It was the fact that these were all cases for which no clear-cut solution was to be found either in the textbooks or the canons of professional practice.

He still doesn't pretend to have ultimate, clear-cut solutions; he knows he's ranting, spitting in the wind.

His initial high hopes of a clear-cut solution to the Wetherby murder were plummeting in direct relation to his blood sugar.

The Potter Box does not offer a single, clear-cut solution to ethical dilemmas.

There is no clear-cut solution about the obesity.

What seems reasonably certain is that the initiative is now passing from outside powers, long frustrated in their efforts to achieve diplomatic compromise, to Balkan leaders impatient for clear-cut military solutions.

The film presents no clear-cut solutions, but a city councilman who believes that government can help people works within an imperfect system to try to get services for his community.

"I thought it had to become impossible to give a fast, easy, clear-cut solution, because no solution of this sort could accord with the reality," he wrote in his 1989 autobiography, "Warrior."

But when the proposals are complicated or do not suggest a clear-cut solution, they go to public review.

On an Easter weekend, women with different views about abortion are involved in a violent confrontation and realize that with an issue so complex there can be no clear-cut solution.