Sentence examples for it thorny from inspiring English sources

As a task, he finds it thorny, messy, perhaps impossible and deeply tantalizing.

As austerity tightens its thorny grip, it promises to be a tough 12 months.

Making it thornier is that two prominent fellow Republicans in Michigan — Gov. Rick Snyder, a Romney supporter, and Daniel F. Akerson, the chief executive of General Motors — say that thousands of jobs might have been lost had President Obama followed the path that Mr. Romney favored: a managed bankruptcy dependent on private financing.

What makes it especially thorny, Dawn said, is that "independence starts in middle school, and it's not the cool thing to be with your parents a lot.

While it avoids thorny political issues like unification, the agreement states there is only one undivided China, but it also allows Taipei and Beijing to interpret the notion of "one China" as they see fit.

It was thorny (some might say a slog), but worthy of our better, non-August selves.

It incorporated thorny jazz textures, folk songs, fierce rock rhythms and performance-art set pieces.

The debate around hyperandrogenism is as poignant as it is thorny.

But gaining on another candidate's misfortunes, particularly when it involves thorny accusations of infidelity, is tricky business.

It is thorny with problems of feudal law and custom that are largely untranslatable into modern idiom.

Deciding who should pay for them when their parents split up is to put it mildly a thorny political issue.