Sentences with phrase «put in a difficult position»

The final months of mat leave or pat leave are often spent in a frenzy trying to secure a daycare spot, and families are put in the difficult position of choosing any daycare that will take them — licensed or not — at a time that's already pretty emotional for some parents as they transition back to work.

It simply puts you in a difficult position from the start.

Liverpool's failed bid for the striker put them in a difficult position towards the end of the transfer window.

The problem here is that we put ourselves in a difficult position from our own mistakes.

Lazio's solicitor Gian Michele Gentile added that this is a «clear breach of contract» and that legal action was inevitable with the club put in a difficult position both on and off the pitch.

Yet again Arsenal put themselves in a difficult position and yet again they were lucky to escape from another embarrassing defeat yesterday against Preston North End.

Wenger has put us in a difficult position to challenge for the League?

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper replied: «The home secretary will recognise that parliament has been put in a difficult position by this emergency legislation this week.

The Labour leader has been put in a difficult position over the course of the campaign.

Thanks to that role, the congressman's national profile has risen significantly over the past year, though that has — at times — put him in a difficult position.

«This information about Mark Harper's employee does put him in a difficult position,» Mr Hanson said.

Academia traditionally values individual accomplishment and has not yet developed adequate metrics to evaluate teamwork, which can put me in a difficult position when I am being compared to other PIs at my career stage who work in a more traditional independent model.

In 2004, he was chief scientist — an advisory role to the administrator — and he was put in the difficult position of having to defend a decision to cancel Hubble's final servicing mission (which ended up going ahead in 2009).

This puts me in a difficult position: Do I keep pestering the PO and his staff day after day, until I finally make contact, with the risk that he'll get angry and thus not be very helpful?

Have you felt disrespected when a man has just assumed escalating to the next level is fine, putting you in the difficult position of stopping the action?

So, if you are part of this demographic, recently single, recovering from whatever shock put you in this difficult position and looking for love, romance or friendship, then this is the perfect place for you.

This puts her in a difficult position when Bradlee wants to pursue the Pentagon Papers story; quite aside from the possibility that publication would amount to treason, or that the information could endanger U.S. lives overseas, she has no desire to harass her friends.

Meanwhile her beloved, beautiful cousin has little to offer in terms of a dowry, putting her in a difficult position as well.

Still, the president spent mounds of political capital pushing policies designed to pressure schools to help minority youth, and «it puts him in a difficult position to be signing onto something that clearly empowers states to be less aggressive in addressing inequity,» said Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary Arne Duncan.

As the number of eBook devices and retailers increases, publishers and authors are put in the difficult position of meeting a multitude of ever - changing and sometimes opposing requirements.

Your professors put you in a difficult position by asking you to study harder, become part of more extracurricular activities, and write a huge number of paper that's impossible to complete within the given timeframe.

Again, this puts you in a difficult position to defend should one or more of your credit card banks file a legal claim against you.

Even with a release signed to my staff, I could not see putting them in that difficult position.

The challenges they face with waning profits and sales have put them in a difficult position.

Asked to comment, I told a reporter that the chief justice had been put in a difficult position.

Because while a short - term disability could be covered by a healthy emergency fund, an extended disability is much more likely to deplete your family's savings and put you in a difficult position unless you have some way of replacing your lost income.

This prohibition ensures that the real estate practitioner isn't put in the difficult position of trying to satisfy both parties and risking that one or both parties may walk away feeling they didn't receive the focused and thorough representation they expected.

A stigmatized property puts you in the difficult position of wondering what facts, if any, you must disclose to prospective buyers.

«That has put them in a difficult position of meeting their caps this year,» says William E. Hughes, a senior vice president with Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp..

Not exact matches

If the rumours are even partially true, he and his family abused their positions, but this puts his victorious pro-reform opponents in a difficult position.

The unwanted public spotlight puts BB&T in a difficult position, despite the millions of dollars it will get from Graham's businesses.

This puts businesses in a difficult position, as some may be unable to meet this increased consumer demand.

The conflict between cities and states puts Amazon in a difficult position.

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It's going to put Jerome Powell in a very difficult position especially if they keep the dollar down.

The move puts the Supreme Court in the difficult position of having to decide whether to take the highly politically charged case in the middle of the presidential election.

«If the EU and the UK come to a successful resolution, that could possibly put the US and Japan and some other entities in a difficult position because now you've got a joint position of two different strong financial centres united, and here is the best a way forward.»

«I believe Chrysler will be looking for some kind of a deal in the future, which puts a hypothetical Premier Hudak in a difficult position because he has come out so strongly against what he calls corporate welfare.»

This will put evangelicals in the difficult position of having to explain...

I was also struck by the difficult positions their family and friends were put in.

He continues, saying: «Furthermore, [Patterson's] inarticulate comments about abuse have put the SBC in another difficult position.

These arguments put atheists in a difficult position.

Putin conceded in September during elections that the unpopular law may need to be «adjusted to not put people in a difficult position.»

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Despite Diego Costa's expected exit from Chelsea after his breakdown with his manager, it's still difficult to see Antonio Conte putting his faith in the younger players at the club immediately, with Tammy Abraham arguably in the same position.

We started the group with a difficult away game at PSG and we got a valuable point, which puts us in a real good position if we play our cards right.

Wenger is putting arsenal fans in a difficult position.

He said, «Tottenham put us in [a difficult] position by putting us under pressure, and we were reluctant to come out from the back and play a little bit because we were 1 - 0 up.

While Sky Blue might feel like it got the better of this trade in terms of talent, it puts the team in a difficult salary cap position.

All he wants to do is put the club in a precarious position when he is leaving and makes the job very difficult for whoever the manager is that will replace him.