But expected or not, it presented Hothan with a cruel dilemma.

But the aid agencies struggling to assist the displaced population face, in the most acute form, a cruel dilemma of development.

I am faced by a cruel dilemma.

They looked as if they might laugh or cry at the cruel dilemma.

Out of this difference of opinion, innocuous enough in Cuba, grew a cruel dilemma for the child.

Naturally enough, all of this placed the working-class organisations in a cruel dilemma.

Yet it put the Wersgorix in a cruel dilemma.

The colony governments are thus faced with a cruel and impossible dilemma.

We are really faced with a cruel dilemma.

There is here a cruel dilemma before us.