Sentence examples for thorny items from inspiring English sources
A handful of thorny items were still on the table, including proposed free-agency restrictions on teams that pay the luxury tax.
He is a thorny item, a one-masterpiece master, but a master nevertheless.
The breakdown came after the parties resolved the second-thorniest item — a new luxury-tax formula.
But the talks collapsed as soon as they turned their attention back to the thorniest item: division of league revenue.
Which brings up a thorny point.
Authors' response: This is a very interesting and thorny point.
This thorny verity regarding easily obtained birthday items reaches its dramatic conclusion when Ms. Dunham turns to a whiteboard and scrawls, "Whither gift soap?" A cleareyed Malcolm Gladwell discusses the American penchant for reducing all activity to a moral lesson that can be imparted through the powerful cocktail of stage presence and rear-screen projection.
It points out potential deductions, red-flags potential audit items and accurately crunches thorny depreciation calculations, all while incorporating a flurry of pesky tax-law tweaks.
Mr. Obama must decide by Monday whether he will include those items — a move that becomes increasingly thorny as the standoff over Mr. Snowden continues.
One of the more interesting new items helps slow-cooking fans address a thorny issue.
Erik Hagerman, creative director for Walmart.com, said the company was in a particularly thorny position, because it must determine a way to tell users how to find some 500,000 items on the site quickly and simply, without using so many graphics and so much text that the site slows down.
