They were pitted against a Barça side who are not vintage and were in a troublesome spell of form, but remain at a higher level that City still aspire to.
To be sure, Trump is in a troublesome state as he prepares to enter office.
Cardiff's three-match winning streak - beating Derby, Crystal Palace and now Reading - is in a normally troublesome month as the club had won just four times in their previous five Novembers.
More participants may have been willing to discuss life expectancy if it were in a less troublesome context, such as lipid or blood pressure screening.
This is a theme that plays well on the right as well as the left – although they sometimes have different ideas about who is in that troublesome "elite".
As their name suggests, the Trainwrecks are a troublesome troupe who, in addition to trying to bully Porcelain's record company into releasing her album, have already gotten into a number of online beefs and brawls with other Twitter fandoms, including the loyal followers of Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, and, most notably, Jeffree Star (who knew that dude was still around?). .
"If you are a judge or a jury who perceives Muslims to be a troublesome element in society, it is likely that these prejudices will have an impact on legal decisions," Ishtiaq argues.
It is rather a troublesome plant in pastures, but its flowers and dark green leaves are certainly handsome, if we are capable of seeing beauty in common things.
Last week, the San Francisco Opera was rehearsing a troublesome passage in "Heart of a Soldier," an opera based on real events on Sept. 11, 2001, which makes its world premiere Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House.
