Sentence examples for knotty for from inspiring English sources

It's especially knotty for poor parents who don't have computers, easy transportation or time to be involved in their child's school.

She acknowledges that her least complicated dishes — the "quite simple" stewed octopus with butter beans or lamb chops with chimichurri to which you "barely do a thing" — could be daunting (her word is "knotty") for the home cook.

If the question proves too knotty for an off-the-cuff answer -- inheritance problems often fall into this category -- the four main scholars gather on Thursday afternoons to hammer out the response.

Taking the narrative well beyond the boundaries of Camus' source material, the film's writer-director, David Oelhoffen reveals a rich back story for Daru, and he comes up with a cleverly knotty reason for Mohammed's arrest.

The Enron debacle is building into a set of knotty problems for Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that audited Enron's books for more than a decade.

But violent behavior presents a particularly knotty problem for families.

Randall and Murdock also have properly knotty reasons for being unsure about a future together.

On Monday a coalition of TV broadcasters put forward a particularly knotty plan for next spring.

And the strikes in Germany raise especially knotty problems for the company, which has ambitious expansion plans there.

These discussions will be far from simple, throwing up knotty questions – for example, who pays the pensions of 2,700 current and retired British EU officials.

The strike creates an especially knotty problem for Mr. Maduro, who calls himself the worker president and frequently points to his past as a union leader in the Caracas transit system.