Sentence examples for A knotty question from inspiring English sources

A knotty question to be sure, but not an impossible one.

That may be a legally sensible approach to a knotty question combining genetics, economics and ethics.

If that's a knotty question, so is the broader one we face as a species.

In a second decision issued Wednesday, the court sidestepped a knotty question in a case over California's attempt to cut Medicaid payment rates.

So Maine, like other states, has found itself facing a knotty question: voters have said they wanted medical marijuana available, but how can it be legally distributed?

Which raises a knotty question: How many tokes can a driver take before the ability to control a vehicle is compromised to the point of being a danger on the road?

That's a knottier question.

It is a vexed and knotty question: Is Showalter in some way devaluing the achievements of the greatest American writers by giving equal or greater space to the less talented?

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, launched in 2009 and due to release a fresh trove of results in the coming months, will provide significantly higher sensitivity and resolution - probably putting an end to the knotty question altogether.

In his study, Judge Posner considered how often the Supreme Court had reversed the Ninth Circuit in a way that suggested simple error by the lower court, as opposed to a principled disagreement on a knotty legal question.

But that argument offers us no answers to the knotty question of freedom of expression, an idea to which we all think we subscribe.