Sentences with phrase «very thorny»

All this may be mooted if the Supreme Court strikes down the assisted suicide prohibitions, as they may well do, but it is a very thorny problem.

A gardener employed by a local authority was pruning a very thorny bush wearing normal gardening gloves.

The attribution question is a very interesting one to watch as an outsider to the climatology community, as I see that community wrestle with how to influence the public and answer very thorny questions.

The economic issues are very thorny and complicated.

«The politics — it was very, very thorny.»

Like Oceans, this is one of our favorite 2012 debuts, and like Oceans, it is a psychologically acute look at a very thorny moral dilemma.

The issue of who pays on a date is a very thorny subject.

Proper nutrition, supplementation and exercise during Ramadan are very thorny issues for some.

Not exact matches

There have been very few updates on the state of negotiations, but just because Iran and the P5 +1 nations reached a framework deal in April does not mean they can overcome the remaining outstanding differences, which also happen to be some of the thorniest.

You can't go very far talking about Brexit without the thorny issue of trade creeping in.

Their conviction raises a very difficult issue, a thorny and uncomfortable problem: how to live with people with whom we disagree on basic issues of human life.

One way to do this: stand the choke in a separate soup bowl and hollow out the center where the thorny leaves are... put a very generous amount of the mixture on the center cavity, spread the leaves and push the mixture into the leaf area.

Still, Cuomo insisted he and state lawmakers are «very, very close» to an agreement on a thorny policy issue in the spending plan: Raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18.

And that they were not afraid to tackle very difficult and thorny issues and not worry about polls.

The road to this stage was very rough, thorny but I thank God that today I am where I am.

Three Billboards feels overwhelmingly human in this way, full of thorny characters who tend to mean well (or at the very least act out of ignorance) but rub up against others who mean well in an opposite direction, causing sparks to fly that are both inevitable and unfortunate.

This may sound like a very simple question to answer, but it isn't as straightforward as you might think, and being able to answer it correctly will make many of the thornier issues of creating ebooks just a bit easier.

It is a thorny, technical issue for which very few are adequately qualified to comment.

The latter tackles the thorny subject of post-internet art — art in any media informed by the structures and manifestations of the internet — with a panel discussion including critic Morgan Quaintance, one of the most interesting thinkers on this subject (and a man with a very attractive surname for someone trying to write an art A to Z).

It has always been very clear to me that while the visual arts don't have the same reach and critical mass as film, advertising or pop music, they can more easily confront difficult, thorny or violent topics to push the limits and provide a new or different perspective, though not necessarily more emancipated or just.

As a subject, Antinous works not only to provide a very human way into looking at Antique sculpture, but also as an introduction to some of the thorniest issues surrounding work of this period.

That's a very complicated and thorny issue, and I don't pretend to have an answer here.

The thorny issue of tracking of location data without risking individual privacy is very neatly illustrated via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request asking London's transport regulator to release the «anonymized» data - set it generated from a four week trial last year when it tracked metro users in the UK capital via wi - fi nodes and the MAC address of their smartphones as they traveled around its network.