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Quagmire

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Quagmire meaning

A swampy, soggy area of ground. | A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.

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A half-inch of rain fell on Friday, turning the site into a quagmire, and attendees were ordered not to leave because the exit roads were impassable.

Egypt has so far resisted, wary of complicity in the purging of fellow-Arabs and of seeding its own refugee quagmire.

I had already driven an early pre-production prototype around a quagmire-like off-road course near the hi-tech factory in Hambach in France where the British-designed, German engineered 4x4 is built.

In order to save their daughter’s life, the entire family is dragged into a new quagmire by the promises of two African immigrants.

She said the party has started a public outreach programme to “save the people from this situation” and to fulfil the agenda of its founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed “to take Jammu and Kashmir out of this trouble quagmire”.

The amended recommendations of the bishops and recommendations of Igbo clerics must be followed to resolve the quagmire in Ohanaeze.

The narrative feature debut of Erica Tremblay traverses much of the same ground as other films set on and around reservations, highlighting poverty, a spirit to hustle, human trafficking, and the quagmire of political relations between sovereign nations.

TMO has been in an earnings quagmire along with much of the biotech industry.

After the international quagmire that was the Vietnam War, movies were no longer all fun and games.

Battling back from 2-0 down with 18 minutes to go on a quagmire of a pitch at Field Mill signalled a charge up the table and success for Evatt in his first season in charge.

However, the greatest burden that Zuma would leave for his successor isn’t the political and judicial quagmire, but rather an energy crisis that had been passed on to Zuma by his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, that has only worsened in recent years.

In a movie where one co-lead is an emotionless loner with a mental illness and the other is a popular upper-class student who puts her friend in an ethical quagmire, it feels funny to focus on the much less flashy character of the two.

Mr Redfern made a passionate plea to councillors to fix “the quagmire that we must endure to get our kids to school; run our businesses and conduct our lives”.

Ogunmolasuyi promised that the budget, when passed, would reposition the state’s economy from the current financial quagmire by ensuring full compliance with the financial rules, openness and adoption of world best practices.

This ties them into the growing movement without requiring participation in the quagmire of social media.

As club dealings dragged her further into the quagmire, Tara became aware of a series of letters that could have damning ramifications for her future.

As it sinks in for Roger what a quagmire he’s gotten himself into, he tries to flee; William’s friends grab and detain him.

A snowstorm had dumped over a foot of snow in the panhandle, leaving the Chadron field a “muddy quagmire,” according to the News.

Dr. Mundia Kabinga, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Finance and Strategy in the UCT GSB’s Development Finance Centre (DEFIC) described the context in which the country found itself in this economic quagmire.