Another thorny issue is the UK's annual rebate, which some of its EU partners want scrapped.
Another thorny issue would be trying to raise money for common deposit-insurance and bank-resolution funds.
That mega-deal will have to contend with the thorny issue of who gets control.
Firing people in a country that has youth unemployment in excess of 40% is a thorny issue.
The thorny issue of Russian nuclear technology transfers to Iran was also thought to have been discussed.
Speculation over the delay in his appointment has centred on the thorny issue of a director of football.
Meanwhile, the British government has side-stepped the thorny issue of generics in its own report released on November 28th.
During the debate on democracy and citizenship not all delegates wanted to engage with the thorny issue of Lords reform.
Automakers will take up the thorny issue of plant closings in contract talks with the United Auto Workers later this year.
Questions remain about how to handle the detainees, and who would be better in handling that thorny issue than John McCain?
Juvenile registration has long been a thorny issue even among supporters of the registry and the rules have evolved over time.
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Last weekend Hagel spoke with Karzai, and officials said the two men agreed to resolve the thorny issue within a week.
Another thorny issue is the new mayor's relationship with the 32 London boroughs, which currently control most of London's public services.
It might be, for there is also the thorny issue of liability.
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But before any of that can happen, the thorny issue relating to the funding of Sainsbury's pension fund would need to be resolved.
Just before the end of last year, the parties resolved a thorny issue involving royalty payments made to union members for each container unloaded.
But this is a thorny issue which BMW is reluctant to discuss - beyond Mr Biggs' insistence that "our business is in good shape".
Another thorny issue are three Russian military bases on Georgian soil.
Hundreds have died making the perilous crossing, inflaming tensions around what was already a thorny issue for the minority Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
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Just as the season heats up and the stakes get higher, teams face the thorny issue of how to integrate new players without unsettling their lineups.
Different counties have cobbled together different strategies to deal with the thorny issue, but officials and homeless advocates from several counties said there is no easy answer.
The third ethical qualm involves the thorny issue of fairness.
Rovio also released a new version of its Angry Birds mobile game with a Super Bowl tie-in, while also tackling the thorny issue of Android fragmentation, according to CNET.
The paper focuses on the thorny issue of climate change and especially on McKibben, the writer-turned-activist who transformed the Keystone XL pipeline into a fiery political issue for the Obama administration.
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Airbus's relationships with its suppliers is another thorny issue.
They're either intended to punt a thorny issue off the agenda for a while, or else to hammer out an emerging solution, as the famous 1983 Social Security Commission managed to do.
Its human rights record has long been been criticised by campaigners and is a thorny issue in relations with its ally the United States, for whom it hosts a major military base.
The National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was a mid-level bureaucrat for the outfit she now runs under the first President Bush in 1990, and worked on the then-thorny issue of German reunification.
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From Baghdad to Okinawa, this is a thorny issue, and now is not a good time in Kabul to negotiate an agreement guaranteeing American troops immunity from local prosecution even after 2014.
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