Sentence examples for past problematic from inspiring English sources

Tony Blair's favourite technique was just to charm his way past problematic questions.

Factors which have been reported to increase the risk of adverse psychological outcomes for parents following a perinatal death include: perceived inadequate social support, traumatic circumstances surrounding the death, difficulties in coping with a crisis in the past, problematic relationships in the nuclear family and the presence of other life crises.

Further analysis among those who said that they had not drunk at all in the previous year (Q1, n = 38: 15% of total sample) showed that nearly all (97%: n = 37) had been in prison before, perhaps suggesting abstinence in response to past problematic drinking and possibly linked with crime.

And the Turks' relationship with their Ottoman past is problematic.

Your dismissal of a link between these attacks and France's Vichy past is problematic.

Judge Pickering's racist past, his problematic present and his apparent difficulties with the truth have not been enough to persuade the president to reel in this nomination.

And almost every day, local papers have carried a new source of embarrassment, leading some to comment that Senator Kennedy may finally have a rival with a past as problematic as his own.

There are four steps that help him identify and move past the problematic beliefs, steps that liberate his leadership power and move him toward the formation of collaborative teams that achieve breakthrough results.

Also in November, Daily Beast writer Ira Madison wrote a piece about Oldman's "dark past," describing problematic comments the actor had made.

Accepting an invitation from Floyd, who has had domestic abuse issues against women in the past, looks problematic to some people.

Latin American cultural theorist Carlos J. Alonso, drawing on Freudian theory, argues that the novel is essentially a therapeutic device, designed to help move Latin America past its problematic experience of modernity.