Sentence examples for thorny debates from inspiring English sources

Others, however, said that although they were impatient to hear specific ideas, Mr. Bloomberg was shrewd to delay publicly discussing them because in New York City, proposals for sweeping education reform always devolve into thorny debates.

The wily 6-year-old Simmental has eluded capture by the authorities since escaping from her farm in May, rooting around in the relative wilds of the Bavarian forest and providing a welcome distraction from thorny debates over euro zone policy and other issues of national and international import.

In the age of electricity, these bans on fire (kindling and extinguishing, respectively) have generated all sorts of thorny debates over interpretation.

Innovations in nursing education draw thorny debates on potential jeopardy in the quality, safety, and efficacy of nurse graduates.

But on Friday night, he stepped squarely into the thorny debate.

At its heart, that's the thorny debate that prevents effective measures being enacted to prevent killings like those in Colorado.

This dark situation underlies the thorny debate over the world's responsibilities to the millions of people likely to be displaced by climate change.

But the air-quality complaints have landed the 777 in the middle of a long-running and thorny debate over just how safe airplane air is.

It may not be fair to connect the historically thorny debate over immigration reform and issues of employment discrimination to the horrific and fatal events of this weekend in Greenwich Village.

As a result, the two bills will have to be reconciled in a negotiation that will again feature a thorny debate about the balance between national security and civil liberties.

Glover is clearly unafraid to wade into the thorny debate that has seen figures such as Anna Ford, Selina Scott and Lady Bakewell accuse broadcasters of banishing older women from the small screen.