On Friday, he also cleared up a thorny off-field problem when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Judge Baum has also put off thorny issue of deciding money owed to minority owner and head coach Wayne Gretzky.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln's decision to oppose the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act, two years after supporting it, seemed at the time to take a thorny topic off the electoral table for 2010.
WASHINGTON — Facing the gravest economic crisis in decades, the leaders of 20 countries agreed Saturday to work together to revive their economies, but they put off thornier decisions about how to overhaul financial regulations until next year, providing a serious early challenge for the Obama administration.
We picked off the thorny leaves, dipped them in oil, and crunched on the white parts; near the heart it was all edible.
Reputed shareholder activist Carl Icahn, for instance, devotes numerous blog posts to his thoughts on corporate governance, while Dubai construction magnate Khalaf Al Habtoor sounds off on thorny issues like the threat of Iran on his site, AlShindagah.com.
Chop about 1 to 1 1/2 inches (2.5 to 3.8 cm) off the top of the artichoke, or you can use kitchen shears to trim off the thorny edges of the leaves if you prefer.
With plans for a six-year, $450 billion transportation bill hung up over the question of how to pay for it, the Obama administration said Wednesday that it wanted to put off the thorniest questions for now.
It would have been easy for Mr. Holm to sentimentalize Gould by softening this thorny bohemian character who lived off handouts and made grandiose literary claims into a dreamy-eyed holy man and tragic misfit.
Unable to realise this ambitious project, he instead decided to plant a bitter almond hedge to keep the "black stinking dogs" out of his settlement, accompanied by brambles and thorny bushes designed to ward off this "savage set, living without conscience".
