Imagine a swimmer in water over his head You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Unlike Taylor, Fillmore truly believed that the nation was facing a crisis.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

I immediately knew I was facing a terrible warrior.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Mr.Brown is facing a tight election. The Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, has topped the latest opinion polls.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

But Warren says the good news comes at a time when researchers are facing a big obstacle - limited funding.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

And facing a skeptical public, the British leader reiterated his contention that fighting in Afghanistan is necessary to keep Britain safe.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"At a time when we're fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, this would have been an inexcusable waste of money.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

What is really meant by the term defeat, in the parlance of conventional military aims, when facing a shadowy global terrorist network?,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

In addition to health care, the Obama administration appears to be facing a growing problem with domestic support for the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The Afghan forces are now facing a Taliban that appears to be moving beyond their traditional strongholds in the southern part of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Analysts blame the sharp increase on the turbulent national elections and a re-emerging Taliban facing a surge of U.S.troops, determined to take the provinces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Those rebels,driven from Uganda into neighboring Congo, are now facing a joint operation by Ugandan defense forces and troops from the Central African Republic.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Riedel says U.S.and NATO troops are facing a syndicate of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan consisting of different groups like the Taliban and al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The current government in Kabul appears to be facing a more immediate threat,however, not from the Taliban but due to concerns about its own credibility.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

"The problem with resistance means that we might be facing a situation where our currently, mostly susceptible epidemic is replaced in a decade or two by mostly multi-drug resistant disease,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

In fact most global automakers have signaled that they are going ahead with plans to open new factories in India at a time when many of them are facing a serious slump in their home countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

But this year the Roman Catholic Church is facing a growing crisis amid a flood of accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests over the decades and allegations of a cover up by senior clergy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

Facing a barrage of criticism for failing to get adequate justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bhopal gas leak, the government has said it needs to revisit laws pertaining to the kind of industrial disaster witnessed in Bhopal.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Many of his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Facing Cemetery Hill, the Confederates stood shoulder to shoulder in a line almost two kilometers long.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

She is standing on the front of a ship facing the strong island winds.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Now there is a new threat facing coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.10