Sentence examples for one thorny from inspiring English sources

One thorny issue facing Mr. Romney ahead of the primary in Michigan on Tuesday is his opposition to the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler.

One thorny issue for Mr. Thompson was the revelation in financial disclosures that at least 37 BBC employees were earning more than the prime minister.

One thorny matter concerns Equitas, a reinsurer set up to deal with the pre-1993 liabilities of Lloyd's, the London insurance market.

One thorny question is whether new statutory duties will soon be required, to make plain that reporting abuse is not a difficult option but a professional obligation.

One thorny area that the court did clear up by invalidating the Defense of Marriage Act was what to do with same-sex couples in which one partner is foreign-born.

One thorny issue in the closing of Tiger is related to Mr. Robertson's incentive fees, which have been kept offshore where they compound tax-free until the funds are repatriated, according to a source.

Laptop computers, for one, present thorny problems for discount retailers because they are costly, difficult to display and to sell and are easy targets for thieves.

And efforts to close the regulatory gap must overcome one particularly thorny issue: some uncertified companies accused of selling counterfeit drugs are owned by the government itself.

The international effort to restrict the proliferation of sensitive military technologies is one particularly thorny area that has long roiled Sino-American relations.

Mr. Masinter said one potentially thorny issue in the Target suit was whether phone services offered by online merchants were suitable substitutions for the Web site when the site did not work well for technologies like screen-reading software.

And where to bury the corpses has now become one more thorny issue for the international mission in Bosnia to grapple with as it tries to reconstruct a divided country without fully governing it.