Sentence examples for thorny discussions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Protas controls the rights to the dances, and his lawyer is involved in thorny discussions with the board's lawyers about whether the center's dancers can perform and teach Graham's works.

As far back as the early 1980's, the presence of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals in the church was perfectly acceptable to Bishop Spong, who received death threats during his tenure and has also been in middle of thorny discussions on a fixture on rebel-courting television talk shows like "Firing Line" and "The O'Reilly Factor".

It is no wonder many doctors shy away from this thorny discussion.

The Maldives' shark-fishing ban could also give impetus to a thorny discussion in London over an initiative to create the world's largest marine reserve in British territorial waters around the Chagos islands, the Indian Ocean archipelago where the Diego Garcia military base is located.

I don't want to delve into a thorny discussion about the complexities of free speech – as a writer I'm explicitly for it – but a marketing campaign that's founded upon misogyny, homophobia and racism is, in practice, pretty awful.

The Court of Appeal decided it didn't need to wade into this thorny discussion.

We all knew this would be a thorny policy discussion point, and we wanted to work out the language.

Economic cyber-espionage is particularly thorny point of discussion because the US, unlike China, distinguishes between attacks on private industry and more bread and butter political and military espionage.

As lawmakers debate changing the drug laws in the weeks ahead, restoring judicial discretion will be one of the thorniest issues in the discussions.

Far from the reality-show slug-fest of the crowded Republican debates, the Democrats' first presidential match-up offered a textbook example of what a candidates forum can do: provide a clear-eyed discussion of thorny issues and produce winners and losers.

What emerged from the panel at the annual Tulane mergers and acquisitions conference was a wide-ranging discussion of a thorny issue for deal makers.