In this case, privacy activist groups like "Europe vs. Facebook" that have been a thorn in Mark Zuckerberg's side could rally users to permanently opt of Sponsored Stories en masse.
Harriers' trip to Sunderland will mark only Thorn's 18th day in the job at Aggborough, but this will be the fifth match he has had to prepare for, including one wasted trip to Aldershot for a postponement last Saturday.
Sure enough, there's a dead cow in a tangle of thorn bushes, a single devastating tooth mark on its neck.
FOR somebody who once said her government's unpopularity was down to poor communication not poor policy, Denmark's Helle Thorning-Schmidt chose an odd way to mark Labour Day on May 1st.
As I saw emails come in from other women, I attempted to view their exclamation marks as thorns I was wisely pruning.
Colleen McCullough, author of the best-selling novel The Thorn Birds and the Masters of Rome series, marked her return to the romantic novel with Bittersweet and released Sins of the Flesh, the fifth volume in her Carmine Delmonico crime series.
The allied victory at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, followed by the Peace of Thorn, secured the Polish and Lithuanian borders and marked the emergence of the Polish Lithuanian alliance as a significant force in Europe.
These mark where you'll place the thorns.
WHEN Helle Thorning-Schmidt addressed the European Parliament on July 3rd to mark the end of Denmark's six-month stint in the European Union's presidency, her words fell on many empty seats.
The reasons for this enduring enquiry are exposed at length in A Thorn In Their Side, a book being launched this week to mark the 28th anniversary of her death.
But more than anything else, the senator's aggressive stands on ethics issues have marked him as a star in the making and a thorn in the side of the balky McGreevey administration.
