Sentence examples for thorny spot from inspiring English sources

The extradition request could put Washington in a thorny spot.

Still, it was a thorny situation.

Which brings up a thorny point.

Authors' response: This is a very interesting and thorny point.

Here and there you spot a thorny acacia.

The latter include: (i) the sequence and annotation files for little skate and its relatives the thorny skate (Amblyoraja radiata) (21), and ocellate spot skate (Okamejei kenojei; also known as Raja porosa) (22); and (ii) databases containing mitochondrial features from A. radiata and O. kenojei and the 13 mitochondria protein families derived from UniProtKB for homology searches using SkateBLAST.

Phrases like that illustrate both the author's power as a writer and her own blind spot, some unchecked impulse to indulge in thorny syntax and extraneous flourishes.

In one spot, you're surrounded by low, scrubby desert pocked with thorny bushes.

A numinous presence seems to seep from the hill that will one day be the site of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline, a spot that for Aeneas is silvestribus horrida dumis, bristling with thorny thickets.

Other common names for this species include black spotted ray, rough-skinned ray, roughback stingaree, Solander's ray, and thorny ray.

More significantly, while 90% of security breaches are copycat crimes that can be spotted easily, the remaining 10% adopt approaches that are wholly novel and therefore exceedingly difficult to detect.That thorny 10%—amounting potentially to thousands of attacks a year at a given location is what keeps network-security managers awake at night.