Examples of thorny

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Not that he is ducking the more thorny problems thrown up by music, where imagery and literal meaning are much more elusive.
The thorny question of the integrability of demand functions is glossed over rather too swiftly.
As for the notion of continuity and its thorny problems, we will confine ourselves to one or two passing comments.
The question of appropriate comparison groups for children in or from institutions is a thorny one.
The question of the relation between the two systems and consciousness is a thorny one.
Although group work appears to offer these students numerous benefits, the assessment of group work projects is proving to be a thorny issue.
An answer to this question will lead into the thorny issues of the logic of explanation and the epistemic virtues.
The courts have thus offloaded the most troublesome and thorny part of the disputes while retaining the easiest part.
Clearly, any pre-electoral coalition bargaining process will involve a thorny set of distributional and ideological issues.
The notion of a gap leads straight into the thorny issue of the extent to which language change is driven by functional considerations.
Nonetheless, intercultural communication often runs into the notoriously thorny problem of ethical relativism.
The undergrowth was thick and dominated by tangles of climbers, giant herbs and thorny creepers.
Finally, the thorny question of or thography is addressed, along with the degree to which or thography is inseparable from social, cultural, and religious questions.
Part 1 covers the thorny issues of intensification of agriculture, rural poverty and shrinking biodiversity.
However, the thorny question of how genuine user participation can be promoted via participatory theory and methodology is left unaddressed.
The issue becomes especially thorny when complex linguistic skills are considered.
Camels are capable of digesting hard and thorny vegetables, but cannot digest grains of barley.
The format has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to engaging with the thorny topic of ageism.
A thorny question is whether the parliament-media interactions should be modelled with daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly data.
First, we try to solve some thorny measurement problems surrounding the concepts.
We know that aggregation has always been a thorny issue in economics.
I think that the answer to this will depend on how one views the thorny issue of divine punishment.
They address the thorny question of the planners and their public and how far there was a democratic agenda in decision-making.
They then extended their arguments to address the thorny issue of destocking.
Not wishing to enter this thorny territory, it will suffice for current purposes to argue for no more than an instrumentalist position.
Colonialism had helped scatter populations across the globe, raising particularly thorny issues for ideas of nations and nation-states.
Of course, this is a thorny old problem, and it would be unfair to suggest that there is an 'on the shelf' solution awaiting.
Potentially thorny management strategies were adopted in some instances.
Pandits were no different from other social groups in having to negotiate the sometimes thorny issues of identity, social placement, economic security, and professional status.
Just what these errors imply for acquisition, however, is a thorny issue.
He begins by tackling the thorny problem of defining what soft news is.
In setting social movements and not social classes as the political actors, they skip over thorny essentialisms.
The majority had densely branched dendritic trees and thin, very spiny dendrites with many shor t, fine, twig-like thorny processes.
One type resembled the parvocellular giant cell and another the broad thorny type described previously in primates.
His strategy is not always convincing, partly because dealing with a thorny topic over such a long time span is a daunting task for any single scholar.
Rather, an attempt is made to posit schema theory within a postmodern framework without reference to some of the thorny philosophical issues raised by mixing metaphors.
Critics called this plan merely a controlled devaluation; its advocates countered that since controlling a devaluation is perhaps its thorniest issue, this criticism was a praise in disguise.
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