She was able to smile despite the situation fraught with danger.

During her years in London she had learned to deal with many difficult and fraught situations.

No point in mentioning the girl's presence, in a situation already so fraught with tension.

For travel companies, the absence of deep snow cover in Europe has compounded an already fraught situation.

It is a fraught situation - a country at war without a unified and competent national army.

The findings will inflame an already fraught political situation in Beirut.

President Clinton has responded well to a situation fraught with diplomatic duplicity.

Lowell's humour - unexpected - that could take the heat out of a fraught situation.

To learn how to cope in such fraught situations and to survive can be a broadening experience.

I hope that it can establish a common position for the European Union in the present very fraught situation.