Sentence examples for terrible tangle from inspiring English sources

The rights of women are in a terrible tangle.

There are an estimated 450,000 of these a year and they are a terrible tangle.

But he got into a terrible tangle and chopped it into the stumps.

During the Kosovo campaign Prescott got into a terrible tangle with a senator, to whom he talked about the war in the "Balklands" and "Kovosa".

If we are ready to really pull at the terrible tangle of racialization, we will have to be prepared to interrogate the whole irrational bundle (black, white, Hispanic and so on).

The Tory leader had managed to get himself in a terrible tangle by arguing that while still supporting the war, he would have voted against it had he known what he knew now.

Riley has had abstract artists as assistants, but she told me that they sometimes confused her work with theirs, "a terrible, painful tangle for all concerned".

"He does get himself into terrible tangles," Pilling said fondly.

Given the terrible tangles of domestic, regional, and geo-strategic politics at stake, the more pertinent reference is the cautionary example of Afghanistan.

Although admiring of Boyle's abilities as a scholar and librarian, Stille acknowledged that the Prefect "made some very questionable business deals, which landed the Vatican in a terrible legal tangle".

The writer thinks this was done to discredit Boyle because the Vatican establishment disliked his attempts to open up the library and modernize it; but it also reflected concern over Boyle's questionable business deals, which have landed the Vatican in a terrible legal tangle.