catch-22

• Davidson said the district is in a catch-22 situation as additional personnel cuts mean more unemployment costs, which then lead to still more position cuts. —  News Review - Top Stories
• The DEA and NIDA have successfully created a catch-22 for patients, doctors and scientists by denying that marijuana is a medicine because it is not approved by the FDA, while simultaneously obstructing the very research that would be required for FDA to approve marijuana as a medicine. —  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
• For years some of us have been warning about the catch-22 danger of various government ID plans.
• Having said which, he adds, "It would be patronising [to the audience] not to make Tony three-dimensional" - not to mention make mugs of Pat Butcher, Ricky, et al. They were keen, too, to check whether Coghill could handle the extracurricular side of the job, because the catch-22 is that if he does it well, he'll be convincing, and some people, notes company manager Carolyn Weinstein, "can't always divorce reality from fiction". —  Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
• The catch-22 is that these are all good to lock Hall of Famers for their hitting. —  Comments for FanGraphs Baseball

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