Sentences with phrase «invidious position»
The phrase "invidious position" means being in a difficult or unfair situation that may cause resentment or envy towards the person in that position. Full definition
I was in exactly the same invidious position when people kept asking me at the time when Ming [Sir Menzies Campbell] was leader.
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No doubt such cases would be rare, but where they did occur employers would be in a highly invidious position.
When a customer's requests for add - ons and changes puts a project manager in an invidious position, scope creep has crept in.
«This places care workers in the invidious position of having to choose between providing lonely and vulnerable clients with care visits that meet their individual needs and fulfilling their payment - by - results contract,» Ryan says.
Referring to reports that Lord Mandelson sidestepped a requirement for peers to disclose certain business clients after exploiting a loophole, he adds: «I believe that this policy may have put your Committee in an invidious position.
Mr Burnham said school staff would be placed in an «invidious position» when forced to choose which of their pupils should receive the additional financial support.
In response to MacKay - I agree with all the sentiments expressed - Corbyn is in an invidious position - facing two byelections in locations voting to leave.
From the third row back in the midst of the Tory party, he talked of the «land of limbo» he now lived in and the «invidious position» he now faced.
«It is a moral travesty of the Australian government to put healthcare workers in this invidious position simply to safeguard its own blushes and to further its inhumane policy initiatives.»
«This puts schools in the invidious position of never being able to achieve what is demanded of them.»
Practitioners will then be left in the invidious position of deciding whether to assist with the Art 8 elements pro bono or whether to refuse to deal with that part of the case — thereby jeopardising the proper presentation of their client's case.
If so, both employer and employee are in an invidious position.
This places application vendors in an invidious position.
According to Andrew Walker QC, imposing a duty on lawyers to respond to demands from the ICO for privileged information would place them in the invidious position of being unable to reassure their clients that they will be able to protect the confidentiality of information imparted to them.
Third, the CLP's position was irrational, because it placed teachers like D in an invidious position of choosing between potential harm to their child and the loss of statutory benefits (at para. 51).
If not, de-recognition processes could place NTRBs in the invidious position of having to find legal representation themselves in order to defend their existence as well as provide legal representation to their clients.