quandaries

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This case presents some difficult moral quandaries, as some would believe Dr. Turner is providing a valuable service for her patients.

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  • There are easy solutions to rectify these grammatical quandaries: make Sentence B plural or for Sentence A, use both "his" and "her" for the coordinating activities and switch in —  The Michigan Daily
  • This hard to label genre entry (a little "Summer of 42," a touch "American Graffiti," and s generous portion of college age Woody Allen relationship moaning, think "Burning Annie," an indie filmed on MU's campus) has interlocking events, quandaries or situations which lightly bridges career, interpersonal and social circumstances faced by new college grads both then and now.
  • Robert Downey Jr's "charismatic performance holds Jon Favreau's film together when it threatens to lose its way between the crash-bang set pieces," writes the David Jenkins finds the whole thing "little more than an elongated, episodic and sporadically charming introduction to the life of this mechanised millionaire superhero, light on both CGI and moral quandaries, and possessing neither the zip and sparkle of a Batman Begins." —  GreenCine Daily
  • The transformation from a largely self-reliant populace to one for which the government is seen as the well spring of solutions for all national quandaries, whether great or small, took less than the twenty years from Hoover to Eisenhower and blurred the differences between the two parties. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Financial quandaries are not uncommon for soldiers. —  Latest News
 

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