Either to go or to stay seemed a cruel choice; but we well knew that there would be no choice.

A cruel choice, but one we can undo now.

President-elect Bill Clinton faces what some of his advisers regard as a cruel choice.

"In politics, you have to decide between evil and less evil, and that can be a cruel choice."

But sometimes life is the wrong choice, a cruel choice, a tragic choice.

A cruel choice that Redl is forced to make.

Here they faced a cruel choice: risk observation from the road, where the traffic was probably Russian, or from the mountaintop.

It's a cruel choice, and an unnecessary one.

New York is a good example of a state where Medicaid eligibility forces the cruel choice of work or health on poor families.

Why should God confront him with this cruel choice a second time, and thus freakishly, when his happiness was at its fullest flower?