Sentence examples for facing a thorny from inspiring English sources

Facing a thorny election in 2001, John Howard, Mr Abbott's predecessor as Liberal prime minister, opened the offshore detention camps in Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

Indeed, when facing a thorny political issue or weighty public policy debate, Mr. Pataki's way, not unfamiliar to other elected leaders, has often been to use reticence, adopt some careful nuance or remain relatively quiet.

Thus, we are facing a thorny problem threatening many lives, and it seems that the difficulties of curing cancer are out of our grasp.

But he faces a thorny quandary.

But when it comes to policing misleading content about vaccinations, the site faces a thorny challenge.

He now faces a thorny ethical challenge for the company, one that could damage its financial position and reputation.

President-elect Vladimir Putin faces a thorny dilemma: He is averse to change, but now faces a political landscape that demands it.

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

The prime minister now faces a thorny dilemma: how to remain dignified alongside her desire to build an economic relationship with the US that can help Britain navigate its post-Brexit journey.

But universities face a thorny situation in which they must threaten discipline for disruptive conduct, including speech that forecloses other speech, while also protecting student speech that protests other speech.

Despite Mr. Colao's calibrated tinkering, Vodafone, like its other rivals, Telefónica, France Télécom and Deutsche Telekom, faces a thorny predicament that restructuring or the flight into lower-cost, emerging markets cannot overcome: The company's mainstay, its revenue from voice calls, is falling faster than mobile data revenue is growing.