Possessives

• situation: In more up-to-date parlance, it is being submerged in a ' no-win ' situation.

Modifies a noun

• no-fee: All the major law firms in the area take personal injury cases on a no-win no-fee basis.

• situation: The girl with bulimia is in a no-win situation.

• basis: All the major law firms in the area take personal injury cases on a no-win no-fee basis.

• proposition: For example choose a no-win proposition exposures production risks tort filings fell.

• scenario: This no-win scenario would be a terrible moral dilemma for any democratically elected leader.

• position: Under the heel of government But the BBC hierarchy finds itself in a no-win position.