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The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again. – Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org	added by upthetotempole 1 year ago
We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves. – Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People can still spread the virus to someone like me, who’s immune suppressed. They don’t realize they can, when they take off their masks that puts me in a predicament where I have to be more extra careful now in public. – Mike Olsen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
(C)(P) IN THE COMING YEARS I PREDICT THAT MEN WILL FACE A MUCH GREATER PREDICAMENT FROM THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS SMARTER TO USE THEIR -IPHONES- AND TRACK THEIR EVERY MOVE OF INFIDELITY. MOST MEN ARE JUST CLEVER, BUT NOT WISE! – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by jahmantafari1 2 years ago
If you don't have a huge majority, don't demand stupid things. And I think that's what happened … The Squad … made unreasonable demands that jarred with the reality of the Democrat predicament in the Senate. It wasn't going to happen. they have such little self-awareness. It's like Michael Scott's level [of] self-awareness. – Dana Perino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'd say it's unfortunate that rather than keeping their sleeves rolled up and continuing to try to find consensus, that some elected officials have seen fit to try to find a convenient culprit for the predicament they find themselves in. – Jim Pasco	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our educators are being put in the predicament yet again by our state of choosing safety. – Ovidia Molina	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There has never been a plan by our state to take into account the safety of our educators. That is how we feel, our educators are being put in the predicament yet again by our state of choosing safety. – Ovidia Molina	Found on CNN 2 years ago
. The existential predicament pits me with the dizziness of the sea. – Haimer abdou	added by haimerart 3 years ago
If he had divested, we wouldn't be in this predicament, but even without divesting, he could put the public first and ensure that government officials minimize their spending at his properties... but he hasn't done that. – Kathleen Clark	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What Judge Hunter wants to do is play by Judge Hunter own set of rules, that's the very attitude and the very conduct that put Judge Hunter in the predicament that Judge Hunter's in and, frankly, has caused all this pain to Judge Hunter and caused all this turmoil to the community. – Scott Croswell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't have a good answer for how we're going to balance it. It is a predicament. – Patrick Shanahan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Double or triple this number will put us in a predicament. – Tonatiuh Guillen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These stories are true. At the time, I said to Comedian Louis C.K. that what I did was OK because I never showed a woman my( penis) without asking first, which is also true, but what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your( penis) isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. – Louis C.K.	Found on CNN 5 years ago
These stories are true. At the time, I said to Louis CKLouis C.K. that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true, but what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. – Louis CKLouis C.K.	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Do you know what I'm saying? … And so she was in a really bad predicament. I think she gave it her best shot, and she's gotten a lot of publicity from it, so, awesome. – Mariah Carey	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Thai policies reflect the predicament of the region, regional states want to have positive relations with China yet at the same time ... strategically they are aligned with the West and they have reasons for being cautious about China's behavior in the region. – Tim Huxley	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This infection is a predicament for all people of child-bearing age who live in Brazil or who travel to Brazil. And that includes both men and women, women could get infected and come back and become pregnant within three weeks or four weeks, or they could be pregnant when they get there. And men could go there and come back with the infection and infect their sexual partner back home. – David Heymann	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I believe that discussions of other shareholding or change of shareholding... they’re not applicable at the moment, the focus is purely on finding a solution to our engine predicament, that we can move forward for next year and the future. – Christian Horner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are being placed as actors in a very dangerous predicament, why are we not protecting our own from having to be in a hotel where the Christian owner can say, 'I'm sorry, you and your boyfriend can't lie in the same bed because the Bible tells me that's wrong.'. – Eric Ulloa	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament, but she alone does not get to determine its outcome. – Trey Gowdy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the Palestinian Authority ceases, or were to cease security cooperation, or even decide to disband as a result of their economic predicament, and that could happen in the future if they don't receive additional revenues, then we would be faced by yet another crisis, we are working hard to prevent that from happening and that is why we have been reaching out to key stakeholders to express these concerns and also to try to work together to find a solution to this challenge. – State John Kerry on Saturday	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. – Viktor Frankl	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago

The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

– Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org

added by upthetotempole
1 year ago

We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves.

– Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People can still spread the virus to someone like me, who’s immune suppressed. They don’t realize they can, when they take off their masks that puts me in a predicament where I have to be more extra careful now in public.

– Mike Olsen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

(C)(P) IN THE COMING YEARS I PREDICT THAT MEN WILL FACE A MUCH GREATER PREDICAMENT FROM THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS SMARTER TO USE THEIR -IPHONES- AND TRACK THEIR EVERY MOVE OF INFIDELITY. MOST MEN ARE JUST CLEVER, BUT NOT WISE!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

If you don't have a huge majority, don't demand stupid things. And I think that's what happened … The Squad … made unreasonable demands that jarred with the reality of the Democrat predicament in the Senate. It wasn't going to happen. they have such little self-awareness. It's like Michael Scott's level [of] self-awareness.

– Dana Perino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'd say it's unfortunate that rather than keeping their sleeves rolled up and continuing to try to find consensus, that some elected officials have seen fit to try to find a convenient culprit for the predicament they find themselves in.

– Jim Pasco

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our educators are being put in the predicament yet again by our state of choosing safety.

– Ovidia Molina

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There has never been a plan by our state to take into account the safety of our educators. That is how we feel, our educators are being put in the predicament yet again by our state of choosing safety.

– Ovidia Molina

Found on CNN
2 years ago

. The existential predicament pits me with the dizziness of the sea.

– Haimer abdou

added by haimerart
3 years ago

If he had divested, we wouldn't be in this predicament, but even without divesting, he could put the public first and ensure that government officials minimize their spending at his properties... but he hasn't done that.

– Kathleen Clark

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What Judge Hunter wants to do is play by Judge Hunter own set of rules, that's the very attitude and the very conduct that put Judge Hunter in the predicament that Judge Hunter's in and, frankly, has caused all this pain to Judge Hunter and caused all this turmoil to the community.

– Scott Croswell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't have a good answer for how we're going to balance it. It is a predicament.

– Patrick Shanahan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Double or triple this number will put us in a predicament.

– Tonatiuh Guillen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These stories are true. At the time, I said to Comedian Louis C.K. that what I did was OK because I never showed a woman my( penis) without asking first, which is also true, but what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your( penis) isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.

– Louis C.K.

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These stories are true. At the time, I said to Louis CKLouis C.K. that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true, but what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.

– Louis CKLouis C.K.

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Do you know what I'm saying? … And so she was in a really bad predicament. I think she gave it her best shot, and she's gotten a lot of publicity from it, so, awesome.

– Mariah Carey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Thai policies reflect the predicament of the region, regional states want to have positive relations with China yet at the same time ... strategically they are aligned with the West and they have reasons for being cautious about China's behavior in the region.

– Tim Huxley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This infection is a predicament for all people of child-bearing age who live in Brazil or who travel to Brazil. And that includes both men and women, women could get infected and come back and become pregnant within three weeks or four weeks, or they could be pregnant when they get there. And men could go there and come back with the infection and infect their sexual partner back home.

– David Heymann

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I believe that discussions of other shareholding or change of shareholding... they’re not applicable at the moment, the focus is purely on finding a solution to our engine predicament, that we can move forward for next year and the future.

– Christian Horner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are being placed as actors in a very dangerous predicament, why are we not protecting our own from having to be in a hotel where the Christian owner can say, 'I'm sorry, you and your boyfriend can't lie in the same bed because the Bible tells me that's wrong.'.

– Eric Ulloa

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament, but she alone does not get to determine its outcome.

– Trey Gowdy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If the Palestinian Authority ceases, or were to cease security cooperation, or even decide to disband as a result of their economic predicament, and that could happen in the future if they don't receive additional revenues, then we would be faced by yet another crisis, we are working hard to prevent that from happening and that is why we have been reaching out to key stakeholders to express these concerns and also to try to work together to find a solution to this challenge.

– State John Kerry on Saturday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

– Viktor Frankl

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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