"They need not come to the main headquarters and face an ugly situation."

"I was thinking of the ugly situation in Europe," he said instead.

It had been a very ugly situation, a bad divorce.

If he does not perform on the court this year, I think you could be looking at an ugly situation.

It wouldn't take much for an ugly situation to develop.

Right now he had a moderately ugly situation on his hands.

But there was nothing to do but accept the ugly situation.

Could be a reflection of the ugly situation in Israel.

"I'm the one who is facing such an ugly situation."

Walking away from a potentially ugly situation is not failure.