Sentence examples for thorny elements from inspiring English sources

Nor is there shame in contemplating the thorny elements that will turn principle into practice.

Part eulogy and part apologia, Heinrich's painstaking effort to reconstruct his clan's "journey through a century of biology" obliges him to grapple with the thorny human element that's bound up in his intellectual heritage, giving a whole new meaning to the proposition that biology is destiny.

Mr. Salonen plans to compose full time when he leaves the orchestra, and he is certainly developing happily as a composer; into an oeuvre that has always been smart and sometimes thorny are creeping elements of ease, fluidity and fun.

Then there is the thorny question combining all of these elements, the one that requires the most advanced form of urban reckoning: Can I carry it on the subway?

The issue was a thorny one for the Bush administration, dividing the key elements of the coalition it brought together to win the election in 2004.

Readers who love thorny family sagas and stories that closely interweave realism with elements of fantasy.

More than that, A Naked Singularity poses moral questions far more thorny and vexing than most, and to some extent the disparate, centrifugal elements of the plot are tethered to one question.

The ruling addresses the thorny problem for the Patent and Trademark Office of how to decide whether applicants have combined known elements to make a new discovery.

Its most controversial elements are probably yet to emerge, with a policing white paper to tackle the thorny issue of local police accountability expected to be published shortly.

Of all the elements of a health care bill that the Senate and House will have to reconcile, one of the thorniest is the issue of the so-called employer mandate.

At least one element of the bill, a scheme to admit agricultural workers on a temporary basis, has proved especially thorny to negotiate.