Word Finder - situation

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The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.

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The United States is in an awkward situation with debt default looming.

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The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.

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The Botanical Gardens are in a delightful situation on the river bank.

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The place in which something is situated; a location.

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Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.

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A position of employment; a post.

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A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

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Boss, we've got a situation here...

I don't know how I got into this situation in the first place.

I'm in a precarious situation here.

The entire situation was a mess.

I see us today in a situation like those historical ones.

For a moment she had the shocking realization that the situation was out of control.

He took in the situation and stepped back.

I was, for a reason known to God alone, much more calm than the situation dictated.

He looked bewildered as he explained the situation to us.

This has been a common situation throughout areas with high degrees of poverty and is certainly the case in Ethiopia.

I was resigned it was my duty to explain the situation, with or without Howie's input, but Betsy interrupted before I could begin.

My attempt at lightening the situation fell on deaf ears.

Never the less, I forewarned Molly and she accepted the situation bravely.

The whole situation is downright bizarre.

While Cynthia hemmed and hawed about the most diplomatic way to suggest that the Dawkinses might billet down to two rooms from the three they now occupied, the situation cured itself.

He knew in a situation like this fear and panic were their worse enemies.

Fortunately, there was no opportunity to discuss the situation with the children present.

There was nothing they could say or do about Martha's situation except to keep their telephone nearby and pray for the best.

Probably because he didn't know how to handle the situation - and Alex always wanted to be in control.

In spite of the situation, sleep claimed her eventually.

The situation called for extreme measures.

He minimized the situation and thanked us for the excitement we'd given to the start of his retirement.

Deidre looked from Harmony to Selyn, wishing she knew how to diffuse the situation in a way that Selyn was able to escape.

He couldn't help but compare the situation to Billy Langstrom's.

Early in 1787 King was moved by the Shays Rebellion and by the influence of Alexander Hamilton to take a broader view of the general situation, and it was he who introduced the resolution in Congress, on the 21st of February 1787, sanctioning the call for the Philadelphia constitutional convention.

Foreseeing that the British Government must ultimately resign itself to a withdrawal of the Dardanelles army from its dangerous situation on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Monro had already, some days before the permission to evacuate reached him from home, given instructions that certain preparations were to be made towards facilitating that operation.

We begin by deducing every well-known historical situation from the series of its antecedents.

Its situation, said to have been fixed by the Delphic oracle, was remarkable for beauty and security.

To check the inroads of the barbarians on the north of the Black Sea, Diocletian had resolved to transfer his capital to Nicomedia; but Constantine, struck with the advantages which the situation of Byzantium presented, resolved to build a new city there on the site of the old and transfer the seat of government to it.

The total value 1 of all the mineral products of the state in 1907 was $937,3 8 4, and in 1908, $708,694, and of these totals granite systems, causing the formation of numerous lakes and of the waterfalls which determined the situation of many of the manufacturing cities of the state.

Its importance was due, first to its military strength, secondly to its situation on an important highway leading from the interior to the Aegean coast, and thirdly to its commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus.

Its situation in the broad and fertile valley of the Main, the northern horizon formed by the soft outlines of the Taunus range, is one of great natural beauty, the surrounding country being richly clad with orchard and forest.

In the critical situation after the battle of Pavia (1525) she proved herself equal to the emergency, maintained order in the kingdom, and manoeuvred very skilfully to detach Henry VIII.

The situation was saved by a newspaper whicl from the outset of its career obeyed the best canons of journalism - Born in 1882, the fiji Shimpo (Times) enjoyed the immense advan tage of having its policy controlled by one of the greatest thinker of modern Japan, Fukuzawa Yukichi.

The situation is pleasant and the neighbouring district well wooded and hilly.

Gregory of Tours, in the 6th century, comments on the strength and pleasant situation of the place, expressing surprise that it does not rank as a civitas.

I have still as much vanity as ever, which is a happier passion by far, because great reputation I think I may acquire and keep, great situation I never can acquire, nor if acquired keep, without making sacrifices that I never will make."

Apply a ligature above, not on the top of, the situation of the bite, twist the string tightly with a stick.

Propertius is a less accomplished artist and a less equably pleasing writer than either Tibullus or Ovid, but he shows more power of dealing gravely with a great or tragic situation than either of them, and his diction and rhythm give frequent proof of a concentrated force of conception and a corresponding movement of imaginative feeling which remind us of Lucretius.

Pausanias, the victor of Plataea, soon showed himself destitute of the high qualities which the situation demanded.

There was a great development in the mining industry during 18 971898 and 1899, thei value of the gold extracted in 1898 exceeding £15,000,000, but the political situation grew worse, and in September 1899, owing to the imminence of war between the Transvaal and Great Britain, the majority of the Uitlanders fled from the city.

Notwithstanding the increased production of gold, Johannesburg during1905-1907passed through a period of severe commercial depression, the result in part of the unsettled political situation.

He obtained a situation at Lubeck, where he had leisure to cultivate his natural taste for drawing and poetry.

The situation was more than.

The results of this journey may be traced in his translation with emendations of the book of Eusebius on the situation and names of Hebrew places, written probably three years afterwards, when he had settled down at Bethlehem.

The death of the adventurous John at Crecy, and the election of his son as emperor, still further improved the situation.

A twofold migration is doubtful, and, from what is known of the situation in Palestine in the 15th century B.C., is extremely improbable.

Nevertheless, there is as yet no monumental evidence in favour of the genuineness of the story, and at the most it can only be said that the author (of whatever date) has derived his names from a trustworthy source, and in representing an invasion of Palestine by Babylonian overlords has given expression to a possible situation.

Mighty fortifications and harbour works have assisted to make this ideal situation an emporium of Mediterranean trade.

Mizzi cared little for a constitution that did not make him complete master of the situation, and resigned his post in the government.

The chief cause of this was the impossible situation which resulted from Edward's position as duke of Gascony.