This week, some movement was apparently achieved in the thorniest area - agriculture.

A second thorny area, she said, is explaining why Jews could not prevent the disaster.

The scientific uncertainty surrounding such injuries has made it a particularly thorny area for regulators and courtroom challengers.

It is a thorny legume, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, particularly drier areas near the coast.

The international effort to restrict the proliferation of sensitive military technologies is one particularly thorny area that has long roiled Sino-American relations.

The triumphant spin: Barak has already resolved the Jerusalem issue, the thorniest area of Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Gift prohibitions, long a thorny area of government ethics laws, are currently being debated in Albany.

Lest someone who aspires to the Presidency be dissuaded when he or she need not be, let me clarify this thorny area of law.

This is a thorny area.

But predatory behavior is one of the thorniest areas of antitrust law.