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Answer for the clue "Difficult situation ", 7 letters:
problem

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a difficult question proposed for solution," from Old French problème (14c.) and directly from Latin problema , from Greek problema "a task, that which is proposed, a question;" also "anything projecting, headland, promontory; fence, barrier;" ...

Usage examples of problem.

We would then be faced with the problem of the respect to be accorded the legislative judgment on an issue as to which, in default of that judgment, we have been forced to depend upon our own.

Fastow thought he had finally found a way around the accounting problems that had killed Alpine Investors.

Upon this ugly race antagonism it is not necessary to enlarge here in discussing the problem of education, and I will leave it with the single observation that I have heard intelligent negroes, who were honestly at work, accumulating property and disposed to postpone active politics to a more convenient season, say that they had nothing to fear from the intelligent white population, but only from the envy of the ignorant.

Nadia brought in meat and vegetables and stored them away, Stevens attacked the problem of constructing the pair of tight-beam, auto-dirigible transmitter and receptor units which would connect his great turbo-alternator to the accumulators of their craft, wherever it might be in space.

Therein lies the problem: textbooks cannot report accurately on the six foreign interventions described in this chapter without mentioning that the U.

You take care of your own family, love Jill, take care of those kids, and take any of my advisements of problems from here on out as simple advisements, not requisitions for miracles.

It cannot be truly international unless it accords to its affiliated bodies full freedom in matters of policy and forms of struggle on the basis of such program and principles, so that the Socialists of each country may work out their problems in the light of their own peculiar economic, political and social conditions as well as the historic traditions.

The one unexplained allele he had found on 22 might not be the source of the problem.

I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.

In particular, breakthroughs in alloplasty and regeneration ended the organ bank problem.

Oppy and Groves droned on about problems of the isolation of isotopes and allotropic states of plutonium, Joe wondered why he had gone to bed with Mrs Augustino.

I like to think we licked that problem a year ago when we redesigned the judgment and emotional analogue circuits.

Except for this one problem, that of the Anarch, about which you have so much hostility and distrust, I still think we were off to a quite good beginning.

But nearly all these authors treat chiefly of parallel perspective, which they do with clearness and simplicity, and also mathematically, as shown in the short treatise in Latin by Christian Wolff, but they scarcely touch upon the more difficult problems of angular and oblique perspective.

The problem for NSA was how to get an antenna and tape recorder into one of the most secret and heavily protected areas on earth.