This has left his successor, Ehud Olmert, in an excruciating dilemma, one from which he is still trying to extricate himself.

The excruciating dilemma the country faces, particularly after the violent Palestinian rejection of Camp David, is how to do this while protecting its mortal body.

"China's leaders face an excruciating dilemma," said David M. Lampton, an American specialist on China who has just completed a week of discussions with party officials.

These experts said being presented such a form could pose an excruciating dilemma for news sources.

But just as strongly you understand Casim's excruciating dilemma.

What is the excruciating dilemma?

Those are the choices, the two excruciating dilemmas, when each player in the field reaches the par-5 13th and 15th holes at Augusta National Golf Club.

If it came down to a vote in the Security Council on sanctions, China would face an excruciating dilemma.

As Germans have discovered in the last months of debate, the choice of currency exchange rates poses an excruciating economic dilemma.

If Walsh had been Starr, Reagan would have faced the same excruciating dilemma as Clinton: admit to a spectacular public lie or lie again under oath.