Word: dilemma
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...Europe and development to cater to it may undermine things that make Morocco so special," says Billaux, the Rabat homeowner. "On the other hand, you can't ask people you've come to live with to eternally lag 50 years behind for our sake." That used to be the dilemma that confronted richer Europeans making new homes in the Continent's poorer nations; now it plays out in Europe's neighbors...
...makes it feel fresh," says creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey's Anatomy will choose...
...Rice's diplomatic emphasis. "Nobody is considering a military option at this point," says an Administration official. "We're trying to prevent a situation in which the President finds himself having to decide between a nuclear-armed Iran or going to war. The best hope of avoiding that dilemma is hard-nosed diplomacy, one that has serious consequences...
...word, and that nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. Were it God's will, we would even have to practise idolatry. At this point, as far as understanding of God and thus the concrete practice of religion is concerned, we are faced with an unavoidable dilemma. Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true? I believe that here we can see the profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the biblical understanding of faith...
...risk he sees implicit in this concept of the divine is that the irrationality of violence can potentially be justified if someone believes it is God's will. "As far as understanding of God and thus the concrete practice of religion is concerned, we find ourselves faced with a dilemma which nowadays challenges us directly. Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true...