The bill, which began its parliamentary journey this week, has been rejected outright by Italy's biggest trade-union federation, the CGIL. That stance has put the leaders of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) between the rock of their historic ties to organised labour and the hard place of support for the government.
"The Bank remains between a rock and a hard place in trying to strike a balance between the rising pressures of inflation and supporting the economic recovery, " he said.
With projected federal spending topping 34 percent of GDP and the known politically acceptable levels of federal tax revenues falling below 20 percent of GDP, we are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
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With the cost of undergraduate education steeply increasing recently, the average student is between a rock and a hard place.
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In this situation, American policymakers are stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place.
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Top Conservatives generally hope the UK will remain in the EU. The problem is that they are caught between a rock and a hard place.
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It means the health service is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Many of these resent whipping decisions which put them between a rock and a hard place, and wish the government had shrugged, noted that the motion would not have been binding and downplayed the whole thing...
The unemployed who turn age 62 are caught between a rock and a hard place: jobs are scarce but if they take their Social Security now to supplement their unemployment it will permanently reduce the benefit.
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On the face of it, Mr Gandhi may be caught between a rock and a hard place.
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