predicament

Now, like two bottle rockets veering wildly off course, the NFL franchises cross paths again and face similar predicaments.

Firefighters rescued a goat from a baaaad predicament after she took a tumble from the top of her favorite napping rock and found herself trapped in between two minivan-sized boulders.

But she said she had ultimately found Sir Jim "quite arrogant and more supportive of Ms Booth than our predicament".

It is a reflection, in a sentence, of how this party perceives its predicament and what it is trying to do about it.

Is it something he can lean into as a defining idea of his time in office and help him address the predicament he and his party find themselves in?