Sentence examples for thorny path from inspiring English sources

If she's taking a "thorny path," so be it.

The national study had a long and thorny path.

Both Mr Khodorkovsky and Sakharov, an eminent nuclear physicist, chose a thorny path.

He'd imagined a thorny path that led, in the end, to a favorable resolution.

To believers, no journey — even the thorny path to immigration reform — is beyond St. Toribio's powers.

"This is a thorny path," said John D. Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest.

The authors also discussed their thorny paths to publication.

It's a thorny, boggy path, on which attributes like honesty and sincerity are indispensable (just ask James Frey) but also insufficient (just ask everyone else).

Analysts aren't soothsaying a thorny regulatory path for the companies, because most of their customers do not overlap and competing services from the likes of telecom giant BT continue to emerge.

Other members of the group, both Republicans and Democrats, were frustrated by Mr. Labrador's departure in the final hours of the negotiations, after the group had reached agreement on many thorny issues, including a path to legal status for 11 million immigrants here illegally.

She found paths through thorny dilemmas, hope in situations others sought to abandon.