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Quantifying return on investment in relation to marketing spend has always been a thorny issue.

Facebook's privacy problem has always been a thorny issue.

Stylistic translation is an important and yet thorny issue in literary translation.

Tax arbitrage has always been a thorny issue.

With that thorny issue out of the way the rest followed easily.

The organizers and participants acknowledge that engagement with an oppressive government is a thorny issue.

Four years after the Changing Childbirth report, client choice is still a thorny issue for midwifery practice.

As ahead of meetings with Chinese leaders, President Bush hails Taiwan as a model of freedom , raising a thorny issue in Sino-US relations.

Israel is considering a compromise with the United States on the thorny issue of Jewish settlements.

The package appears to dodge a thorny issue: The aides say the F-16 fighter jets that Taiwan covets are not likely to be included.

The enrichment and comprehensive recovery of indium becomes a thorny issue for which there is still not an ideal metallurgical process.

Airbus's relationships with its suppliers is another thorny issue.

Another thorny issue involves controlling inflation in the face of emerging market forces .

I require you to send someone to deal with this thorny issue as soon as possible.

The Obama administration jettisoned that idea after running into the thorny issue of pricing.

Mr. Liu's comments suggest that currency could emerge as a thorny issue during Mr. Obama's visit.

At most, Beijing and Taipei will put aside, rather than resolve, the thorny issue of Taiwan's permanent status.

It is a thorny issue, but complex markets need not be volatile or damaging to the wider global economy.

However, nuclear energy could help provide the solution for this thorny issue.

The thorny issue of Jewish settlements topped the agenda at Israel's weekly Cabinet meeting.

"The so-called " puppy love "problem is a thorny issue for all teachers. But Chen doesn't think it's a problem at all. "

The thorny issue poses threat to the thrifty tramp on the threshold of thriving.

But it also means Beijing needs to address the thorny issue of how to exit from extra-loose monetary policies first.

The 1993 law was a compromise aimed at resolving a thorny issue.

the thorny issue of immigration policy.

The third ethical qualm involves the thorny issue of fairness.

Recruiting from outside the family, however, remain a thorny issue.

The other thorny issue is Mr O'Neal's pay-off.

Then there is the thorny issue of privacy.