Knottiest

Now he had arrived at one of the "knottiest" points of the whole performance. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

In an elegant narrative Ms. Wertheim has taken on one of the knottiest conundrums in the philosophy of science, the demarcation problem—that is, how to find criteria to define the boundary between science and pseudoscience. ❋ Michael Shermer (2011)

Social security is at its knottiest where one piece of the safety net gets entangled with another, so there is real logic in weaving overlapping elements into a seamless whole. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And as for Jamie Elkins, part of the Common Cents Consulting team, we could not have worked our way out of some of the knottiest compliance and accounting issues without her. ❋ Ethan Axelrod (2011)

One key to solving the knottiest problem of the debt ceiling could prove to be an idea that Mr. McConnell himself hatched a few weeks ago. ❋ John D. McKinnon (2011)

Focus on the knottiest problems about how to share custody in a way that benefits the child. ❋ Tara Fass (2011)

Business school faculty and students are applying their management skills to one of the world's knottiest problems: climate change. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Over the decades, as America evolved -- as slavery was prohibited and the Civil War was fought, and as the New Deal swept through the country -- our constitutional values, like a vine, wrapped around the knottiest ethnic and historical features of our landscape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their optimism, their commitment to their families, and their willingness to take on some of the knottiest of racial misunderstandings in their own homes remain an inspiration to me. ❋ KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN (2010)

"Con Law III" -- 14th Amendment, coveringte some of the knottiest, most contentious and intellectually challenging issues in constitutional law. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though Kelly offers some ideas in the final chapter for what to do about problems of violence against women in the U.S., her book is at its best when it is posing questions rather than answers, because it would require many more books and much longer conversations to develop real answers to the thorniest, knottiest questions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is why Guantanamo Bay -- a symbol of sometimes controversial Bush administration policies abroad and at home -- will be one of the knottiest White House legacies for Mr. Obama. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the knottiest dimensions of Berlin's pluralism is the idea of incommensurability, which has been open to diverging interpretations. ❋ Cherniss, Joshua (2008)

Of course, that future is filled with federal officials who want you to believe that healthy babies must be killed in order to procure the stem cells needed to solve many of the knottiest medical riddles of our day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our very real poverty is simply a complication we have to deal with in confronting the knottiest of our problems. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The knottiest task in computing is making a machine as friendly and receptive as a piece of paper. ❋ Unknown (2007)