The French Cul de Sac

Syria s Sectarian Stalemate

I can help Tom out.

What had I gotten myself into?

There are no signs of this impasse going away because there is no political will amongst key actors to remove it.

FRlAR O woeful sympathy! Piteous predicament!

Leave him alone. He will come out of this by himself.

I'll put every resource we have at your disposal.

why'd you get in such a fix?

Yes, a truly elegant way of breaking this deadlock.

America s quandary is that it is both part of the problem and part of the solution.

Layla threw Sami under the bus.

Sami threw Layla under the bus to save himself.

Sami threw his mom under the bus.

The continuation of that quandary will inevitably provide additional fuel for conflicts.

I didn't know how I was going to get out of it

In this situation, I find a parallel for the present world predicament.

This is the only way out of the current unworkable predicament.

Otherwise, we stand no chance of getting out of the present deadlock.

Yes, but I saw that was a cheap way out.

Tell me, how long have you been in this predicament?

Obama so far seems unable to break this fiscal logjam.

We urgently need a breakthrough.

The question of summary records illustrated the kind of quandary at times faced by the Department.

And their response is draconian, and not necessarily the one that's going to get them out of this.

There's still time to get out of this.

Only their acceptance can lead them out of this impasse.

But we have a limited supply of this corn, so it's not a solution to the limited supply part of the quandary.

He's focusing all his attention on getting himself out of trouble.

You know I can't tell them about you. You understand the fix we're in.

The shock of seeing your friend dead, your own predicament... was too much to bear.

I trust Lord Percy will manage to extricate himself from his impasse?

I just called to say thanks for gettin' me out of that jam last night.

The only way out is to accelerate the institution building process significantly.

Neither side can talk its way out of this predicament.

The current stalemate represented a denial of this essential right and put regional stability and security at risk.

For those reasons, I deeply regret the fact that this year the Commission is facing the same impasse.

I appeal to representatives to focus their attention on those two similar proposals so that we can get out of this hole.

When you got the measles, I thought I'd never get out of this jam.

In fact, this negative verdict barely scratches the surface of France s predicament.

Mindanao is not Cambodia or Lebanon, but the essential dilemma is the same.

His Excellency Bingu wa Mutharika is aware of the predicament I am in.

In this regard, the impasse in the Conference on Disarmament has become unconscionable.

We all are called upon to take this into account in order that the present impasse may be resolved in the near future.

In order to escape this impasse, we have helped to launch the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.