thorny question

collocation in English

meaningsofthornyandquestion

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thorny
adjective
uk
/ˈθɔː.ni/us
/ˈθɔːr.ni/
A thorny problem or subject is difficult to ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofthornyandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthorny question

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Thethornyquestionof the integrability of demand functions is glossed over rather too swiftly.
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This is athornyquestion.
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However, thethornyquestionof how genuine user participation can be promoted via participatory theory and methodology is left unaddressed.
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Athornyquestionis whether the parliament-media interactions should be modelled with daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly data.
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That is a verythornyquestion.
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That must necessarily be athornyquestion.
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I turn now to thethornyquestionof tax evasion.
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I now turn to thethornyquestionof private fostering.
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That is athornyquestion, connected with military sanctions.
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I turn to thethornyquestionof private practice.
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I come to thethornyquestionof detention.
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I know that is a verythornyquestion.
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Then there is the verythornyquestionof the capitulations.
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The conscription of women is a verythornyquestion.
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I now come to a rather morethornyquestion.
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Thethornyquestionis that of the advisory committee.
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The first is thethornyquestionof classification.
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They address thethornyquestionof the planners and their public and how far there was a democratic agenda in decision-making.
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It might help answer thethornyquestionof why individuals with panic disorders attribute immense significance to physiologically relatively mild levels of disequilibrium.
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This leads to thethornyquestionof what would happen if patient views were better incorporated into decisions regarding discretionary procedures, particularly whether they would reduce variation.
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It represented a move towards a more workerist and syndicalist view of the anarchists' role, and towards a less purist attitude to thethornyquestionof anarchist organisation.
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That would remove all difficulty with regard to thethornyquestionof compensation.
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This raises thethornyquestionof how best to deal fairly with small woodlands.
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I am afraid it is because this admittedlythornyquestionwas left unsettled.
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