Control of the Motorola name was thornier both men viewed the brand as fundamental to their businesses.
Control of the Motorola name was thornier both men viewed the brand as fundamental to their businesses.
It is on the issue of failure, however, that the thornier questions still lie.
Should he decide later to touch the tricky matter of selection, it could then be thornier still.
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He will be reluctant to oblige, particularly on the thorny issues of redeployment and (still thornier) Jerusalem.
What is unusual is the extent to which it deals with some of its thornier issues in public.
Though economics is his field, he will have to deflect questions on the thornier issues of human rights and nuclear espionage.
All firms that received bailout cash are subject to limits on their compensation practices, but for some, the situation is thornier.
He is still not giving much detail on the thornier immigration questions.
It was a hint to move on to thornier issues, Breyer suggested.
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How better to distract attention from other thornier issues and steal some of the Democrats' thunder than by unveiling a big environmental initiative?
While other Asylum artists were writing songs about peaceful easy feelings, Judee Sill was grappling with thornier issues: Christian mysticism, theosophy and the occult.
Addressing income disparity is a thornier proposition than simply building the new roads, airports and other infrastructure projects that have helped propel the Chinese economy.
Few problems today are thornier than trying to prevent terrorist acts.
That still ignores the thornier question of whether drug prices are indeed too high, and whether there is anything that can be done beyond doling out more money.
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 midterm congressional elections in 2010.
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In admitting that the use of stingrays constitutes a search and seizure as defined by the Fourth Amendment, the government is apparently looking to sidestep thornier litigation that could jeopardize the secrecy of its tactics.
While Rice struggled here to make progress on thornier strategic arms issues with Russia--Lavrov reiterated his country's disapproval of U.S. plans to place a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe--she has more momentum when it comes to pressuring business to shut out Iran.
Despite the efforts of legislators to resolve the thornier issues--such as making sure that a woman's decision to have an abortion is not influenced by the idea that her fetus's tissue may help a victim of Parkinson's disease--the current calm in public attitudes may well be fleeting.
One Machiavellian school of thought has it that the row over adultery was part of a devious plan to focus European attention on the penal code and away from even thornier issues such as the discrimination still faced by Turkey's non-Muslim minorities, and the ban on theological training for Orthodox Christians.
But we could also see a move to a halfway house of fiscal accountability on income tax too - perhaps nominally assigning a chunk of Welsh income tax receipts to the Welsh Government without the much thornier move towards tax varying powers - something the First Minister has long stressed would be a matter for another referendum.
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