Sentence examples for this knotty problem from inspiring English sources

Even as he beefs up America's aid to Syrian rebels, President Barack Obama doesn't appear eager to engage in this knotty problem.

I asked Dr. Carol C. Gould, a distinguished professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, for her thoughts on this knotty problem.

The bank drew up a fresh index to get around the knotty problem of defining "urban"; this new measure puts the world's city-dwelling population at about 47% in 2000.

Updated at 9.37pm BST 8.47pm BST A novel Peace Prize idea This is interesting - European leaders have apparently been considering the knotty problem of who should pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in December.

Pope Paul still has to deal with the knotty problem of birth control.

Most worrying, the budget ignores the knotty problem of Italy's feeble growth.

The article did not address the knotty problem of maintaining the electrical turbines, perched as they are 270 feet above the water line.

Yet Mr. McDermott acknowledged the knotty problem of how to finance Newark and a county justice system occupied mainly with Essex's urban centers.

Hired a year ago from a digital advertising firm to head Time Inc., Time Warner's magazine behemoth, Ms. Lang was optimistically viewed as an out-of-the-box answer to the knotty problem of making a print company dance in a digital era.

No, the main and most affecting parallel is how these two productions were confronting the knotty problem of being both traditional and up to date in a culture that has no tone to call its own.

McCarthy seems uninterested in such issues, but Wallace found them fascinating, and the detailed analysis he offered will surely be required reading by those who henceforth undertake a serious study of the knotty problem of fatalism.