Examples of 'thorny issues' in a sentence

Meaning of "thorny issues"

thorny issues: This phrase describes complex or challenging problems, topics, or dilemmas that are difficult to solve or address. It is typically used to highlight the complications and potential controversies surrounding an issue

How to use "thorny issues" in a sentence

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Many thorny issues still divide them.
We can no longer avoid these thorny issues.
Among the thorny issues is property, the next topic on the agenda.
We do not doubt that these are thorny issues.
The scenario raises thorny issues for the employer.
Managing increasing complexity means dealing with a number of thorny issues.
This is therefore one of the thorny issues we need to address.
Time is fast running out to negotiate the big thorny issues.
But then we come to the thorny issues of plastic recycling.
She felt that the opinion successfully addressed a number of thorny issues.
It is best to resolve such thorny issues over the phone or in person.
Intellectual property is important in our universities but it sometimes raises thorny issues.
The question of reservations is one of the thorny issues of the law of treaties.
They have responded with caution and discipline seeking reasonable solutions to thorny issues.
Those are the very important and thorny issues which must be dealt with.

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Several recent decisions have attempted to wrestle with these thorny issues.
And it has led to some particularly thorny issues for both parents and lenders.
The others told more anecdotes and the conversation drifted towards more thorny issues.
The discussion of practical challenges also includes thorny issues like compliance with accounting standards.
As illustrated in the box below, liability over legal persons raises a number of thorny issues.
To do this effectively, some thorny issues must be addressed.
The Committee has not yet begun to address these thorny issues.
The most difficult and thorny issues had been removed, including any reference to webcasting.
But biomass can raise thorny issues.
Two much more thorny issues have already been touched on, distributive justice and intergenerational justice.
Lynds argues that this resolves a number of thorny issues in cosmology.
A host of conflicts and thorny issues could have been given more prominence in the report:.
Broad measures were spelled out for addressing the thorny issues of militias.
Would thorny issues be resolved?
IBM is obviously venturing into a thicket of thorny issues with the paper.
Moreover, two thorny issues should not be overlooked, match-fixing and doping.
The European Union has been confronted with some thorny issues.
The leaders, however, could raise thorny issues in a closed-door and informal session.
Yet Sarnoff 's booster rhetoric overlooked some thorny issues.
For this scenario to prevail, some other thorny issues will have to be re solved.
We need only look back to the 1980s, when institutional investors successfully solved two thorny issues.
Of course, each of these qualities has raised thorny issues and provoked ongoing arguments.
Over the years, reporters at The Times have written extensively about the thorny issues involved.
Fifthly and lastly, the Circular decides on the thorny issues of transitional provisions.
In his most recent production, Paz Errázuriz continues to tackle thorny issues and unique stories.
Larry Kudlow, Mr Trump 's economic adviser, says talks on these thorny issues are well advanced.
Canadian legislators are under pressure to resolve a host of thorny issues by June 2016.

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