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At the same time, however, the proliferation of technology has brought with it a range of thorny issues surrounding managing and integrating complex processes, computer equipment, and telecommunications networks.
The soft, New Agey religion popularized in the West bears little resemblance to the actual religion of Tibet, which is full of idol worship and thorny theological questions.
The result of his well-meant and highly-appreciated gesture is that there is now in the deathless literature of entomology a robber fly species named Proctacanthus rodecki James, which is roughly translated “Rodeck's thorny anus.”
Kenneth Starr's decision to leave his post as independent counsel before his final report is complete raises a thorny issue: Do the three judges who sit on the panel that appointed him have the right to name a successor now that the prosecutor statute has expired?
Another interesting word that American cowhands have taken from their Mexican predecessors, along with the thing itself, is chaps, typically truncated from the Mexican chaparreras, the word for protective leather leggings worn mainly by cowboys on horseback in thorny brush.