1.   Federal disinvestment posed a serious dilemma for distressed cities.

2.   Nelson Mandela faces a serious dilemma, after appeals it will be his government that must decide whether or not to commute sentence.

3.   But there are serious ethical dilemmas involved.

4.   Deploying lawyers, spokesmen and campaign managers this way may satisfy the appetite to fight, but not the responsibility to reconcile a serious national dilemma.

5.   Should events conspire to bring Shammgod into the Clipper fold, it could present a serious dilemma for broadcast great Ralph Lawler.

6.   The incentives can create serious ethical dilemmas for physicians, argue two Harvard School of Public Health researchers in an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.

7.   This is a serious dilemma.

8.   Too big and too skilled to pass up yet cloaked in too much uncertainty to be a sure thing, Yao presents teams with a serious dilemma.

9.   Widespread fraud would present international election monitors with a serious dilemma.

10.   He predicted there would be serious international dilemmas in the coming year that will separate him from the pack.