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A bad decision made early in a time of crisis lives on, says Fink, because a leader is often put in the unenviable position of defending it.

Shanghai's nightlife is in the unenviable position of having to live up to its own decades-old reputation.

China now holds the unenviable record of producing as much organic water pollution as the United States, Japan and India combined.

An unenviable task, then, for the American diplomats who face the task of arguing back in defence of old-fashioned libertarianism.

Such a difficult choice placed her in an invidious and unenviable position.

Lehman faces an unenviable choice: It would be a sign of weakness if Lehman ends up selling large amounts of assets under pressure.

All this leaves policymakers with an unenviable task: deciding when and how to withdraw the drugs.

All minor browsers have had the unenviable task of deciding which event model to support.

Deciding on which team will come away with the trophy is the unenviable task here.

This leaves many vendors in the unenviable spot of having to finesse their business model like a game of Risk.

Policymakers from these countries are in an unenviable position.

His parents have given my wife and I the unenviable task of making him bilingual.

AMERICA'S new secretary of state is making a cautious start to an awkward job in unenviable circumstances.

You are placing parents like me in the unenviable position of having to tell our children that we can't afford the toys you promote.

But the Harbin scandal also focused the spotlight on an unenviable safety record.

Collapse: Conflict has elevated Somalia into the unenviable position of the world's most failed state.

A divorced woman is likely to find herself in an unenviable position.

A business or system "visionary" plays an important yet sometimes unenviable role in making this happen.

XIAMEN, China (Reuters) - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.

In contrast, many western banks are in the unenviable position of having to pay a premium.

The goalless defeat further extends Greece's unenviable record of never having scored at the World Cup finals.

He was in the unenviable position of having to choose between imprisonment or exile.

It is an unenviable choice, which Mr Obama has already made once before, only to back down when the going got tough.

Mr. Rajoy now has been handed the unenviable task of recreating an economy that never really existed.

Developed under this. . . Biemang, dug a fire burned the hell you are in an unenviable position, digging as soon as possible to add water.

Indebted governments face an unenviable menu of options.

It's a management team with an unenviable task.

In conclusion, the Mesopotamians and Greeks held a view of the afterlife that was unenviable.

A bigger hurdle was convincing people to perform the unenviable task of cleaning the dung.

It is an unenviable job, but attempt it they must.

This is the unenviable task faced by Nick Craig Waller, marketing director at IIR Exhibitions.

And so Mr McCain's team faces an unenviable choice.

if that happens , the fed will face the unenviable task of curtailing its easing or even raising rates while the economy is weak