How To Use Quagmire In A Sentence

It is a political and legal quagmire, so nobody will go near it. Times, Sunday Times
It is a pity that a book that has such detail is unable to overcome the obstacles of intricacy without leaving the reader stuck in the quagmire of literary and historical obscurity.
Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
This would be particularly severe for low income economies that are striving to pullout of their current economic quagmires.
Each standalone part of the trilogy tells the story of a Stuart king and the political quagmire surrounding them. Times, Sunday Times

Even so, this is a legal quagmire with the possibility of litigation or fines flying in all directions.
Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles.
The battlefields had become a quagmire of blood, gore, mud, miles of trenches and poor generalship on both sides of no-man's land.
Here is some unsolicited advice for the Obama administration: you essentially have four days to put US involvement in the Libya war on a path that doesn't look like open-ended quagmire. Robert Naiman: When the House Comes Back, You're Gonna Get in Trouble
Without a clear approach, companies could see themselves involved in a bureaucratic quagmire.
Then the "chinooks" came with their warm winds that changed the snow-laden landscape into a quagmire of mud, water, and open stretches of road which raised all kinds of havoc with the metal cleats. American Chronicle
The chatterers who argued two weeks ago that the war was turning into a quagmire have found a new cause for feigned despair: looting.
If the top mastermind is in Yemen, what the hell are we doing building a quagmire in Afghanistan? Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010
If the pessimists are right and it turns out to be a long and costly quagmire then people will remember the negatives and the pendulum will swing back the other way.
Within the space of a single lap the whole course had been turned to a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
If the council rejects the deal, it will catapult Brussels into a legal quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The next year they were hot favourites in the grand final against Warragul Industrials before losing in a quagmire at Drouin.
That's why these two political nonentities are stuck in the political quagmire of Vietnam.
So the moral argument disappears into a colonial quagmire.
One facet of this tragedy is the absence of visionary leadership capable of leading humanity out of its quagmire.
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
Was it not better to quash all emotions entirely, the better to avoid the quagmire of feelings? Seminary Boy
Ring Number Three: The [EU] European Union, Germany, [NATO] the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and all European interests, in the [21st] Century, which means the rapid withdrawal of all offensive military European Forces from the Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula/Hindu Cush, with out being dragged into yet another quagmire. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
There are few roads, and some of these are impassable quagmires in the rainy season.
This quagmire is the legacy of the WORST PRESIDENT EVER. 10/22/2005
Both novels focus on the desolation of a family trapped in the quagmire of poverty, victimization, and oppression in the Harlem ghetto.
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
It is bogged down in a quagmire, and its credibility has been undermined internationally.
The following is a brief synopsis of the quagmire we would be entering.
Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan Five questions for Obama on Afghan war
George Bush repeated his pledge of noninvolvement last week even as he announced what amounted to a new military intervention in Iraq -- one that ran a distinct risk of drawing the United States into another quagmire. A Lifeline In Iraq
Spain was plunged deeper into the economic quagmire yesterday after its central bank predicted that growth would grind to a halt in the third quarter. Times, Sunday Times
About the other candidates, he said, excuse me, he was -- you know that Steve Martin thing, excuse me, he was the only major candidate who made the right judgment, and said, don't tell me this guy can't deal with national security when the Bush people and some of the Democrat candidates supported him in getting us into what he calls a quagmire, that's a Vietnam phrase. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2003
The fact that every club Harry has ever been in charge of – Bournemouth, West Ham, Southampton, Pompey – has stumbled into a financial quagmire after he left is actually the surest indication there could possibly be of the canniness of his stewardship. For Steve Claridge, setting the team upright is a vertical challenge
So the war in Afghanistan must be gradually downshifted to the Left's pre-Iraq take on it: the "improvident" "quagmire" that "really solves nothing" and has only (as Obama said of the Bush approach) "given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.' National Review Online
Regardless of what you think about the job (temporary, contractually a quagmire, and possibly vague in its mission) or the campaign (missing some basic social media fundamentals, mysterious in its process, depersonalized), the gimick of the search has splash landed as one of the top 10 topics we wine bloggers talk about. A Summer of Social Media in Wine « California Life: Better Than Happy Hour
The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire.
Wartah" = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the "Semitic" (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident. Arabian nights. English
The natural extension of his work on the genetics of pigmentation led him into a study of piebald mice, this turned out to be a quagmire.
He's getting caught up in his own controversy, situating himself in an ethical quagmire he might not be able to escape from.
But there are a string of easy measures which those of us who are in the red can still take to escape the debt quagmire. The Sun
But, after two successful years, the 1958 County Show was such a minor disaster on a quagmire site that the society made the best move in its history to its present showground at Withybush.
It may also distract its members from the present quagmire with legends of a storied past or promises of an ecstatic future.
The short detour to a plank bridge had itself become a quagmire, and he edged his way along from tussock to tussock. A DEATH IN TIME
The thick blanket of depression stole around her, enticing her into the depths of a silent quagmire with it's sullen truths.
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
The most consuming mental quagmire is an unresolved personal problem. Christianity Today
The heavy rain soon turned the field into a quagmire.
So individuals who can translate complex terms and navigate the quagmire are in great demand.
Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
Clayton devised the first empirical tests for wisdom, which she defined as the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally — picking up on the work begun by Socrates, around the time the Peloponnesian War began to turn into what we would call a "quagmire. Don’t Forget the Owls
Jane Austen was also writing about dating, but in her day the rules were very clear, whereas now it's a quagmire of bluff and counterbluff. An interview with Helen Fielding by Ashton Applewhite
Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare.
Ping-Ponging back and forth between Alain Juppé, Jacques Chirac, and Lionel Jospin, France raised its VAT by two percentage points, instituted its notorious thirty-five-hour workweek, and sank into the quagmire of prounion, antigrowth rhetoric. RETURN TO PROSPERITY
Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan Five questions for Obama on Afghan war
The material employed by him for this purpose is a kind of agglutinated mud, which he procures from the neighbouring watercourse or quagmire, and somewhat similar to that used by the common house-swallow for constructing _its_ peculiar nest. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
The ground was easy to dig - not so wet as to be a quagmire, but soft enough that the only problems were the odd stone, piece of wire and a couple of boulders.
In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
Your simple behaviour may result a quagmire of errors, mis - directed activity and utter frustration.
The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
Even a decent rainstorm will turn the battlefield into a quagmire. TREASON KEEP
At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
The previous day's pre-winter storm also turned anything that was not paved into a mud-caked quagmire. Army Lt. Chad Ware Wins 2011 Marine Corps Marathon (VIDEO)
She pulled it off in the quagmire at Loch Lomond, but it will certainly be a tougher proposition under the hostile glare of Minneapolis.
On hearing this, off galloped Thorir and his men, but the bogs were a sort of quagmire, wherein the horses stuck fast; and remained wallowing and struggling for the greater part of the day, while the riders 'gave to the devil withal the wandering churl who had so befooled them.' The Book of Romance
The only way of getting the economy out of the quagmire is by lowering public sector wages, said Rachlevsky. Israel's Public Sector, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Hamas, he sadly claimed, had "fallen into the quagmire of surrender," and the leadership had "sold out" to the king: "The leadership of Hamas has committed an aggression against the rights of the Islamic nation by accepting what it called respecting international agreements [a code word for the Oslo process]. Newmatilda.com - Comments
Straw, sand and pine needles have been dumped onto spectator walking areas, creating a smelly quagmire.
Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
Joel, who isn't racing, is wise enough to stay out of the quagmire and cruise the scene at the top of the mountain.
Broad expanses of open sand undulate, sweeping up into steep mountains or falling off into lakes, ponds, and shallow quagmires of quicksand.
The problem is that code developed under different licences all gets mixed together in implementations, producing a legal quagmire.
The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
He regrets that he chose the phrase 'tar baby,' rather than the word 'quagmire.' The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
HEUVEL: John McCain is -- gives new meaning to the term quagmire as a warmonger, has an 82 percent American Conservative Union rating. CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2008
Within a few days, the heaviest rain for 30 years had turned the soil into a quagmire, producing thick mud that clogged up rifles and immobilised tanks.
Officials in Indonesia have warned that if the legal quagmire is not sorted out before Tristan reaches the age of five, he cannot be adopted.
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
It took a different sort of player in ye olden days to survive on what was a quagmire for most of the season. The Sun
The idea of an expanding U.S. commitment, however, is precisely what raises the specter of quagmire for critics, raising ghosts of Vietnam.
The unmetalled road became a quagmire of mud in winter, and a rough, dried up track in summer.
If one slips into the quagmire of the so-called multiparty democratic republic, one cannot escape from upholding these so-called independent institutions. Archive 2006-07-01
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zig-zagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
Unfortunately it seems like the Democratic quagmire is full of emotion and very little reasoning. Obama picks up superdelegate
We should not be guided by how to get the United States out of the quagmire it has so maladroitly manufactured.
If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' ... we're losing yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'If Iraq is key to Bush\'s \'terror war\' ... we\'re losing '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: If Democrats are going to continue to acknowledge Bush\'s \'terror war\ ', they should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his regime\'s wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.' If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' . . . we're losing
Within the space of a single lap the whole course had been turned to a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The rain is sheeting down out of a heavy sky, turning the Knavesmire into more of a quagmire.
As you get to the more complicated and perplexing aspects of physical science you reach a quagmire in having a unified answer.
The article goes on to say one option is to boost the force level by up to 50,000 even though any increase greater than 20 - 30,000 would be "prohibitive" - but it won't deter the Pentagon, on administration orders, from extending tours of duty even longer for forces now there and calling up thousands of reservists and greatly extended National Guard units to get into this quagmire even though it's recognized their presence will only make things worse as well as place an unfair burden on those called up, who've served before, and their families. A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule
When all this takes place in a quagmire it becomes more depressing and difficult for all concerned.
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
This political quagmire does relate closely to the economic situation.
Looking to the future, the legal quagmire of the Internet presents new issues and challenges to both free speech and morality.
This is expected to become a legal quagmire, with landholders' interests already warning of test cases over compulsory purchases.
Welling provides an overview of the key debates in the contemporary field but becomes mired in a definitional quagmire.
But some also think he has awakened to the idea that he needs broad consensus, not least because he doesn't want to be blamed for an Iraq quagmire -- one that may involve a long-term peacekeeping presence in an Arab country -- when the 2004 election rolls around. Hawks, Doves And Dubya
Many developing and poor nations, however, are stuck in a quagmire of debt and impoverishment, no matter how much assistance they receive.
The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
The whole middle east quagmire is as a result of the U.S. policy in backing the most unbending nation in the world. Kennedy says no to joint ticket
Saturday's final was a battle of two very game teams on an absolute quagmire of a pitch.
As the economy recovers, organisations will want to be fleet of foot and may find themselves entrenched in a quagmire of contact clauses and restrictions.
Heavy rain turned the car parks into quagmires to such an extent that cars were banned for Saturday's official qualifying day.
“Wartah” = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the “Semitic” (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The English forces were hopelessly exposed without shelter as torrents of freezing rain lashed down and the ground turned into a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
To call recent storylines a quagmire would cause me to go look up ‘quagmire‘ and make sure I’m using it correctly “a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position”, yeah he’s had a few of those. The Fifth Color – Accentuate the Positive
Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
Or if we had this plan over here then that would address this economic quagmire that we found ourselves in. Christianity Today
The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough.
When we got there it was raining very hard and the patio area was a quagmire.
IT HAS become a public - relations quagmire and China is struggling to escape.
It is a certain bureaucratic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by trucks, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event.
The Balkan situation became a political and military quagmire.
Since the coup, the country has sunk deeper into a quagmire of violence and lawlessness.
The soil raised the planting beds, lifting plant roots out of the quagmire and allowing excess water to drain away.
The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
And this year heavy rain turned most of the course into a quagmire, making conditions even more challenging, causing many slips and falls throughout the afternoon.
Along the way, as you know, we've had a lot of rain here over those days, a number of the trucks got stuck in quagmires because they were going off road to get there, had to dismount some soldiers.
One reason that Britain is in such an economic quagmire is because of decades of unbalanced growth, fuelled by consumption and debt rather than savings and investment. Times, Sunday Times
That campaign didn't exactly become the quagmire critics predicted.
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion.
As the fixed member of the water triplicity, Scorpio also relates to locations where water collects and stagnates: muddy or swampy grounds, bogs, marshes, sedimentary deposits and quagmires.
The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.
But then things take a turn for the worst and you're left wading through a quagmire of dull beats and uninspired guest spots.
In the 19th century, the area was a quagmire with a creek running through it.
But that would lead to a quagmire of legal wrangling. Times, Sunday Times
Roads that have been showered only with a bulldust become soapy quagmires for unwitting drivers, and usually endless landscape is hidden by curtains of mist and rain, reducing visibility to 10 metres.
The quagmire over his "disinvite" points to the inappropriate nature of such an event being held at the Pentagon. TEXAS FAITH: Should the Pentagon have "disinvited" Franklin Graham? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
But ahead lay a quagmire, a demoralising contest in which progress was unmeasurable and victory unattainable.
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
The book emphasizes goal-setting for the high-achieving classroom, but never loses the reader in the quagmire of impersonal theory. A Lesson Plan for Teachers « English Lesson Plans Books « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News
Within the space of a single lap the whole course had been turned to a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by ATVs, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
He who tries to conceal his fault for fear of criticism will sink deeper and deeper in the quagmire of errors.
But it's hard to rush when your feet are claggy with thick black clay mud from trying to drag the mailman, on his weekly run from Cloncurry, out of the sticky quagmire that the main road to Burketown turns into every wet season.
Long before the word quagmire was applied to Vietnam, Mark Twain used it to describe America's Philippines entanglement, which he vigorously opposed. NYT > Home Page
The wind and rain continued unabated, sucking this once respectable vessel further into the quagmire of decay.
This leaves a balance of 47 outstanding problems, ranging from near impassable quagmires of mud and bovine excrement to dangerously collapsed or broken stiles, many illegally obstructed by barbed wire.
In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
Moreover the wildwood toward that side, as it drew toward the water, was dark and dreary and forbidding, running into black thickets standing amidst quagmires, all unlike to the sweet, clean upland ridges, oak begrown and greenswarded, of the parts which lay toward the north, and which she mostly haunted. The Water of the Wondrous Isles

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