Sentence examples for thorny at from inspiring English sources

Today's acknowledgment of Stalin's personal culpability over the Katyn massacre comes amid a cautious thaw between Moscow and Warsaw, whose recent relations have been thorny at best.

If that, too, was a specter raised by Mr. Powell back in 1968, he must be given some responsibility for making it a prospect too thorny, at least in this election, for the mainstream politicians of our age to engage.

The issues are not much less thorny at Arkansas these days, as the football coach Bobby Petrino's fate is still being mulled after he crashed his reputation along with his motorcycle.

Marie's relationship with her children, though slightly idealized, is thorny at times, as they compete for her attention, a grown-up touch contributed by the star, who apparently has huge stores of maternal warmth and patience.

The issue is one of the thorniest at the negotiations and one of the main reasons the last round of talks here broke up without agreement on 10 November despite intense bargaining by ministers including the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

His is a particularly difficult loss for the bank, according to people briefed on the matter, because he was widely considered to be skilled at tackling thorny problems at a time when the bank has been faulted over weak oversight in places.

The notion of forcing Paterno to step aside is a thorny one at Penn State.

The registration process has been a thorny problem at this camp.

"People would bring particularly thorny problems at their companies and the group would try to brainstorm solutions".

The new liquidity ratio, which was conceived by an international grouping of bank regulators soon after the crisis, addresses a thorny dilemma at the heart of modern banking.

America's War on Terror is the thorny issue at stake here in a film which uses its various plot strands to take on American foreign policy, a celebrity-obsessed media and the apathy of youth in American society.