noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral dilemma (= a difficult decision for moral reasons )
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Doctors face a moral dilemma when a patient can be kept alive but has no chance of real recovery.
herein/therein lies the problem/dilemma etc
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And herein lies the key to their achievements.
pose a dilemma (= cause a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what to do )
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In the future, the possibility of genetic testing on unborn children will pose a dilemma for parents.
solve a dilemma
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Can you solve my dilemma?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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It is an even bigger dilemma at the ideology-setting level, which relates more to strategic movement.
central
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Yet, once the doctrine of consideration has been abandoned, the central dilemma of choice theories becomes even more obvious.
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The central dilemma of the war was embodied in these considerations.
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The central dilemma the Committee faced was how to achieve a balance in company boards between strong direction and accountability.
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She endlessly debates the central dilemma in her life.
ethical
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For over a decade I lived with this new knowledge and with the ethical dilemma surrounding my own pursuit of insider research.
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How everyone has relished the moral, ethical and legal dilemmas .
moral
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His moral dilemmas now appear in novels such as Schindler's Ark, his 1982 Booker prizewinner.
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Snipes gives a brilliant performance as a man caught in a moral dilemma .
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Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas .
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When a clinical situation poses a genuine moral dilemma , by definition no right answer exists.
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The boy presented me with a moral dilemma .
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There are plenty of moral dilemmas .
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It takes no account of the moral dilemmas of human life.
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Dante wrote that the hottest room in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral dilemma .
political
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They have felt misunderstood and scapegoated, quite unprepared for the political and social dilemmas in which they were caught.
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To me, that campaign epitomized the political dilemma facing feminists.
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Thus a political dilemma has re-emerged.
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Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
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But this is only a tongue-tip taste of the political dilemma Harrison faces.
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Both these factors interrelate with a third major political dilemma: the succession to political leadership.
real
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Nor do they deal with the real dilemmas of participation that have been the focus of considerable research.
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The only real dilemma , besides parking, is choosing which acts to see.
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I was now faced with a real dilemma .
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This posed a real dilemma for administrators.
■ VERB
confront
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Winkler sees the administration in the corporatist state as confronted by two dilemmas .
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When the time comes for him to write his next report, Blue is forced to confront this dilemma .
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When they hand out grades, and give or with-hold promotion, teachers are inescapably confronted with this dilemma .
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When 1 first came to work for the network, I was confronted with a nasty dilemma .
create
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Falun Gong's decision to stage demonstrations here has created a vexing dilemma for Hong Kong officials and business leaders.
deal
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They had dealt with the normative dilemma: should they stay at home or not after the child was born?
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Even the fashion of interdisciplinary studies can not really deal with the dilemma .
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Nor do they deal with the real dilemmas of participation that have been the focus of considerable research.
face
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This is no longer the case: scientists today are facing a similar dilemma !
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The task force chair, Robert Spitzer, was then faced with a dilemma .
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The managerial dilemmas Managers are paid more than workers because they face constant dilemmas which they have to resolve.
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In the decades to come, presidents would face the dilemma of what to do about gifts.
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But here we are faced with a dilemma .
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But now I face another dilemma .
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Blues-lovers such as myself face a dilemma .
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This sprawling town faces no shortage of dilemmas as it oozes toward the millennium.
pose
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Yet these brighter prospects pose their own dilemma .
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner, it posed a dilemma .
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This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
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When a clinical situation poses a genuine moral dilemma , by definition no right answer exists.
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This posed a dilemma for him.
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Federal disinvestment posed a serious dilemma for distressed cities.
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This poses a dilemma for the Fed.
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But it also poses problems and dilemmas which occur in communications policy more widely.
present
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Such bodies present us with a dilemma .
resolve
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The managerial dilemmas Managers are paid more than workers because they face constant dilemmas which they have to resolve .
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And the protagonists sounded fairly confident in their attempts to resolve the dilemma .
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The observational data show that Easton's neighbourhood police have two recipes for resolving this dilemma and its associated conundrum.
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Her brief from the state there was to resolve the dilemma .
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In resolving the many dilemmas of structure, solutions may only be temporary.
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In practice settings, those involved are often struggling to find ways of resolving the dilemmas they face.
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An argument with a colleague clarified and resolved the dilemma .
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I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution.
solve
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I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior!
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Low-performing enterprises solve this dilemma by ignoring or denying potential qualitative costs.
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The students say they've put forward new ideas which could solve the dilemma .
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No mere textual reading or logical talisman can solve the dilemma .
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Oh, it brings plenty of its own unique disappointment and despair, but nothing to solve the dilemma of today.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on the horns of a dilemma
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Stirling, who had come direct from Eighth Army Headquarters, was on the horns of a dilemma.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is a common dilemma : Should you stay where you have friends and family, or take that good job in a far-away city?
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Many single parents struggle with the dilemma of dividing time between work and children.
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With a child on each opposing team, Dad was faced with a dilemma : which supporters should he sit with?
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Writers are debating the ethical dilemma raised by the parents who did not want their Siamese twins separated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another unforeseen dilemma which now surfaced was how to satisfy the demands of the new customers for winter-weight, or seasonal clothes.
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But last week's global stock market slump underscores the cartel's dilemma .
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I explained the dilemma to a friend.
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Peace campaigners in the 1980s, and animal-rights and environmental groups in the 1990s, faced this dilemma .
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Snipes gives a brilliant performance as a man caught in a moral dilemma .
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The first dilemma has been discussed: the managers gradually learned that their subordinates varied extensively in skill and motivation.
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This happens when the employee learns to escape the personal dilemma temporarily by devoting more effort to his or her job.