Writing in the Belfast Sunday Life newspaper on Sunday Gerry Adams said he was now in the difficult position of shuttling between the IRA and others in an effort to avert the current crisis.
The prime minister now finds himself in the difficult position of trying to shore up right-wing backing ahead of the next general election in 2015, while trying to maintain his own affinity for more left-wing causes.
Curtis Akey, director of mergers and acquisitions at Bathgate Capital Partners, a microcap investment banking firm, said vendors are in the most difficult position after a customer merges because the new merged entity will often seek to cut costs swiftly at the vendor level.
The health-law challenges, which began in March 2010, put the court in a difficult position.
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He has taken this club forward on the playing side from a difficult position in the league the season before last to the edge of the play-offs.
The fact is that this congressman from the smog capital of North America has a lot of clout in Washington and the Administration has been placed in a difficult position by his very public, very strident stance.
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Brig Moffat said the British Army was in a difficult position because it worked closely with the US and the Canadian army, which has already allowed women into combat roles.
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Mr Dilnot said the current rules were "unsatisfactory" as they put those entitled to see the information in advance in a "difficult position" if they then had to speak in public and urged a review of the procedures.
Instead, she is opening a new front in the European conflict, with a policy prescription which falls short of leaving the EU - but which could still put the government in a difficult position, if they have to deliver, or at least promise to deliver, it.
Concerns over player safety are serious, not just for the pros, but at the development level, and the whole sport finds itself in the difficult and likely impossible position of creating a "safe" version of a game in which aggression and violence is sewn into the action.
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Although the 2011 changes are a welcome loosening of IRS collection rules it is in no way certain that they will result in reduced enforced collection measures by the IRS. The bad economic times have placed more people in the position where it is difficult to timely pay their tax obligations.
Either way the Patriots would be in a difficult position, but Belichick firmly believed that giving Brady more time, but the additional pressure of scoring a touchdown, gave his team a better chance to win.
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There is no money set aside for employee raises, which could put the next mayor in a difficult position.
Congress's foot-dragging last year put many would-be donors in a difficult position: The law required them to take a minimum IRA withdrawal, but they didn't know whether direct donations from an IRA would be allowed for 2012.
For the opposition, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon said she was in a "difficult" position because whilst the amendments offered "important safeguards" there were concerns about hampering the legitimate use of powers of entry.
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Robert Gordon, Conservative leader of the council, told BBC Three Counties the county council is in a difficult position.
Local government consultant Jeff Jones said local authorities were in a difficult position due to the large budget cuts they were facing.
To say that Scotland would face a more difficult fiscal position in the medium to long-term is not to say that an independent Scotland could not handle that, but to say that a serious debate is required about HOW it would handle it.
The DUP Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Dondaldson said it was a very difficult position for the police to be in and that progress needed to be made on parades.
Their rhetoric is over the top and puts them in a difficult position.
"This job expo signals yet another significant milestone in the city's efforts to emerge from this difficult time in a much stronger position than before, " he said.
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There is a chance that he could leave Barclays in the embarrassing position of having to make difficult choices about its structure which it might wish to avoid.
"It was a difficult position to be in and the fight we showed in the last 10 overs was excellent, " said Collingwood.
It said it was in a "difficult position" because of the need to balance the protection of the nature spot with the requirements of the police.
Yet Mr Erdogan also had to acknowledge the difficult position his government finds itself in over Iraq.
Ulster Unionist Assembly member Peter Weir said the reforms had left David Trimble in a very difficult position.
At present he had not heard many reports of problems with feed deliveries, but said that a few days more "would create some problems", and added that collecting milk could become difficult, which would leave farmers in the position of having to pour away their supplies.
"Following a meeting of the Independent National Directors of the Times and the Sunday Times yesterday we welcome their clear understanding of the very difficult financial position of our newspapers and therefore the need to address the undertakings given in 1981, " he said.
"After a difficult period, the CDU is again in a position to gain votes".
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