If that's a knotty question, so is the broader one we face as a species.

At least in a practical sense, these knotty questions have now been settled.

Programs like the one here in Chicago highlight many of the knotty questions that the new public art raises.

Looming over the entire enterprise is a knotty question: What makes good subway art?

For the most part, however, psychiatrists confront the knotty questions without ready answers.

But beyond what some see as bureaucratic sluggishness is a knottier question that absorbs the mental health professionals at work here.

But the Mayor conceded that he did not know how such a ban would work and that the concept raised knotty questions about free speech.

Even if the Israelis agree in principle, there remains the perennially knotty question of who will speak for the Palestinians.

That raised a knotty question.

It was a knotty question.

The knottier question of whether high-end CE presented an unacceptable hazard to the operators remained open.

Imagine a programmer, for instance, who knows her Ruby on Rails but comes up against a knotty question involving data structures.

They have law degrees, law clerks to help research any knotty questions, and easy access to books on the previous rulings their courts have issued.

So Maine, like other states, has found itself facing a knotty question: voters have said they wanted medical marijuana available, but how can it be legally distributed?

This may involve an element of roguery but the knotty question which often comes before the courts is 'Who is the owner?'

Since she'd entered the country on stolen papers, she could then be deported back to Russia and the knotty question of extradition would never have arisen.

The backers cannot say how they will determine who is eligible, a reprise of the knotty question, "Who is a Jew?"

He stroked his beard while explicating his ideas with the care of a man parsing a particularly knotty question of Scripture.

That turns out to be an even knottier question, for one gets the impression that many contributors proceeded as usual but scaled their images down to size.

Let's pledge ourselves to Prince Keriones's policy: this knotty question of Lailma we shall then easily undo.

There's every indication that it's on the way there in the premiere because it's finally started to wrestle with some of the knottier questions at its center."

He raises a complex of knotty questions in his account of Graum's creatures, which "are not imitations of anything" but "are only themselves."

How this might play out in Westchester, where the median price of a home is now only a rock-skip from half a million dollars, is a knotty question.

Torrey said he didn't wish to discuss the ownership situation today, although he conceded that a large cash payment in a Lindros deal could become a knotty question.

But as the districts have thrived, they have raised a knotty question about accountability: Are mini-governments springing up across the city that are being run without oversight?