The acacia trees here are just four years old, waist high and thorny.
At the edge of the road he stumbled, fell, and crawled into an area of high grasses and thorny weeds.
The big cities with the highest levels of black poverty, underserved public schools, and high crime, as well as thorny issues with police violence such as Baltimore and Milwaukee, have long been run by Democrats, in most cases, Black Democrats.
The range is huge, from the simplest, folksiest, most unpretentious to thorny, abstruse and high-minded.
It was talk like this that moved the Council to its first high-level debate on the thorny subject of when it has the right to intervene to save citizens, even if that means intruding on national sovereignty.
At the site where she was found, the tangled and thorny branches stretch so high and thick that they form a kind of impenetrable wall.
Land-use issues in Westchester can be thorny, with emotions running high, but even at late night meetings with planning and zoning boards, Mr. Dittelman always remained calm and courteous, said Henry M. Hocherman, a friend and colleague.
Among the thorniest issues are comparatively high prices, shabby infrastructure and poor service.
Equity issues, meaning who should pay for higher energy or adaptation costs, are thorny.
There are both handheld and long-handled versions, with the long-handled style allowing you to get closer to thorny bushes or reach higher branches.
