31.   Sattar said negotiations are underway on the thorny question of access to military bases.

32.   So no matter what Bush and Congress decide, the thorny questions about embryonic stem cell research may ultimately be settled piecemeal, in the states.

33.   Stewart has always backed off from analyzing the thorny political questions which the film itself raises and then does its best to avoid.

34.   Such thinking also complicates the thorny question of police reform, another element of the Good Friday agreement.

35.   That is not the only thorny question being raised.

36.   Sure, he was prepared, but he actually seemed to know what he was talking about when thorny Internet questions popped up.

37.   That point raises a thorny question for those pushing for more minorities in the business.

38.   The case and the conflict over the punishment captures the difficulties of campus rape, even beyond the thorny question of what constitutes consent.

39.   The energy department is tackling several thorny questions about where and how to set up the facility.

40.   The excerpted comments below highlight the passions as well as some of the thorny legal, scientific and social questions that tobacco raises.