Sentence examples for a thorny path from inspiring English sources

If she's taking a "thorny path," so be it.

Both Mr Khodorkovsky and Sakharov, an eminent nuclear physicist, chose a thorny path.

He'd imagined a thorny path that led, in the end, to a favorable resolution.

"This is a thorny path," said John D. Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest.

I tentatively use the word "average" because Americans have a tendency to attach themselves to age and developmental expectations, and those can lead us down a thorny path.

Republicans also face a thorny path on this issue, caught between impulses to condemn illegal immigration while also wanting to defend the president.

As a black woman born in 1947, Butler had a particularly thorny path to navigate to literary stardom.

The national study had a long and thorny path.

That's a victory in and of itself, even if it's only the first step down a very long, thorny path of reform.

The history of race in United States continues to be a twisted and thorny path, where we are all always in danger of getting lost.

Some prison reform advocates caution that this is merely the beginning of what could be a long and thorny path to reducing the country's staggering prison population, which has surpassed 2.2 million inmates, nearly 1percentt of the adult population.