1. 16 A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.

2. 15 He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.

3. 14 Women are caught in a double bind, marginalised in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.

4. 20 The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.