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The bill would crush unions' political strength, since thorny logistics make it costly and difficult to get permission on a yearly basis.
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.”
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.
Gaak is often used for gagging, but gag itself was originally onomatopoetic, which raises the thorny issue of how much language was all imitative at one time.
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.