Sentences with phrase «a rock and 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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

-- 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.

A rock and a hard place scenario?

If you are «caught in between a rock and a hard place / spot», doesn't literally mean you are lodged between a rock and another hard object, thereby being trapped and not able to escape.

Mark Hatfield, in his book Between a Rock and a Hard Place, similarly distinguishes between love and justice.

There is no «rock and a hard place» set of choices here for Christians, nor is there any in Nigeria and Uganda on the front of basic human rights that Christians themselves helped define and defend: We are called to speak the truth in love, to oppose what is wrong, and to do so whether or not it is culturally comfortable or politically secure.

Radner ignores the plain truth that when you are between a rock and a hard place, your choices are few: An African shepherd may have the choice only of which hill to die on.

Yet, if the only alternative is to turn pre-schoolers over to the same people who run the public schools, we seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place.

What is the new thing God is wanting to do here in this space between the rock and the hard place?

Pat's family, in this scheme, is between a rock and a hard place, deprived of their language and left only with another white one, English; deprived of their local habitation and name.

The abortion debate often feels like being between a rock and a hard place, so political statements like «abortion should be safe, legal and rare,» offer us the slight comfort of a perceived middle ground.

So he is caught between a rock and a hard place: he can not succeed without fostering in humans that boundless appetite for enchantment that has always made them susceptible to the unscrambled signals of transcendence.

There is also another equivalent English seafaring phrase, «Between a rock and a hard place».

Rocks and hard places; devils and deep blue sees: aren't we always caught in between?

After the twins were born I wasn't making enough milk at first, and I felt trapped between a rock and a hard place no matter what I did.

The farmers find themselves between a rock and a hard place because they have to continue milking but can not dump the surplus milk because of environmental regulations.

Grocery retailer and wholesaler Metcash seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place — or more accurately, between the discounters and the supermarket majors.

«The cattle producers are caught between a rock and a hard place,» Sweeney said.