Sentences with phrase «a hard place»

Ticking off every demand the New Democrats put on their long list — from giving motorists a break on their insurance to delaying and eliminating some corporate tax breaks — the Liberals have thrown down the gauntlet and put the party that holds the balance of power between a rock and a hard place.

And if there isn't a willingness to trim that capital gains burden, it seems like these 15 - to -20-percent of shareholders caught between a rock and a hard place are destined to continue to feel the squeeze.

He was caught between a rock and a hard place.

The Red Planet is «a hard place to get to,» Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and a former commander of the International Space Station, told CNBC at a press conference recently.

The market can be a hard place, capable of driving the best of us to our knees in a New York minute.

That it was caught between a rock and a hard place.

«He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.»

Going into the new year, the casual - dining segment is caught between a rock and a hard place.

And they don't get to just shrug their shoulders and make excuses about being caught between a rock and a hard place.

«McKinsey is a values - driven place, and those are the hardest places to change.»

«But it's a hard place to live.

«We're between a rock and a hard place,» said Grace Martinez, community organizer for the Alliance for Californians for Community Empower, one of the groups behind the proposal.

During that time we were also interested in doing the documentary that will debut this fall, Rock and a Hard Place.

Sesno tells Fortune that «the media are between a rock and a hard place on this» due to the fact that Trump is a fascinating figure who has a lead in the polls that demands the public's attention.

President Trump is just halfway into his first 100 days in office, and his economic advisers seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place on the issue of imports.

Rock and a Hard Place is a quality project, one we were working on with 44 Blue Productions, and one Dwayne was extremely invested in and was willing to commit to appearing on in front of the camera.

Currently, the FCC is caught between a rock and a hard place.

They are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

For chaebols then, it's likely a case of being caught between a rock and a hard place: The companies have to deal with the fallout from the recent scandal, as well as follow through with the promises they had made in the lead up to the Olympics.

While Facebook has so far consistently refused to implement tools that block fake news (and some, including technology analyst Ben Thompson of Stratechery, argue that it should not), Twitter is now stuck between a rock and a hard place, trying to determine what is permissible speech and what is not.

So the government is stuck between the rock of boosting its spending for 11MP goals and the hard place of keeping its budget deficit under control amid declining oil revenue.

Facebook is thus stuck between a rock and a hard place: it has to continually think of new ways to make money, yet somehow prevent more users from revolting.

To avoid getting stuck between a rock and a hard place, students need to go into their college and program selections with their eyes wide open.

US central banker Ben Bernanke is caught between a rock and a hard place.

Between a rock and a hard place it appears.

iShares S&P 100 (Ticker: OEF) US central banker Ben Bernanke is caught between a rock and a hard place.

But Canada is also caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the Trump administration's volatility.

Senator Kamala Harris (D - CA) spent her portion of today's epic - length questioning of Mark Zuckerberg getting the CEO to squeeze himself deeper and deeper between a rock and a hard place.

Maybe they're between a rock and a hard place.

This is not a Fed that's «signaling prospects for a rate cut later this year» as Wall Street evidently concluded, but rather a Fed that's caught between a rock and a hard place, and knows it.

«He doesn't want to leave any question about the independence of the Governor of the Bank of Canada, but we have a situation under the Conservative government that has allowed record household debt... and the bank is really caught between a rock and a hard place, because these high debt levels create pressure for higher interest rates, but inflation is very low.

I think they're actually between a rock and a hard place and at some point they're going to have to implement replay protection and then it's going to be clear that it's a contentious hard floor and we're actually talking about an alt coin rather than an upgrade to bitcoin.

Tuur: [00:35:40] And I think there might be a bit between a rock and a hard place to people who are you know trying to push 2x through because even though they say they have support of over 90 percent of the Bitcoin miners which is remains to be seen it's really a matter of whether the 2x token or chain is going to be supported by the exchanges and if so how it's going to be named.

The Rock in a Hard Place: Atlantic Canada and the UI Trap, The Social Policy Challenge 9, by Doug May and Alton Hollett.

«Now,» Bernanke said, «I face an impossible task, since my Fed is between a rock and a hard place in trying to keep the economy going.»

Renting can often feel like a vicious cycle but committing to a mortgage you can't afford can just as easily put you between a rock and a hard place.

Thus, I would argue that the current «crisis» in Quebec over tuition fees has been largely created by successive federal governments that have defunded Canadian universities, indeed putting provincial governments «between a rock and a hard place.»

Recently, MCD has been stuck between a rock and a hard place as sales dwindled.

And it's putting our members between the proverbial rock and a hard place, as reduced staff and resources make it impossible to cope.

Business in Vancouver September 4 - 10, 2007; issue 932 Sudden exits thin mining's CEO ranks Executive talent becoming most difficult resource to find for B.C. miners Krisendra Bisetty A sudden exodus of top - level management is leaving an increasing number of Vancouver exploration and mining companies wedged between a rock and a hard place.

«The Vatican is an extraordinarily hard place to get access to, but we explained we're not going to try to tell people what to think,» says Discovery president and GM Clark Bunting.

When you're between God and a hard place — turning toward His face changes the place.

Indonesia is No. 43 on Open Doors» list of the 50 hardest places to be a Christian, and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has placed it on the second tier of countries of particular concern since 2003.

... when you're between God and a hard place, it's God's presence that transforms every hard place.

And we have all watched you boldly take the way of abundance — no matter how it seemed like it didn't matter — because God makes meaning out of messes, because He is the God who can make all our brokenness into abundance, because, you and I say this back to each other over and over again: The Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the broken edges of everything with redeeming, abundant grace.»

Like that of the Reverend John Ames in Gilead, my friend's life has been shaped by a long faithfulness that prepared her to be open to the work of grace in one of the hardest places imaginable.

A hard place to be.

It's something that churches of all denominations have been investing in, but Mez McConnell, senior pastor of Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, Scotland and author of Church in Hard Places (Crossway Books, 2016) has questions about the results of such ministries.

Finding that choosing to lead myself under into things is hard but good... that Jesus is there in the hard places where love is needed.

-- And now religious folk are stuck between a rock and a hard place: Either concede that you have been wrong all along (God did not do it), or insist on your flawed version of the truth, even in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary.