Sentences with phrase «rock and a hard place as»

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

Rics spokesman Jeremy Leaf said: «The housing minister needs to understand that rolling Hips out to one and two bed properties could find first - time - buyers caught between a rock and a hard place as accessibility to the market would go off the scale.

Cuomo finds himself between the proverbial rock and a hard place as he attempts to formulate regulations for controversial hydrofracking in the natural - gas - rich Southern Tier section of the state.

Teacher leaders are often right in the middle — at the crux of important conversations about teaching and learning that can feel like they are between a rock and a hard place as they talk with colleagues and friends about altering long - standing practices and challenge established beliefs.

FHA is between a rock and a hard place as it struggles to recoup losses that have depleted the reserve fund used for paying mortgage insurance claims on defaulted FHA loans.

Both factions, Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod, find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place as the world around them slowly dies.

The IPCC and the scientists currently working on the AR5 paper is now finding itself between a rock and a hard place as far as climate science is concerned and the rational world is watching.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Our country is a castle of hard rock Made with love and care by God Who has placed us, the Ladins, As guardians between the Germans and the Italians; Yes, we are Ladin, and remain Ladin!

The situation was as partisan as the recent US shutdown has been and Kerr was between a rock and hard place of uncodified law («conventions») of which the main criticism against Kerr was the lack of honest prior warning given to Whitlam.

Troy, who has served on the Orangetown Town Board for 13 years as its senior member, said this has put his town «between a rock and a hard place» this year.

Comey says he had joked about the Clinton email probe that «nobody gets out alive,» but as an additional 100,000 emails were found in October 2016 on a laptop belonging to disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin, the then - FBI chief said he found himself truly between a rock and a hard place.

Complex organic molecules float above a surface that is as soft as sand in some places and as hard as rock in others.

Complex organic molecules float above a surface that is as soft as sand in some places and as hard as rock in...

In some parts of the Arctic, trees, buildings and roadways have started listing to one side, or even collapsing, as soil that was once hard as a rock has softened from the warming that's already taken place.

Matt is caught between a financial rock and hard place: either sell the beach house or take a job as a game show host.

As HuffPost's Joy Resmovits reported in November, because it lacked quality controls, the charter school bills put Democrats who favor school choice between a rock and a hard place.

As the only (to our knowledge) dedicated eReading company that works with local partners around the glob, they were caught between the rock of WH Smith and the hard place they delivered to their authors.

Investors are caught between a rock and a hard place, as both equity markets and fixed income markets are trading at all - time highs.

It covers 3 hectares of land in the heart of Kuta.Myriad tourists chose Kuta as holiday destination in Bali and pick Hard Rock Hotel Bali as a place to stay and to start compiling up their trip schedule, its strategic location absolutely impresses visitors to stay there.

While Baker is well known for his starring roles in video games such as The Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite, O'Brien has had roles on both TV and in games, featuring in Telltale's Guardian's of the Galaxy and Batman: The Enemy Within as well as Rock in a Hard Place.

While that analogy sometimes shocks people into reconsidering, an increasing number of clients appear to agree with the general foolhardiness of the proposition but are left with no alternative as they are squeezed between the rock of dwindling income and the hard place of a legal aid program available only to the completely impoverished.

As Silverglate points out, public servants such as Borenstein find themselves between an economic rock and a hard placAs Silverglate points out, public servants such as Borenstein find themselves between an economic rock and a hard placas Borenstein find themselves between an economic rock and a hard place.

«I'm inclined to think the big ISPs will continue to play ball because they are caught between a rock and a hard place — between their customers who they don't want to be seen as giving up customer information, and the demands of government and the police,» he says.