Thornier

Far thornier is the fact that this is a commercial transaction from which parents desperately, if selectively, want emotional results. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But our lives are made even thornier by the dirt you feed to the public every f---in' day. ❋ Barry Michael Cooper (2011)

These issues are going to get even thornier as technology puts pressure on the entities who depend on the old "windowing" system—which staggers a movie's release through avenues like theaters, DVD and television, to maximize the profitability of each. ❋ Michelle Kung (2011)

It also poses no thornier an ethical danger for the protection of law-abiding citizens. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Photos of Osama bin Laden's body, however, present some thornier issues. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Obama wants a health care reform bill on his desk by the end of the year to both capitalize on momentum of his new administration and avoid the thornier political climate of midterm congressional elections in 2010. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Part of what makes equilibrium warp thornier and harder to explain is that with credibility and determinacy warp you're dealing with possibility and actuality, challenges to which can be resolved by filling in gapstory, rendering the story choate. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

But Mr. Monti has left a thornier question—what to do with the government's 30% stake in Eni itself—for another day. ❋ Andrew Peaple (2012)

Some issues that clearly cut one way in other states, such as immigration, are thornier in Florida. ❋ Carol E. Lee (2012)

Mr. Geithner said this approach was necessary because "we're not going to solve in two months" thornier issues, such as taxes, Medicare and Medicaid. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

Now, Mr. Monti is tackling the thornier issue of how to boost Italy's lackluster employment rate. ❋ Alessandra Galloni (2012)

Drinking is a thornier matter, since politicians and public health savants themselves drink, and the issue there is obviously over-drinking. ❋ Stanton Peele (2011)

The president wants a bill on his desk this year to take advantage of the momentum of his new administration and avoid the thornier political climate of mid-term congressional elections in 2010. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How the Berbers here came to get their Arab neighbors' animals—and their demands for returning them to their owners—mirrors the group's larger, thornier struggle to carve out an improved position in the new Libya. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

From economic beginnings unfurled something larger and thornier. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

If it transpires that many GPs have failed to communicate that effectively, then it will be as well to pause and ask how well they will fare at thornier tasks, such as managing contracts with mighty hospital trusts and rationing costly drugs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In fact, just yesterday “House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said he plans to meet with Republican lawmakers informally this week to discuss some of the thornier parts of an effort to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system:” ❋ Unknown (2009)