Sentence examples for thorny state from inspiring English sources

But several factors make Iowa a particularly thorny state for Mr McCain.

The thorniest question states face, perhaps, is how to value the excess energy that is sold back to utilities — an issue dogging efforts to encourage the use of solar power and incorporate it into the power grid.

Bankruptcy raises thorny issues about state sovereignty.

An equally thorny question involves state jurisdiction.

The court order has posed an exceptionally thorny problem for state officials, aggravating both political and policy differences.

If elected, our American candidate will, like an absolute monarch, resolve the thorniest problems of state simply by exerting his (or her!) will.

He relishes policy talk and is rarely too busy to furnish a deliberate, thoughtful response to thorny issues like the state's budget deficit or party primaries.

He has been called Teflon Terry and Lord Fix-ithethe ultimate mandarin called in by successive governments to help sort out thorny issues from the state of British broadcasting to freedom of information and hunting with dogs.

Mr. Pataki, who recently revealed his vision of a network of Indian-owned gambling parlors in the aging resort areas of the Catskill Mountains, has apparently decided that the gambling business will solve a lot of the state's thornier problems in the short term.

The current mayor, C. Ray Nagin, had a sometimes thorny relationship with federal and state officials, and many voters had grown to feel that his outsider approach was not serving the city.

This was the day of the "extraordinary session" of the State Legislature that Gov. George E. Pataki convened to urge lawmakers to resolve, once and for all, the thorny question of how the state distributes education aid.