needs to be modernized with high technologies to be competitive with that it causes the unemployment and it removes the workers’ income, because these are its customers


    48. When I thought about writing the story of what the observer saw, I immediately considered the dilemma of the seven days


    49. I was upset by the news, of course, and the old feelings of sympathy for Adam‘s dilemma crept over me despite my best efforts to suppress them


    50. It was not my intention to lay out a long chronological list of Adam‘s court matters, but these events do, I think, offer some insight into the dilemma behind why the hell I would get involved again with my brother and his family problems, particularly, when the cost to me and my family would once again be enormous in both emotional and financial terms










































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    Synonyms for "dilemma"

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    "dilemma" definitions

    state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options