1.   And this race looks like a briar patch.

2.   At the same time, a convergence of other issues made population control and immigration a political briar patch.

3.   Banished to this subterranean briar patch by the local matriarchy, I secretly howl with joy.

4.   Cassell not only was a thorn in the side of the Suns in the playoffs last year but a whole briar patch.

5.   Global TV, meanwhile, is happy to see the long-eared star escape the regulatory briar patch.

6.   Her house, on Georgica Pond in East Hampton, rises like a lighthouse out of the briar patch.

7.   His life for years was a briar patch of contradictions.

8.   It was like the rabbit and the briar patch.

9.   Like a briar patch, those agreements now coiled around one another in ways that business innocents such as Potrykus and Beyer would never unravel.

10.   Native plants were bred in this briar patch, and they can take it, he says.