Sentence examples for increasingly thorny from inspiring English sources

But the relationship between the two parties has become increasingly thorny, and his position trickier.

Mr. Obama must decide by Monday whether he will include those items — a move that becomes increasingly thorny as the standoff over Mr. Snowden continues.

The approach is aimed at using light to improve timing, an increasingly thorny challenge for the makers of the largest and most powerful silicon chips.

Th e creditworthiness of entire countries has become increasingly thorny as governments around the world face tough choices about how much money to borrow (or print) to secure their economies.

Even so, finding ways to contain anti-social acts in such a system -- one that by its very design permits anonymous behavior -- without compromising its openness is proving increasingly thorny for network designers, law enforcement officials and civil libertarians.

In an attempt to shake off this cosy reputation - or so the standard line has it - she has tackled increasingly thorny issues including lesbianism, broken families and adoption, the mood growing darker with each novel.

Restaurants, universities and other public spaces, increasingly conscious of thorny issues around gender and bathrooms, are also more likely to have unisex toilets.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the thorniest problem -- at least as difficult as coordinating the private charities -- involves the relationship between private philanthropy and the big sums of money promised by the federal government.

But what was born of a pure, almost innocent, and deeply personal love for the charms of the region soon became inextricably bound up in much thornier, darker, and increasingly dire issues of rapid, reckless industrialisation and its dangerous and tragic encroachment on the natural environments animals once called home.

But what was born of a pure, almost innocent, and deeply personal love for the charms of the region soon became inextricably bound up in much thornier, darker, and increasingly dire issues of rapid, reckless industrialization and its dangerous and tragic encroachment on the natural environments animals once called home.

But Mr. Andriessen's accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop.