Sentence examples for thorny when from inspiring English sources

"It's a complicated world we live in," Scott said, and always thorny when it comes to Israelis and international sport.

But the casting question is especially thorny when Dumont works with people who are disabled or who have learning difficulties, as in P'tit Quinquin.

(Do you pay a contractor per day of work or per project? Do you pay salespeople by the hour or on commission?) It becomes particularly thorny when the agent knows a lot more about his job than the principal.

Even so, the issues were contemporary and United's situation could have become thorny when Carrick attempted a challenge inside the area after 13 minutes and connected with Makoto Hasebe instead of the ball.

Goffman said a future Season 1 episode addresses, somewhat in passing, the Second Amendment -- the right to bear arms -- and in previous episodes, the characters have discussed race, slavery and other thorny topics that don't seem quite as thorny when Ichabod Crane brings them up.

However, militancy never went down well and the issue became thornier when Kaká, a devout Christian who didn't shy away from talking about God and faith, became Brazil's biggest player of the second part of the Noughties.

These perennially difficult questions which hinge on a complex array of industry-specific factors become even thornier when earnings pressures are high.

Of course, this opens up more problems: The payment issue is thornier when you get international, there's a significant marketing and language challenges and there's the iPhone-only problem.

But things get even thornier when one adds to the mix the most essential fact of all: that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are going anywhere.

Their affair becomes a thorny triangle when Oliver falls for Sophie, a graduate student engaged to Marian's oafish cousin.

While he acknowledged the demand from audiences to have characters from marginalised groups leading books and series, he said it was a "thorny question" when his job was to "serve the characters as best I can".