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- This has created a catch 22 situation for Baseball NT whereby it understands that by developing home-grown talent, there is a good possibility these players will be lost to southern leagues, unlikely to return to the Northern Territory.
- Meeks also indicated that users wouldn't embrace desktop Linux until there is a wider range of applications and developers won't create that wider range of applications until there are more users, a classic Catch-22 situation.
- This is a catch 22 situation holding up the commencement of construction.
- Even journalists in Pittsburgh felt that the price was high, and with Bettis being a pending free agent in 1997 with the expiration of his rookie contract put the Steelers into a catch-22 situation, as the trade was either going to be for naught if Bettis struggled, or with the Steelers up against the salary cap too expensive to retain Bettis if he was successful.
- In 2016, Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, said the criteria for claiming benefits in the UK were "a , "Catch-22" situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary".
- The Imperial Japanese Navy was caught in a Catch-22 situation, since American airpower from Henderson Field denied the Japanese the use of slow cargo ships.
- However, citizens have been unable to demonstrate standing because the NSA has argued successfully that the evidence needed for that task must remain secret, thus creating a Catch-22 situation.
- Inspired by the Joseph Heller novel, the organisation's name refers to the catch-22 situation faced by many of the people with whom it works.
- Due to the delay Iceland found itself caught in a classic catch-22 situation, loans from other countries could not be secured until the IMF program had been approved.
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