To the medical profession, the illness presented a vexing conundrum, not least because its gravest outcome was suicide.
Mr. Assad's crackdown, which has killed at least 6,000 civilians, has seized international attention and presented a vexing moral dilemma about intervention.
Instead, said Minnesota's Ehresmann, public health agencies often are confronted with vexing balancing acts.
But the suicide bombings at a hotel, coming just six weeks after suspected operatives or affiliates of Al Qaeda killed more than 190 people at a resort in Bali, presented intelligence officials with yet another set of vexing problems.
The youth safety issue has presented numerous school chiefs here a vexing paradox.
"Speciesism" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue, and the concept, at first blush high-minded, presents vexing logical problems.
"I have some concerns about our ability to deal with the most vexing of the issues presented by the recent crisis: the issue of institutions that are considered 'too big to fail,'" Fisher said in his prepared remarks.
Yet, at the same time, I have some concerns about our ability to deal with the most vexing of the issues presented by the recent crisis: the issue of institutions that are considered "too big to fail" (or, if you prefer the acronym that has become commonplace, TBTF).
(The issue is, in fact, vexed; for insightful presentations of views rivaling that presented here, see Sleigh 1990 or Cover and Hawthorne 1999).
What is vexing is that disability sexuality is always presented in the mainstream as an "issue".
