Sentence examples for a rather thorny from inspiring English sources

The company recently came out of takeover talks with German energy group E.ON., a rather thorny encounter which saw its chief executive replaced by someone whom some analysts said could help steer the company through a takeover.

He called for a pretrial conference Thursday morning to "resolve some rather thorny issues" related to the case, including a possible conflict of interest involving Mr. Kerik's lawyer, Barry H. Berke.

Viewers aren't given a say about their categories, leading to rather thorny questions around who is doing the deciding, and how.

The book's strength is its breadth, and its weakness is its lack of depth on some rather thorny issues.

Both of those efforts, arguably the best war films of the decade, embraced the conventions of their genres as a way to introduce rather thornier subject matter.

In agreement with our result, Aplin in his preliminary study of the cytb [ 65] observed that the taxonomy of the Rattus rattus species group might be rather thornier than suggested by previous studies mostly based on karyotypic or electrophoretic evidences.

"I am drawn to adolescents as subjects because, for a brief time, they necessarily inhabit a land that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather a thorny connective forest that all must stumble through," says Nelson.

His two most visible trips this year, to Africa and to the Indian subcontinent, involved addressing important but long-term issues of economic development, like the social costs of AIDS, rather than thorny policy questions.

A father recently put a thorny question to the authors.

The Unique is a clever solution to a thorny problem.

It is a global disease that a thorny problem in the world medicine.