Sentences with phrase «in a quandary on»

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Rather, its intention is focused on certain moral quandaries or on those who find themselves in troubling situations.

I was in just such a quandary as Vinny started out this blog about... I found many interesting things on the internet - but one of them was a «conversation» community which I partook of called THE OOZE.

Of the recurring quandaries in Christian theology — suffering, sin, ignorance and death — suffering, historical suffering, appears to have become the chief concern of Protestant theology in the latter 20th century, replacing the «Classical Protestant accent on sin and God's answering word of forgiveness.

I covered this quandary extensively in my explainer on Irving's initial trade request.

He was in a predicament, a quandary, he was on the horns of a dilemma, between the devil and the deep blue sea.

We'd like to know exactly what as the Latics are in a bit of a quandary at the present and another defeat on Saturday, which would be their third on the bounce, could send the club to the basement of the Premier League.

In either case, the unpaid meal charge quandary is an emotional one for school nutrition professionals — they know the impact a meal (or lack of a meal) can have on a student's ability to focus in school, and they never want children to go hungrIn either case, the unpaid meal charge quandary is an emotional one for school nutrition professionals — they know the impact a meal (or lack of a meal) can have on a student's ability to focus in school, and they never want children to go hungrin school, and they never want children to go hungry.

When your child insists on wearing his spaceman outfit to daycare for the third day in a row, you may find yourself in a quandary.

What not to worry about: Your toddler's pretend play might cause a few very real quandaries: What do you do when she insists on wearing a nightie to preschool (for the third day in a row) because it's her magical queen's gown?

Approaching the podium at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Monday night presented both a quandary and an opportunity for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

This raises the «West Lothian question», a quandary first posited in 1977 by Tam Dalyell, who asked why he, as MP for the Scottish seat of West Lothian, should vote on matters concerning English constituents but not his own.

The bill, which delays the fee taking effect for a year, presented a quandary for the governor: Environmental groups wanted the fee in order to cut down on plastic waste; lawmakers from both parties viewed the fee as a regressive tax.

On the same day the Trump Organization announced its appointment of two ethics monitors to advise on potential conflicts of interest, it faced a new ethical quandary: Is it right to double the price of the initiation fee at Mar - a-Lago, the Trump family's private club in Florida, or would that be seen as cashing in on the president's arrival in the White HousOn the same day the Trump Organization announced its appointment of two ethics monitors to advise on potential conflicts of interest, it faced a new ethical quandary: Is it right to double the price of the initiation fee at Mar - a-Lago, the Trump family's private club in Florida, or would that be seen as cashing in on the president's arrival in the White Houson potential conflicts of interest, it faced a new ethical quandary: Is it right to double the price of the initiation fee at Mar - a-Lago, the Trump family's private club in Florida, or would that be seen as cashing in on the president's arrival in the White Houson the president's arrival in the White House?

Teachout decided to run in a Democratic primary, and her better - than - expected showing has prompted something of a quandary for the 181,000 people who voted for her: Do they sit home on Election Day, swallow hard and vote for Cuomo (perhaps on the W.F.P. line), or cross over for someone like Hawkins, who has been actively pitching them?

«That's the quandary faced by the entire health care team — for the surgeon, whether to take the lymph nodes out; for the endocrinologist, whether to give radioactive iodine, in part based on the information obtained about lymph nodes during surgery; and for the patient, whether the information and treatment will result in better survival.»

Seriously, this practice puts me in a quandary, because on one hand, it supports the unbelievable laziness of some people who are looking to achieve a strong visual effect, with almost zero training.

In order to minimize this effect, I could take care not to drive myself too hard on the first one or two rounds, but this would then decrease the effectiveness of the high - rep work — a true quandary.

A closer look at the «dieting» phenomenon and its journey may help shed some light on this quandary we find ourselves in.

Send over your toughest style quandaries in the comment section below and I'm on it.

And, without doubt, viewers will feel this film's big ideas piling on top of each other, in the heavy events that thrust racial quandaries front and center, and in the zippy - academia dialogue that implies Dawson's Creek was also an inspiration.

This ethical quandary sits at the center of Fracture, a convoluted courtroom drama which unfortunately relies on ridiculous interpretations of the law which fly in the face of fundamental notion about jurisprudence.

That left me with a real quandary that I was not completely able to confront in my review: how do you rate a film that is compelling on a second viewing but I found terribly hard to connect with the first time through?

When a plot finally emerges, it's all about the quandaries of privileging principle (and principal) or empiricism, duty or personal preference, questions that have been implicit all along, even in kids» protests that they're always being picked on or favored.

In spite of its fanciful editing and Jonny Greenwood's sleazy score, You Were Never Really Here is rather minimalist, offering slivers of story and characterization, dwelling on inanimate objects while eschewing human complexities, never pondering the moral quandaries of Joe's vocation or methods.

In his latest movie, Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick asks us to join him, for the third time in a row, on a journey through the meandering thoughts of people lost in life, confessing their innermost moral quandaries to the cosmos as they stumble and crawl across god's green earth and bask in heavenly sunlighIn his latest movie, Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick asks us to join him, for the third time in a row, on a journey through the meandering thoughts of people lost in life, confessing their innermost moral quandaries to the cosmos as they stumble and crawl across god's green earth and bask in heavenly sunlighin a row, on a journey through the meandering thoughts of people lost in life, confessing their innermost moral quandaries to the cosmos as they stumble and crawl across god's green earth and bask in heavenly sunlighin life, confessing their innermost moral quandaries to the cosmos as they stumble and crawl across god's green earth and bask in heavenly sunlighin heavenly sunlight.

And without a clear scientific consensus on the subject, they're in a quandary.

The developments have left the nation's two largest teachers unions in a quandary: how to alter the perception that they are obstacles to change while holding on to principles such as tenure that their members demand.

In his fourth novel, Hari Kunzru confronts head - on the quandaries of modern life while walking a fine line between irony and authentic emotion, between seriousness and lightheartedness, without missing a step.

In writing a book about the development of the atomic bomb, Sheinkin takes on some of the biggest moral quandaries of our time.

Today, Trieste is a charming Italian city bordering Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia) on the Adriatic Sea, home to a wide mix of cultures (map of Trieste), but in 1954 it was at the center of a Cold War quandary - what to do with this little city - state caught in the power struggle between East and West?

-- David Grimm, an editor at Science magazine and author of «Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs»: When my wife and I first snapped a harness on our cat Jasper in 2005, we didn't quite realize the ethical quandary we were getting ourselves into.

Had we stayed any longer we would have found ourselves in something of a quandary: we should have moved on and seen somewhere else (the cities of Vigo and La Coruña are close enough to warrant a visit), but dragging oneself away from one's table, with an endless supply of beer and tapas, overlooking the handsome, glittering city is not an easy thing to do.

Image courtesy: MGM Resorts Following up on the bachelor party at the Mandalay Bay Media Suite, I was in a quandary.

Since the fishermen traditionally set their traps well before the opening of the season to draw them on the first day, the first harvest is by far the largest.The fishermen were therefore in a quandary: without freezing facilities, their products would spoil if kept until the 17th, incurring huge losses.

But in reality, the shift has created a quandary when it comes to rewards: Banks make less money on transactions with debit cards than with credit cards, so they have less to spend on debit card rewards.

So the quandary was, do we rush review a game we've played for a few hours - but many, many more in the earlier Alpha and Beta versions - on the expectation of things being as good as, if not better, than the Beta as the full version progresses?

While many titles push ethical quandaries on players, few put us in the position of potentially executing an innocent and important ally.

The artworks in «Eighteen Years of Painting People» on view at QF Gallery contain another layer: They represent Weber's personal search for the keys to lock the quandaries of personal relationships complicated by conflicting desires.

My own quandary had seeded a broader interest in contemporary artists» evolving studio needs and expectations (I wrote about the issue in «Lost in Space: Art Post-Studio» in the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail), and Simon was on the same wavelength.

Nothing exists is a philosophical quandary, a statement comprised of absolute polarities, in which it's meaning is inherently dependent on one's perception.

But we believe that the reason we are in this bizarre and terrifying quandary in the first place is to a very large extent the fault of journalists refusing to make judgments on what is true and what is false.

But COP23 largely ends in a quandary, with the developed and developing nations in an argument as old as the Kyoto Protocol, as they continue to squabble like shipwrecked passengers in a sinking lifeboat over who should bail and how much — even as the little boat rapidly takes on water.

Robinson + Cole insurance litigation lawyer Jessica A. R. Hamilton wrote the article «State v. Santiago: Connecticut Highlights Quandaries of Death Penalty Repeals,» published on March 4, 2016, in the Winter 2016 issue of Appellate Practice, the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation.

His general approach left monitoring officers and other local authority lawyers in a quandary and teetering on a turbulent tightrope.

But Michael P. Downey, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson in St. Louis who focuses his practice on ethics (and is an author of the blog The Ethical Quandary), urges caution when participating in online social networking sites.

This creates a bit of a quandary, of course: How to make yourself more visible to recruiters on LinkedIn while keeping your availability a secret (Hint: it's similar to the notion of «hiding in plain site».

Lifting Ontario's ban on contingency fees in family law cases would likely present both practical and ethical quandaries, Toronto family lawyer Katherine Robinson says in Law Times.

The child doesn't know how to respond to the conflict between the words and the body language and, because the child is dependent on the mother for basic needs, he or she is in a quandary.