When he'd been up in the hills above the Wind River in Wyoming, he had been faced with three possible options.

You fall prey to the tyranny of choice-the idea that people, when faced with too many options, find it harder to make a selection.

"If we are faced with two options, and for some reason we feel they are equivalent, it makes sense not to force a major testing campaign," Mr. Jones said.

Grossman claims in his book On Killing that a soldier is faced with four options once they have entered into combat.

According to her, the opposition is now faced with two options: "greater militarization of local resistance or foreign intervention."

In the midst of this recession President Nixon was faced with two options.

YOU go to the hardware store to buy a simple drawer pull and you're faced with 1,500 options.

Without a paper trail, the I.R.S. would be faced with two options: accept the taxpayer's return as filed or launch an invasive investigation of the taxpayer.

Now Washington and its allies are faced with two unattractive options for dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue.

Thus, when Baltar approaches him for better weapons, Adama is faced with two options: