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situation

A situation is the conditions at a time and place. If you can stay calm, it will help you to handle difficult situations. Can you describe the situation in Iraq during the war? Under the new government, the political situation is changing rapidly.

situation

(= state of affairs) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time the present international situation is dangerous wondered how such a state of affairs had come about eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation — Franklin D.Roosevelt (= position) a condition or position in which you find yourself the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils found herself in a very fortunate situation a complex or critical or unusual difficulty the dangerous situation developed suddenly that's quite a situation no human situation is simple (= site) physical position in relation to the surroundings the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides (= post) a job in an organization he occupied a post in the treasury

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Simple sentences

Tom was master of the situation in no time.
According to this magazine, the economic situation in Japan is getting worse year by year.
The situation is hopeless.
He was master of the situation.
What should I do in this situation?
Tom should have handled the situation differently.
This is an unusual situation.
The question is how will we deal with this situation.
Do you think the situation can improve?
This situation, which you are experiencing right now, was prepared by you at some time in the past.
The situation quickly got out of hand.
The situation has changed.
Sami was trying to understand the situation.
The situation is worse than we believed.
If I were in your situation, I would do the same thing.
We regard the situation as serious.
The situation is growing serious.
The people at large are hoping for great changes in the light of the present situation.
A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.
In a similar situation, the company was held liable.
Bob Johnson tried to make people realize the seriousness of the situation in Africa.
It will not add anything to the situation.
It sums up the situation pretty well.
It puts a different complexion on the situation.
The attitude holds good in such a situation.
The man extricated Ellie from a dangerous situation.
Your situation is analogous to mine.
I beg to differ, as I disagree with your analysis of the situation.
The situation has come to the point where we either sink or swim.
Please inform me of any changes in the situation.
I wish you would tell me what I ought to do in this difficult situation.

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I won't do anything that would put us in a disadvantegous situation.
The situation's serious!
All conditions for this situation have been cleared.
It'll have to wait till the security situation in Area 11 has stabilized.
Who was it that created this situation?
I may not know your situation, how can this happen to a young Lady like you?
How can I be interested ONLY in your situation?
I don't know what situation you are in, but how about we go back now?
How did the Magistrate's mother end up in that situation?
Mr. President, we have a situation.
And if it were any other situation, I would take off my earrings, my extensions, and my wings, and curb-stomp you.
Oh, I got a situation here.
We got an emergency situation going on.
I don't think paintball guns would've been that helpful in this situation.
In a situation like that, what could you do?
My actions were based on what I saw. I read the situation, and I lead my squad.
No, sir. The situation has drastically changed.
We will stop them at any cost before that situation comes to pass.
Does anyone care to explain the situation to our very own snoozing sweetheart?
That situation must be averted at all costs.
The situation is tense. There is fear of further unrest.
We're aware of your situation.
Take the foreign situation.
The whole situation is out of control.
They want to try to keep the relationship going as much as they can, but they know that it's going to be tricky because Allison's situation with her family. The Argents hunt werewolves.
When Scott sees Gerard cut the other werewolf in half, it makes him realize how real the situation is. You know, these guys aren't screwing around.
Scott can respect their situation, and knows that, you know, the offer at hand of them becoming a werewolf sounds like a really cool thing, but knows that it just is not. It'll mess up their life.
Lydia, he thinks that she is in the same situation that he was in.
Scott has sympathy for everybody who went through his situation. All right, I got it.
But they're family, so she accepts Scott's situation and they get closer to one another. Everything that I said before, forget it.
America, China, Japan and Russia are all paying close attention to the situation between the South and North.
It's that I know how bad her situation is.
The sort of hopeless situation that we are in?
But I'm South Korea's King. Since it isn't an official standpoint from the United States Government and not your own opinion, but instead we have to understand by looking at the situation ourselves.
The current situation is quite bad. If this continues for 6 months, the recovery period of the economy in our country, will be fatally affected.
In a difficult situation like this, if the mother doesn't make an effort.
As you came here, not to the office, I couldn't.. go back. I don't know what situation you are in, but how about we go back now?

News and current affairs

On the contrary, expansion takes away the worries - be they real or imagined - that surround the situation of the large Russian-speaking populations that now live outside of Russia but within the borders of the former Soviet Union.
This could have incited a complicated situation where Russians were faced with tough visa requirements when travelling between Kaliningrad and Russia proper.
This, in turn, created once again the kind of win-win situation that is so important for future relations between the EU and Russia.
That this happens to ordinary Russians is clear; what Cherkesov revealed was that Putin's circle also confronts this situation.
This is how citizens can be taken - and take themselves - seriously as documenters and investigators of our common situation.
Walking a fine line in what was essentially a lose-lose situation, the party leadership laid out the stakes clearly and judiciously left the final decision to parliament.
Can the situation get worse?
America's situation was not unique: Japan had been in been in thrall to a liquidity trap since the mid-1990s.
Nevertheless, even if America is only on the edge of a liquidity trap, and even if it moves away from the current state of affairs soon, this is a frightening situation.
The situation is intractable.
But they are reacting to the current situation.
But the Bush administration is not the sole culprit for the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
It was NATO's job to ensure the country's stability and security, and thus NATO's weak General Secretary and the European allies, especially Germany and France, share the responsibility for the worsening situation.
Yet, despite all the difficulties, the situation in Afghanistan, unlike that in Iraq, is not hopeless.
In the case of Ireland, the situation was initially not much different.
At their June summit, Europe's leaders finally recognized the need to rectify this situation, transferring responsibility for banking supervision in the eurozone to the European Central Bank.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
John Stuart Mill, in his classic book On Liberty, considered a situation in which a man sets out to cross a bridge that we know is unsafe.
This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of - and arguably much worse than - the now-repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
This miserable situation has been attributed to various causes, mainly lack of infrastructure and local economic conditions.
Maternal mortality is a sinister consequence of this complex situation.
That situation needs to be reversed.
Most Poles think that Poland's situation is akin to Denmark's.

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