It means the health service is caught between a rock and a hard place.
In a way, speculators on both sides are caught between a rock and hard place.
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In this situation, American policymakers are stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place.
What do you do when you are between a rock and a hard place?
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is stuck between a diplomatic rock and a political hard place.
All of which leaves Saudi Arabia's rulers between a rock and a hard place.
So there Bernanke sits and shivers, caught between an inflation rock and a housing hard place, paralyzed.
On the face of it, Mr Gandhi may be caught between a rock and a hard place.
Others who resist are already finding themselves in a difficult position between a Barack and a hard place.
With the cost of undergraduate education steeply increasing recently, the average student is between a rock and a hard place.
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But as data caps fall and prices go up, many consumers find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
However, even a reformed Indonesia remains a hard place to do business, both for local entrepreneurs and, especially, for foreign investors.
Many mortgage holders are caught between a rock and a hard place.
And indeed a street map of India (notoriously hard place to navigate) was already in the works, being crowd-sourced by users in India.
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This left the SEC between the proverbial rock and hard place.
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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Too many people have concluded from studies like these that women are stuck between a gender rock and leadership hard place but men are not.
"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.
It's not exactly a choice between a rock and a hard place when the stakes are between fruitful first-class passengers--and a workforce that now seems prone to taking industrial action.
"We were compelled to do it because we were between a rock and a hard place, " explained Lutfullah Kamran, a 24-year-old computer-science graduate who is commander of the new Andar ALP.
The hard place is the Federal Reserve, which could also engage in quantitative easing, weakening the dollar, defying the attempts of the BoJ and crushing anyone who is long this pair.
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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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"This is still a hard place to live in, but it's everything that's left to me, " says Bush, who draws his water from a natural spring and hunts the hardwood forests for wild onions, mushrooms and herbs.
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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