Sentence examples for most thorny from inspiring English sources

The Paris treaty left unresolved the most thorny and difficult territorial question, that of Trieste.

This is not surprising: it is the most thorny terrain in politics.

Another major polluter was Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. in Toms River, once Ocean County's biggest employer and now one of New Jersey's most thorny and costly Superfund sites.

The stalemate continued to be caused by one of the most thorny of Iraq's problems: the divided city of Kirkuk in the north.

The highly volatile issues to be resolved include the demarcation of the border separating the nations, the status of citizens in each country and, most thorny of all, oil.

The second most-clicked story of the year tackled one of the most thorny of genetics questions: whether and how variations in intelligence can be traced back to variations in genetics.

The most politically thorny part of its work involved financing.

The range is huge, from the simplest, folksiest, most unpretentious to thorny, abstruse and high-minded.

Until today, the global refugee crisis following conflicts and violence is still one of the most severe and thorny issues that humans are facing.

Indeed, even as Mr. Ryan calls for bipartisan agreement on the most important — and thorny — domestic political issues, his own proposals strike at the heart of Democratic orthodoxy.

Mr Blair can be a little thespian for some tastes, but Mr Johnson always manages to sound like a normal human being, even when dealing with the most complex and thorny issues.