Longfield accepts that the charity has taken on a thorny task at a critical time, not least because the coalition's austerity drive brings an end to a decade of extra resources for early intervention, including Sure Start.
Yet it is not too soon for a team of engineers from Japan and the United States to begin working on the thorny task of how to dismantle the reactors, four of which are so badly damaged that the plant's operator has said they will be scrapped.
U.S. officials say they would not be abandoning this goal but would instead leave leadership of the thorny task of reconciliation to the Iraqis.
For educators, determining whether a student meets residency requirements can be a thorny task, with rules varying from district to district and state to state.
With the once-a-decade task of redrawing Congressional districts looming, Mr. Ackerman finds himself fighting to preserve his district and seat as the Legislature in Albany prepares to undertake the thorny task of remapping the state's Congressional boundaries.
Mr. Maehara, 48, will face the thorny task of fulfilling Japan's pledge to relocate an American Marine air base on Okinawa, while also facing a diplomatic argument with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
A stream of Americans from Washington institutions have come through Delhi in recent weeks and many of them have been advising the president to brave the thorny task of talking with the Indians for the sake of the rose -- better relations with a country that is the second most populous in the world, with an economy growing at a rate that has averaged more than 6percentt since 1991.
To change the terms of its debt, Dubai needed its creditors to agree, more or less in unison, to reschedule the payments, a thorny task made all the more difficult given the current fear in global banking and the deep reluctance of banks to make concessions.
The proposal spans roughly 300 pages and poses some 1,000 questions for the public to address, reflecting it complexity and the thorny task it presents for regulators.
One of the main problems with integration studies is how to correct the phenotypic integration measures for size, which has been considered a "thorny task" (Armbruster et al., 2014).
