Sentence examples for thorny cases from inspiring English sources

In thorny cases, a critic or reporter can extenuate a passage outside of quotation marks.

Ann-Jane Levinson (she preferred A. J). was executive director of Concern for Dying for 11 years beginning in 1976, a period in which thorny cases like that of Karen Ann Quinlan, who spent years on life support equipment, provoked deep questioning about how people die.

Tornadoes, the deadliest weather disaster to hit the country this year, present a particularly thorny case.

But it is as much the second lawyer, William Jeffress Jr., who offers clues about how the thorny case will proceed.

Mr. Hicks, though, is also a special, and especially thorny, case -- a citizen of one of the United States' closest allies.

In Mr. Lien, the committee found a man in harmony with the government on the longstanding, thorny case of Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway territory.

Classmates remembered him wandering in late for a study group and rapidly rattling off solutions to a thorny case before dashing off to the water.

The Nile Hilton Incident (Sweden. Dir: Tarik Saleh) Just before the 2011 revolution, a Cairo cop takes on the thorny case of a murdered singer.

Chief Justice Roberts began his umpiring duties for the Supreme Court on Monday, and by Wednesday he was facing his first thorny case, concerning doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon.

It is also a thorny case that in some ways echoes suits brought against the tobacco industry and settlements paid to New York workers who developed respiratory illnesses after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lawyers and debt collectors say these are some of the thorniest cases in the attorney general's portfolio because of the wrenching issues they raise.