The morning after the Scottish referendum, Cameron sought to wrong-foot his opponents with his surprise move to settle that vexatious issue with his EVEL pledge.
He is also a reminder, as the man who split the Conservative Party in two, that British politics could yet crack over the vexatious issue of Britain in and out of Europe.
The vexatious issue of bus parking, which stirred strong opposition last year when the Port Authority identified an area below the memorial as a possible garage, has been resolved for now by assigning 60 bus spaces to the B3 level under the PATH concourse and 20 spaces to the B3 level under Liberty Park.
He's also a lay member of the Press Complaints Commission, well briefed on the vexatious issues of regulation.
The most vexatious issues – intrinsically asking what "independence" means in a quangoid Britain where the same cast of great and good characters, retired judges, retired permanent secretaries, Oxbridge dignitaries, shift sweetly from one padded committee seat to the next – weren't addressed.
For now the vexatious issues of legacy and the continuing sale of school sports fields can wait just a little bit.
With that, some of the most vexatious issues in land-use regulation will be open for new debate: Do zoning and landmarks laws pose special hardships for religious institutions?
He concludes that, "ultimately we must face some vexatious issues of social justice" that have arisen in Europe and which will require the same sort of pragmatic social management they have developed.
The situation confronts Lebanese leaders with a vexatious choice.
"Having it all" is such a vexatious phrase anyway, implying greed instead of possibility.
'It is a vexatious piece of litigation, which will be fully resisted,' Maxwell said.
