Dilemma example sentences

How were these ideal qualities defined? In many novels written during the colonial period, the ideal person successfully deals with one of the central dilemmas faced by colonial subjects: how to be modern without rejecting tradition, how to accept ideas coming from the West without losing one's identity.The instructions were so arranged that the teacher was faced with a dilemma — should s/he continue shocks even when they were increasingly painful? The experimenter kept on motivating the teacher to continue.This dilemma invites us to think hard about the outcomes of democracy.So we face a dilemma: democracy is seen to be good in principle, but felt to be not so good in its practice.This was the Triffin Dilemma after Robert Triffin, the main critic of the Bretton Woods system.Prisoner's Dilemma Game, which is a two person game in which both parties are faced with cooperation or competition, and depending upon their choices both can win or lose, is often used to study cooperation or competition.