difficult situation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultandsituation
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difficult
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, given that the physician cannot control her patient's access to medical information, she must make the best of adifficultsituation.
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It is maybe unfair to criticise without full knowledge - both are clearly doing their best in adifficultsituation.
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And this usually worked to their advantage since it placed men in thedifficultsituationof having to defend their ' ideal ' masculinity.
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When nothing else had been given enough attention, crying could be used as the last resort to be noticed in a disadvantaged ordifficultsituation.
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This created adifficultsituationfor the authorities.
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Furthermore, incurring debt in and of itself can be seen as adifficultsituationleading more and more often to bankruptcy.
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In order to attain these goals they took measures that aggravated an already verydifficultsituation.
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Lockwood analyzes this very complex anddifficultsituationusing the concepts of autonomy and risk to weigh the competing issues.
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The proposed changes in the registration of still births will give unmarried fathers the same rights and responsibilities as married fathers in thisdifficultsituation.
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Nonetheless, committees were in a moredifficultsituationwhen dealing with corruption cases where powerful persons were involved.
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However, these governments were in adifficultsituation.
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Their attempt to make the best out of adifficultsituationin turn threatens the safety of all passengers through speeding and overloading.
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By saying this, he is making fun of thedifficultsituation, joking on the fact that he could not change it easily.
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We intentionally made the differences among clusters 2, 3 and 4 very small to evaluate the efficiency of our method in dealing with thedifficultsituation.
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The freedom with which the soldiers seemed to articulate their critiques may be seen as reflecting theirdifficultsituation, and their frustrations and feelings of neglect.
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Callaghan, whose job it was to reply, was put in a verydifficultsituation.
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The landless, as they lacked the possibility to exchange a farm for board and lodging, were in a considerably moredifficultsituationin the autumn of their lives.
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In thisdifficultsituation, children could gain from the extended family in yet another sense, for grandparents and other kin could provide them with an alternative source of family information.
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