American relations with Mexico, though much warmer than a generation ago, are still prickly.
He could be prickly, too -- and thoughtful, and bitter, and expansive, and wistful.
Prickly at the best of times, Japanese-Chinese relations have turned sour with mutual accusations of lying.
The prickly issue of voting reform has proved to be a key stumbling block.
For my garden Adrian recommends planting a pyrocantha, a prickly bush with orange berries.
His smoothness under congressional fire contrasted glaringly with the prickly way Gates handled himself in 1998.
No one knows what's going to happen, because South Carolina takes pride in being prickly.
But as Oscar Wilde reminds us, friendship mixed with human nature can be a prickly business.
Augusta's chairman dodged the prickly issue of women's membership Wednesday, saying it was a private matter.
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Mint julep invoked scorching heat, distant thunder, and the stridulation of crickets in prickly grass.
Always prickly, the U.S.-Chinese relationship has been rubbed raw these days on Capitol Hill.
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Another prickly issue is access to land, most of which is owned by the royal family.
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The local governor, a formidable and prickly man named Yevgeny Nazdratenko, is up for election.
Western businessmen tend to find Ukraine relatively cosmopolitan and tolerant, compared with self-conscious and prickly Russia.
It may sound provocative enough to alienate prickly Americans, without giving Europeans any serious extra firepower.
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But American officials know just how prickly China can get when it is accused of mercantilism.
It was difficult to warm to a person who was often very prickly in post-match interviews.
This is no hagiography: she could be prickly, stubborn and unsentimental to the point of coldness.
Next month China will join America and South Korea in four-way talks-about-talks with prickly North Korea.
Sasha saw the prickly shape of the bonsai silhouetted against the window near her head.
Instead, the pressure will mostly be subtler: encouraging self-censorship, promoting the compliant, sidelining the prickly.
Through a fug of cigarette smoke, her hosts found her intense, charming, stubborn and prickly.
But this film, with its prickly characters and its complicated plot, rips along with tension and power.
Juniper, a prickly evergreen shrub that grows throughout the northern hemisphere, is the primary flavoring in gin.
Sure, comparing paychecks can be prickly, but staying silent is hurting us where it counts: our pocketbooks.
The government will have a prickly time as tales of these machinations multiply in the months ahead.
Will they find it a prickly and defensive place, or an alluring one, full of mysterious surprises?
The reason this time is not the sleaze and cronyism of the 1990s, but Slovakia's prickly principles.
It is a potential ally whose neighbours include prickly Pakistan and China, America's competitor for influence throughout Asia.
Other prickly issues include how to brand the service Visa or Citibank and what fee the cell networks will receive.
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