Sentence examples for thorny area from inspiring English sources

The international effort to restrict the proliferation of sensitive military technologies is one particularly thorny area that has long roiled Sino-American relations.

Standoffs over media rights have become more commonplace in recent years, although the issue more usually relates to the thorny area of digital media rights exploitation.

As someone with Jewish roots, Baddiel, 45, says he was compelled to tackle the potentially thorny area in his first feature-length film because he wanted to provide an antidote to today's hypersensitive society.

One thorny area that the court did clear up by invalidating the Defense of Marriage Act was what to do with same-sex couples in which one partner is foreign-born.

Over and above (or often instead of) enhancing equality of outcome and thus opportunity, plenty of other ideas are also in the air, including in relation to the admissions policies of the top universities and the whole thorny area of internships.

Another thorny area for the newly-launched free school project will be the relationship between publicly-funded free schools and private companies who might want to manage them for a fee.

Republicans have already criticized Mr. Obama's executive actions as big-government overreach, and are likely to use the controversies to further their case, especially as the White House turns to thorny areas, like greenhouse-gas emissions.

One irony of the pernicious taboo on "politicizing" a tragedy is that in some especially thorny areas of policy — like, for instance, gun control — it is only a tragedy that can summon the political momentum for change.

"It's hard to find information you're interested in if it's not well indexed," said Dr. Cliff Kottman, vice president and chief scientist at the Open GIS Consortium, a group that promotes the use of geographic information online, "and one of the thorniest areas of indexing is by space or neighborhood.

But words like informal, illicit, and underground have long been used to describe transactions that exist in a thorny gray area: not fully legal, but not explicitly harmful either.

Akin's movies, like the works of a major novelist, tend to seek out those thorny, intractable areas of private experience where politics is never going to gain more than a crumbling foothold.