Bezos's influence is perhaps the thorniest question facing the paper.
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That points to the third and thorniest problem: balancing cultures.
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Some of America's thorniest environmental problems are being solvedby goats.
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The livestock industry is the thorniest problem of grizzly recovery.
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It is one of the thorniest dilemmas in climate policy.
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Perhaps understandably, the thorniest ones make us cautious and avoidant.
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But the thorniest topic of all isn't on the agenda: trade.
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But some of the thorniest and most contentious issues lie ahead.
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One of the thorniest issues with this question is statistical significance.
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Fishing is one of the thorniest issues for negotiators to overcome.
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The thorniest problem with Right to Try is dealing with adverse events.
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Finally, one of the thorniest issues is gentrification's role in disrupting local culture.
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And they still had not tackled one of the thorniest issues: climate change.
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The Tibetan issue is one of the thorniest involving China and other nations.
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The so-called abductees issue remains the thorniest matter dividing the neighboring countries.
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ONE of the thorniest issues for Brexit was always going to be dispute resolution.
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Welfare benefits for EU migrants to Britain are the thorniest issue in the negotiations.
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The big picture: The two issues are among the three or four thorniest today.
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"That seems to be probably the second thorniest issue that we have," Meadows said.
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The thorniest content issues are decided by a group of top executives at Facebook.
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Thaad is one of the thorniest diplomatic issues the new South Korean leader faces.
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Border security has been one of the thorniest branches in the immigration policy tree.
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John Thune (R-SD) calls it the single thorniest issue of the entire debate.
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It has been one of the thorniest issues in relations between the two countries.
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RESETTLEMENT is one of the thorniest problems caused by the surge of migrants in Europe.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest disputes between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Migration, and in particular the question of family reunions, is one of the thorniest issues.
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THE THORNIEST question in popular music at the moment is this: who owns a melody?
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A: One of the thorniest compliance areas that we have to deal with is murder.
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Here is a guide to some of the thorniest questions leaders face: For now, yes.
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It has remained one of the thorniest issues for House Republicans on the tax bill.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
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There are glimpses into the ugliest, thorniest sides of human nature, middle fingers to the man.
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However, the resolution does not address one of the thorniest issues: how to pay for it.
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Lawmakers for more than a decade have struggled to resolve the thorniest policy issue in Washington.
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Medicaid has always been one of the thorniest issues for Republicans to navigate during ObamaCare repeal.
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One of the thorniest topics is whether Qualcomm's royalty rates hurt consumers by raising smartphone prices.
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The thorniest scenes show tensions playing out at hearings and public meetings, where both sides clash.
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Catalonia's independence drive is one of the thorniest issues for any Spanish prime minister to handle.
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Within the Trump Organization, it was Mr. Cohen's job to deal with Mr. Trump's thorniest problems.
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Whether to raise taxes on the rich is one of the thorniest issues in tax reform.
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The changes to Medicaid are one of the thorniest questions that Republicans are still working through.
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Six working groups are addressing various issues, with divestitures and cartel law the thorniest, Belloni said.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to any Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
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I'm grateful so many of you entrusted me with your most difficult problems and thorniest, trickiest questions.
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The Santa Clara document is limited to process issues, sidestepping many of the thorniest questions around moderation.
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But economists say the trade issues are perhaps the thorniest and ones the Fed can't easily combat.
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The thorniest part of this year's reconciliation bill is how long to delay the effects of repeal.
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" Meadows continued: "The pathway to citizenship remains still the thorniest issue that we have to deal with.
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Merkel was expected to focus more on trade, which remains the thorniest issue between her and Trump.
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In the meantime, let us all delicately start a conversation about one of this topic's thorniest issues.
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The issue is the thorniest political issue in Switzerland's relations with the EU, its biggest trading partner.
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DONTNOD's bravery and unprecedented willingness to wrestle with the thorniest issues of the day can't be overstated.
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The situation on the Korean peninsula remains one of the thorniest challenges for Asian security and politics.
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It faces a herculean task since rising health care costs are one of the nation's thorniest problems.
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Provider payments are the thorniest issue to figure out for any plan to prevent surprise medical bills.
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They are trying to lay the groundwork to have all but the thorniest problems solved by the autumn.
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Settlements are one of the thorniest issues in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, frozen since 2014.
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The problem is thorniest for young people and women, for whom unemployment stands at 25.2% and 19.7% respectively.
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One of the thorniest issues Republicans have grappled with is treating both expansion and non-expansion states equally.
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Discussions over so-called rules of origin in the auto sector are among the thorniest issues facing negotiators.
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Brexit One of the thorniest issues in separating the UK from the European Union concerns the Irish border.
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Those talks would show whether the negotiating teams could resolve the three thorniest issues this week, he said.
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"Perhaps the thorniest challenges exist on the data side, with respect to access and privacy," the paper said.
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One of the thorniest issues in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is resolving the rival demands for Jerusalem's future.
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Tripped Up In a new Travel column, Sarah Firshein aims to help travelers resolve their thorniest travel disasters.
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But despite their beauty, they also represent one of the thorniest issues that face citizens of the West.
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A European official who declined to be named said Russia was the thorniest issue discussed over dinner on Saturday.
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The thorniest issue may arise from putting into treaty terms the agreement to avoid a hard border in Ireland.
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All of which leads to the biggest and thorniest of issues: What would a Syria at peace look like?
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Despite their optimistic tone, however, there was no public discussion of the thorniest points of contention between the countries.
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But too often the episode, "Rallying to Keep the Game Alive," speeds past the juiciest, thorniest, most revelatory moments.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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The Bundys' illegal takeover of a national wildlife refuge shines a spotlight on some of the West's thorniest problems.
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Bottom line This is the point when House and Senate leadership will have to close out the thorniest issues.
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Arrangements for the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are one of the thorniest issues of Brexit talks.
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Shannon's calm demeanor, language skills and decades of experience made him a frequent choice for some of the thorniest assignments.
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Trump has long promised to tackle the high cost of health care in America, one of the nation's thorniest problems.
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But it leaves unanswered the biggest and thorniest question: Why does Russia so flagrantly flout international laws, rules and conventions?
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A European official who declined to be named said Russia was the thorniest issue discussed at a dinner on Saturday.
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The screen is one of 600 around China, IMAX's biggest market in the world—but also one of its thorniest.
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Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo offered support, arguing those weeks should be used to narrow differences on the thorniest issues.
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The thorniest issue for them to resolve is what to do about the Medicaid expansion that 31 states have adopted.
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ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion has long been one of the thorniest issues for Republicans in their push to repeal the law.
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That sets up a showdown on one of the thorniest political issues just as the midterm campaigns come into focus.
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Yet the thorniest issue — the question of whether witnesses will be called, as Democrats are demanding — still hasn't been solved.
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So it really is up to Congress, which of late has not distinguished itself in settling the nation's thorniest dilemmas.
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The thorniest — and most politically charged — involves a proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 from 16.
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Rie, VP of digital, is helping solve for one of the PR industry's thorniest problems today: proving communications actually works.
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Yasmin Green leads a team at Google's parent company with an audacious goal: solving the thorniest geopolitical problems that emerge online.
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Mnuchin weighed in on several of the thorniest subjects thought to be separating the American and Chinese sides from a deal.
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Background: President Trump's decision to withdraw from the JCPOA last year has created one of the thorniest points of transatlantic division.
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One of the thorniest issues concerns interoperability, where devices made by different vendors are expected to seamlessly work with each other.
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The thorniest issues in the NAFTA talks with Mexico and Canada concern U.S. demands on automotive trade and dispute settlement systems.
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There even appears to be progress on the thorniest issue — the U.S. demand for more NAFTA and U.S. components in automobiles.
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Nearly all of these commissions have tried to bring resolution to some of the thorniest, shameful chapters of America's racial past.
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And it doesn't get into detail on two of the thorniest trade categories between the U.S. and Europe: autos and agriculture.
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The thorniest issue in the talks will be Russia's military presence in eastern Ukraine, large but almost wholly unacknowledged by Moscow.
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OTTAWA — Six weeks into the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the thorniest issues surrounding the pact remain unresolved.
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The nation has been largely stable and peaceful for decades, but this is one of the world's thorniest and longest conflicts.
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Tripped Up In a new Travel column, Sarah Firshein aims to help travelers resolve their thorniest and most upsetting travel disasters.
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In his book "Willful Blindness," McCarthy describes Khuzami as fearless, dogged and willing to contend with the thorniest knots of evidence.
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RELATED: Exclusive: How John Roberts killed the census citizenship question The new abortion access case from Louisiana could pose the thorniest challenge.
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New York (CNN Business)Apple is taking a public stand against the Trump administration's position on one of America's thorniest immigration issues.
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Their plan would likely hand some of the thorniest creditor issues to a new, independent oversight board which does not yet exist.
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The thorniest issue was South Korea's deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system that China sees as a threat to its security.
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The thorniest of these mandates in the Browser Act is the first one, since "clear and conspicuous" is too ambiguous a term.
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News Analysis The new deal between the United States and China leaves untouched the thorniest issues driving the two economic giants apart.
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The thorniest part of it — establishing a system for the state-controlled production and sale of marijuana — took years to work out.
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The only Level 11 Google Fellows at the company, the duo is responsible for conquering some of the search giant's thorniest technical challenges.
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With some of the thorniest issues, such as facial recognition, the company has also called on legislators to create rules of the road.
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Mr Corbyn said a customs union would avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland, one of the thorniest issues in the Brexit negotiations.
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Mike Pence of Indiana and Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, found some common ground on what is perhaps the thorniest geopolitical crisis today.
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They have told visitors to Beijing and others in private conversations that China will not budge on the thorniest issues, the report said.
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The first round made little progress with no sign of compromise over the thorniest issue, the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The fate of the DACA program and the 750,000 young immigrants in it is one of the thorniest immigration issues facing President Trump.
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The thorniest issue between the US and Turkey -- the YPG question -- has played out against the backdrop of the increasingly complex Syrian conflict.
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One of the thorniest problems with making reparations to victims of sweeping historical injustices is deciding who is included and who is not.
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Unsurprisingly, however, the LME notes that there is "a broad spectrum of opinions" on what still remains the thorniest of LME physical delivery issues.
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The status of Jerusalem, a city holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, is one of the thorniest barriers to a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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While leaving some of the thorniest issues unresolved, the pact clarifies the maritime borders, enabling new oil, gas and pipeline projects to go ahead.
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The thorniest problem for Mr Gates's proposal, however, is that, for the moment at least, automation is occurring not too rapidly but too slowly.
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The thorniest question for all utopian family abolitionists is what would happen if, when the imagined future arrived, that possessive instinct refused to fade.
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Intelligent algorithms can go a long way towards addressing this problem, where only the thorniest of cases are passed onto the courts for resolution.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders touched on one of the thorniest issues in politics during a climate change town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday night.
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This season, we're focusing on health care, and we wanted to begin with one of thorniest questions in the American health care system: prices.
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And on the topic of advice: We have a new Travel column that aims to help resolve the thorniest and most upsetting vacation disasters.
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One of the thorniest issues in dealing with down rounds is how a former unicorn keeps its employees after destroying the value of their shares.
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The decision resolved one of the league's longest-standing and thorniest challenges: how to put a team back in the country's second-largest media market.
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A global LNG market also eases one of the thorniest problems in energy geopolitics: Russia's use of gas pipelines to bully neighbours such as Ukraine.
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Top trade negotiators from the two countries met to wrap up a week of talks on some of the thorniest issues in their trade war.
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"The situation is very delicate, the subordinated bond is one of the thorniest issues at the moment," a third source close to the matter said.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, who were furious over Trump's move.
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One of the thorniest issues between the United States and Mexico has been the rules that govern whether automobiles qualify for zero tariffs under Nafta.
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Perhaps the thorniest one involved the question of who qualified as a caregiver and how he or she would become eligible to collect to benefit.
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The Trump administration appears to be taking on one of the thorniest issues in American medicine: giving patients control of their own health care data.
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Electioneering was already underway during the parliamentary debate, with party leaders exchanging insults, as well as highlighting some of the thorniest issues Britain faces today.
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"There is no death," she says right off the bat, resolving in four words one of humanity's thorniest questions and bringing relief to her clients.
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The status of Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy, is one of the thorniest issues for Beijing, which views the island as part of China's territory.
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The UK-based company, which Google bought in 2014, today announced the formation of a new research group dedicated to the thorniest issues in artificial intelligence.
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Israel deems Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital dating to antiquity, and its status is one of the thorniest barriers to a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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The seized documents could shed light on the president's relationship with a lawyer who has helped navigate some of Mr. Trump's thorniest personal and business problems.
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The Affordable Care Act, some of the thorniest problems in that bill were worked out in cooperation with big business in order to accomplish progressive goals.
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And one of the thorniest issues in dealing with down rounds is how a former unicorn keeps its employees after destroying the value of their shares.
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According to Myron Brilliant of the US Chamber of Commerce, a lobby group, the talks starting on April 3rd focused on two of the thorniest topics.
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So the big problems over the next 2100 years will be eliminating natural gas for heating and gasoline for transportation, two of the thorniest decarbonization challenges.
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While the pipeline project has been moving on its own timeline, the purchase coincidentally comes during one of the thorniest periods in U.S.-Canadian trade relations.
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This has long been one of the thorniest of issues in our bilateral relationship, pitting Cubans against each other and justifying the continuation of the embargo.
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How and if information gets in or out of a black hole is now one of the thorniest, most profound and hotly debated questions in physics.
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As head of Facebook's global policy and counterterrorism, Ms. Bickert deals with the company's thorniest questions, like what should and should not be allowed on Facebook.
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The SCMP report cited a source saying the talks had so far skirted some of the thorniest issues, including technology transfers and state subsidies in China.
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Sources briefed on the talks say the the two sides still aren't wrestling with the thorniest trade issues that caused the impasse in the first place.
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Catalonia's secessionist drive is one of the thorniest issues facing Sanchez after he toppled center-right premier Mariano Rajoy last month in a vote of no-confidence.
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All venture-backed startups face the challenge of building a business, but this one has to do it by making progress on one of tech's thorniest problems.
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A former foreign minister, Brahimi has carried out troubleshooting missions for the United Nations across several regions and mediated on some of the Middle East's thorniest conflicts.
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In September 2015 the government and the FARC agreed on a resolution to the thorniest area of dispute: how to handle transitional justice for conflict-related crimes.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to forging a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem as their capital.
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The thorniest issues related to the internet, from cyber-security and hate speech to international data flows, are a complex mixture of the political and the technical.
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His comedy ruminates on some of the thorniest curveballs of intersectional politics: What does it mean to be both gay and, once upon a time, evangelically Christian?
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A long-awaited decision on airport expansion will be among the thorniest issues in the transport brief for Grayling, who was formely leader of parliament's lower house.
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For Sestan, the thorniest issue centered on consciousness and whether the Yale team, inadvertently, might somehow have figured out a way to elicit it from dead flesh.
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The common problem they address is one of the thorniest in education: teaching in primary schools where one teacher instructs children at multiple grade levels at once.
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The lumber dispute has easily become the thorniest trade issue between the United States and Canada, and many economists believe it goes back to the colonial era.
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Asked about the president's planned visit to the Western Wall, his administration wandered into one of the region's thorniest issues: control over the holy sites of Jerusalem.
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One of the biggest determinants of Facebook's ability to finally pull the trigger on commerce will be its ability to solve its biggest and thorniest problem — payments.
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Migration, and in particular the question of family reunions, are one of the thorniest issues in coalition talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and Germany's Social Democrats (SPD).
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This seems like a fine time to get into the thorniest question when it comes to applying for an Amazon job: Do you really want to work there?
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As important as it was to increase the flow of information going from the government to citizens, they also needed to deal with the thorniest question of all.
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"To be sure, a limited (low-hanging) 'phase one' deal (which circumvents thorniest of issues such as China's industrial, IP and technology transfer) is within grasp," Varathan said.
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That allows those three center entries to be a teeny bit longer, but I'd bet that for most solvers the center "stack" wasn't the thorniest patch of clues.
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Perhaps the thorniest issue thus far has been the state and local tax deduction, which allows people to deduct their state and local income, sales and property taxes.
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While attending to ballet — always the thorniest of dance arts, as controversial as it is prestigious — I draw attention to two very unalike trends: one heartening, one dismaying.
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As Canada, Mexico and the United States reconvene in Ottawa this weekend for a third round of trade talks, they are plunging into some of Nafta's thorniest issues.
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The status of Jerusalem — home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions — has been one of the thorniest issues in long-running Mideast peace efforts.
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Times Insider The weekly culture podcast, hosted by two New York Times Magazine staff writers, tackles some of culture's thorniest questions with the accessibility of dinner party dialogue.
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The documents seized by prosecutors could shed light on the president's relationship with a lawyer who has helped navigate some of Mr. Trump's thorniest personal and business dilemmas.
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While it would have been entirely understandable for him to sink into deep depression, instead he turned his mind to one of the thorniest problems of modern physics.
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In Tripped Up, I will help Times readers get restitution for their thorniest travel misadventures while providing tips and takeaways that steer onlookers away from the same fate.
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In Tripped Up, our columnist Sarah Firshein helps The Times's readers resolve their thorniest real-life travel disasters, one terrible, no good, very bad experience at a time.
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That is one of the thorniest issues that congressional Republicans are facing as they look to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and they are looking to governors for advice.
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Long ago, business leaders accepted the notion that they must sometimes "go slow to go fast" when it comes to making big strategic decisions about their thorniest problems.
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And it's something he's willing to put the time in to do, even if that means his personal perspective on the thorniest policy issues remains somewhat of a mystery.
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Talking to the top people in it, trying to work our way through the thorniest questions of it and recognizing that what we're doing here is laying the groundwork.
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Google is trying, yet again, to address one of the thorniest problems in the Android world: Remarkably few phones get upgraded to the latest versions of the operating system.
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But there was limited, if any, progress on the thorniest issues: those regulations the White House is explicitly putting on the table in an effort to navigate a compromise.
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The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest disputes between Israel and the Palestinians and Palestinian leaders accused Trump of sowing instability by overturning decades of U.S. policy.
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But he saved his thorniest barbs for Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who endorsed Mr. Trump after labeling him a "dangerous con artist" during their bitter primary battle.
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In the last week, businesses have faced perhaps their thorniest conundrum, caught between a global outcry, a vacuum of leadership from Washington and a country with a long memory.
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And "Toni Erdmann," proceeding in a perfectly straightforward manner, from one awkward, heartfelt, hilarious scene to the next, wraps itself around some of the thorniest complexities of contemporary reality.
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Other world powers have not done so, sidestepping one of the thorniest disputes between Israel and the Palestinians, who want their own state with East Jerusalem as the capital.
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While both Democrats and Republicans agree they are staring down the barrel of a crisis if funding is not secured, negotiations involve one of the thorniest political issues: border security.
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The new president, who seems attracted to disruption, can break this rule, using the embassy move to jump-start the moribund peace negotiations and deal with the thorniest issue first.
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Agriculture accounts for a relatively small part of the GDP of NAFTA members, but it will be one of the thorniest topics in the renegotiation talks due to start in August.
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Seventy-five nations have agreed to participate in World Trade Organization talks, beginning in March, on cross-border e-commerce, one of the fastest-growing and thorniest areas of global trade.
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President Trump The second leg of President Trump's first overseas trip as President has him grappling with one of the world's thorniest issues -- trying to find peace in the Middle East.
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Thankfully, the folks at the nonprofit Internet Society are here to help make sense of it all with a detailed investigation into some of the thorniest problems facing the online world.
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It hired an anesthesiologist to treat chronic pain, relieving its primary care doctors and nurse practitioners of their thorniest burden and letting them concentrate on conditions they feel more comfortable treating.
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The status of Jerusalem — home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions — is one of the thorniest obstacles to reaching a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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It attempts to address one of the thorniest problems any candidate pushing for a single-payer system in the US faces: how much to pay the country&aposs doctors and hospitals.
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The status of Jerusalem - home to sites holy to the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religions - is one of the thorniest obstacles to forging a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Perhaps the thorniest issue thus far has been how to handle the state and local tax deduction, which allows people to deduct their state and local income, sales and property taxes.
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Assembled over the past several months by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, this proposal does not address some of the thorniest elements of the immigration debate.
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Milley also becomes Joint Chiefs chairman at a time when the Pentagon has been trying to stay out of the thorniest political issue to date, the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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Limiting the number of foreigners who enter Britain was a major reason Britons voted to leave the EU in 2016, and immigration is one of the thorniest issues in the Brexit negotiations.
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Plants have developed a powerful process for turning atmospheric CO2 into useful structures, we can't afford to keep ignoring this tremendous leg up nature has given us on solving humanity's thorniest problem.
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In so doing, he has upended seven decades of U.S. foreign policy, garnered near universal international condemnation and stepped into the thorniest section of what may be the world's most thorny issue.
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One of the thorniest questions of the talks was how to deliver relief to the battered airline industry, whose representatives burned up the phone lines over the weekend and Monday calling senators.
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Times Insider My "Adolescence" column addresses the thorniest aspects of teenagerdom — including how to talk about vaping, drugs and sex, or what to do when they won't talk to you at all.
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That will be the thorniest issue, as the US wants to North Korea to give up its entire nuclear arsenal and stop all its efforts to build newer and more powerful weapons.
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She knew we needed to save the rainforest, and she was the first person to teach me how a well-timed, well-executed eye-roll could save you from the thorniest of social situations.
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And the political track may hit a wall at the next round of negotiations in Geneva, which is meant to address the most important and thorniest element of the political process: a negotiated transition.
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One of the thorniest issues between the U.S. and China over the last two years, accusations of forced technology transfers and intellectual property theft, should be remedied in the first phase deal, Mnuchin said.
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It would also help circumvent one of the thorniest issues involved in building a physical wall, eminent domain, or the need the government would have to seize land from private owners along the border.
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While the strategy was meant to set a unified approach to tackling the world's thorniest problems, Monday's rollout showed the divisions within the Trump administration over Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.
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Second, the four pillars above are all well and good, but they don't really offer many specifics when it comes to dealing with some of the thorniest foreign policy issues, as some Democrats freely admit.
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Secessionist ambitions in Catalonia, which accounts for around a fifth of the country's economy and is home to Spain's second-biggest city Barcelona, are one of the thorniest issues facing Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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Bad for Trump: The measure has bounced around near all-time lows for years now, and boosting the rate, or at least slowing its decline is one of the thorniest policy goals of the day.
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Such a challenge is at its thorniest in the Central African Republic, a landlocked country in the heart of the continent boasting large sections of rain forest and haltingly emerging from years of civil war.
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Technical experts worked past midnight on Monday, but left some of the thorniest issues for environment ministers and senior officials who have arrived in Madrid for the high-level section of the talks on Tuesday.
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Labor standards and enforcement of those rules in the new agreement have proven to be among the thorniest issues that House Democrats are still working to address in negotiations with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
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Technical experts worked past midnight on Monday, but left some of the thorniest issues for environment ministers and senior officials – who have arrived in Madrid for the high-level section of the talks on Tuesday.
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Addressing a rise in homelessness, perhaps the thorniest issue perplexing the administration, was not among the major 2013 campaign commitments; reforms to address it are among the 850 or so commitments made since the election.
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So some banks have dealt with their thorniest delinquent mortgages by selling them to upstart firms willing to buy loans at a steep discount on the gamble that they will have better luck restructuring them.
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Investors assessed a slew of headlines on the talks, with top trade negotiators from the two countries meeting to wrap up a week of discussions on some of the thorniest issues in their trade war.
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Representatives from the three countries who have met for two rounds of talks say they have made progress, but the thorniest points, such as whether salaries for Mexican workers should be raised, have not been discussed.
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But it doesn't delve into some of the thorniest hate speech questions, like semantic tweaks that turn ugly sentiments into acceptable opinions — "migrants are dirt" versus "migrants are dirty," to cite one example from last year.
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The thorniest content issues are decided by a group of top executives at Facebook, and there have been extensive internal conversations at the company in recent months over content controversies, people familiar with the discussions say.
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The Medicaid expansion has provided health insurance to about 11 million people, and what to do about it is one of the thorniest questions facing the Senate as it begins work on its ObamaCare repeal plan.
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This weekend he might discover that burden-sharing is just another word for multilateralism – an often frustrating, slow-moving process of global policy engagement that nonetheless holds the best hope for tackling the world's thorniest problems.
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As a consequence, Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump met without a draft agreement, as the negotiators from both sides left it to their leaders to sort out the thorniest problems that have bedeviled negotiations for decades.
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Some of its thorniest problems come from countries that have joined since 2004 — the longstanding border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia; Turkey's presence in Cyprus; and, perhaps most significantly, the antidemocratic actions of Poland and Hungary.
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At a time when mainstream games insist on being "apolitical" to appease the worst factions of their player base, DONTNOD's bravery and unprecedented willingness to wrestle with the thorniest issues of the day can't be overstated.
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Medicaid was one the thorniest issues Republicans faced in the fight over an ObamaCare repeal, and the Senate's bill was ultimately doomed by lawmakers who objected to the effect of the Medicaid provisions on their states.
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Fate of Palestinian refugees Even though there were no new details of the political side of the proposal, Kushner did address the fate of Palestinian refugees, long seen as one of the thorniest issues in the conflict.
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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama held "candid" discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the thorniest issues in the relationship between the world's two largest economies, the White House said in a statement on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NAFTA negotiatiors made some progress on less controversial issues this week but left untouched the thorniest subjects of autos, dispute settlement and an expiry clause to be tackled at pivotal talks in January in Montreal.
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Immigration, however, is the thorniest political issue in the Brexit negotiations, and limiting the number of foreigners who enter the UK was a central element on which Britain's overall 2016 vote to leave the European Union rested.
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The oppressive Oklahoma heat defined water as a park priority and pushed Mr. Van Valkenburgh toward his thorniest task: connecting Gathering Place to the Arkansas River by extending the park in two places over a busy roadway.
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Leaders of the G20 industrialized nations meeting in Argentina next week are expected to struggle to agree on a joint statement on two of the biggest, and thorniest, global issues on their agenda - trade and climate change.
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This time, it centers on talks between China and the Vatican to bridge their historical differences by settling the thorniest issue dividing them: control of the bishops and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church in China.
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One of the thorniest problems facing Senate negotiators is how to boost the broader economy and protect individuals and families who may not be able to meet short-term financial obligations, such as rent and mortgage payments.
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Immigration is one of the thorniest issues facing Italian politicians, who have had to deal with the arrival of more than half a million mainly sub-Saharan Africans by boat from Libya over the last three years.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators for Mexico and the United States have reached agreement on about 20 topics during talks to revamp NAFTA, Mexico's economy minister said on Thursday, although he conceded that some of the thorniest issues remained unresolved.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incoming White House national security adviser John Bolton's history of clashes with U.S. intelligence agencies suggests how he might handle North Korea and Iran, two of the thorniest challenges he and U.S. President Donald Trump face.
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The Rohingya crisis is one of the biggest man-made disasters involving a member since ASEAN was founded in 1967, and it is one of the thorniest issues yet faced by a group that traditionally works by consensus.
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"Of all the issues facing the president-elect and his brain trust, the question of how to avoid conflicts of interest with his global business may be the thorniest," its editorial board said in an editorial published Monday.
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One of the thorniest issues will be how to restrict freedom of movement in order to bring down immigration, a key concern for many Brexit voters, whilst retaining unfettered access to the single market, fundamental to many businesses.
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If the financial settlement, which many British businesses have argued May should make in order to avoid a disruptive "cliff edge" departure from the single market, is forthcoming, the thorniest outstanding issue is that of the Irish border.
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One level deeper: The report, running more than 200 pages, goes deep on details and specific recommendations, but avoids some of the thorniest parts of this debate — including whether to advocate for a price on carbon dioxide emissions.
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By recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the city, Trump not only upended decades of U.S. policies in plain disregard of international law, but he also took one of the thorniest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict off the table.
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Seen by many inside the Beltway as the Holy Grail of policy accomplishments, it is also the thorniest of issues to tackle, as demonstrated by the lack of a major tax code rewrite in the past 30 years.
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Successive U.S. administrations as well as the international community have not recognized Israel's annexation of the eastern part of the city, and the future status of Jerusalem remains one of the thorniest issues in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
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Still, the simple fact that North Korea continues to develop and test missiles — let alone nuclear weapons — means it will be one of the thorniest and most complex issues confronting President Donald Trump during his time in office.
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The Rohingya crisis is one of the biggest man-made disasters involving a member since ASEAN was founded in 1967, and it is one of the thorniest issues yet faced by a group that traditionally works by consensus.
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On the policy front, the thorniest issue will probably be the League's insistence on greater powers for the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto, two League strongholds where referendums on local autonomy were held and won in 2017.
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But few have addressed one of the thorniest challenges of climate change: the fact that many Americans are being or will be forced out of their homes because of severe flooding, wildfires, or other events exacerbated by warming.
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Because it pushes workers to the less productive parts of the economy, automation also helps explain one of the economy's thorniest paradoxes: Despite the spread of information technology, robots and artificial intelligence breakthroughs, overall productivity growth remains sluggish.
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Many of the thorniest issues, however, can't be solved by the two Koreas alone, leaving their leaders to focus on inter-Korean relations while trying to set the stage for Kim's expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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"Commitment to these two tasks, plus the return of funds to the Treasury, make the BNDES presidency one of the thorniest and riskiest jobs in this government," the Brasilia-based consultancy Capital Politico said in a note to clients.
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WITH a large group of white nationalists coming to Washington, DC—an overwhelmingly liberal, minority-white city—this weekend, one of the thorniest issues for the city has been how to prevent violent clashes on its public-transport system.
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Of the many complex issues Facebook faces, some of the thorniest emerged during the November hearings in Washington when Facebook, Google, and Twitter were called into Congress to discuss Russia's manipulation of their platforms during the 2016 presidential election.
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While each of his actions rattled Washington, Mr. Trump's appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker as the acting attorney general, replacing the ousted Jeff Sessions, raised the thorniest ethical and legal questions, according to lawyers and former Justice Department officials.
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But the thorniest issue is the nature of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because its status hinges on some understanding of the future trading relationship between Britain and the bloc, which remains up in the air. Mrs.
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It was not clear how significant a role, if any, the thorniest issue between Russia and the West — the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States after the seizure of Crimea — would play in the meeting.
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Fishing rights is one of the thorniest issues facing British and EU negotiators who face a race against time to clinch a deal on their future relationship, including on trade, before the end of a transition period on Dec.
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While budget talks have been working through a number of sticking points, including domestic versus defense spending caps, children's health insurance and disaster relief, it is immigration that has proved the thorniest issue for either side to budge on.
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He came into the role with no foreign policy experience beyond holding staunch pro-Israel positions, and he was tasked with helping negotiate one of the world's thorniest foreign policy challenges that successive US administrations have failed to solve.
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On a visit to Berlin, May said it was clear the British people wanted more control over immigration, but underlined that good trade was vital for the economy, offering little insight into her stance on the thorniest part of future talks.
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The White House does not plan to unveil the political component of its peace plan -- which would address the thorniest issues of the conflict like statehood, the status of Jerusalem, security issues and refugees -- until after Israeli elections in September.
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Why it matters: The stark split among giant automakers signals how the powerful industry is struggling to navigate through one of the thorniest regulatory fights in years — and one being fought over a pillar of the Obama-era climate agenda.
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The news follows a week in which hopes have risen that the United States, Mexico and Canada could be closer to a consensus on one of the thorniest issues surrounding renegotiation of NAFTA - regional content levels for the auto industry.
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But the two leaders glossed over some of the thorniest matters, including a Saudi threat to dump U.S. assets if Obama signs into law a bill that could make the kingdom liable for damages stemming from the September 2750 terror attacks.
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The border between Northern Ireland and Ireland that will be Britain's only land frontier with the EU after Brexit is proving the thorniest issue in Brexit talks and EU leaders will express concern on Friday over the lack of progress.
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Raab said the government's proposal on the post-Brexit border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland - one of the thorniest issues in reaching an agreement - was the only credible one, Germany's Spiegel Online reported on Tuesday.
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In departure from Trump, US general says China must be part of North Korea solution But, Tillerson is the country's top diplomat -- the person charged with finding solutions that go beyond simple rhetoric to these thorniest of foreign policy challenges.
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After proposing a $60 billion aid package for the region last summer, he has yet to unveil a proposed political plan that gets at the thorniest issues in the decades-old conflict, with Netanyahu struggling to form a governing coalition.
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You may have bested all your opponents in the cage but now you're squaring off with the Irish legal system, the European Court of Human Rights, and the sum total of precedent on perhaps the thorniest issue in democratic jurisprudence.
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These are young and hungry guerilla scientists committed to democratizing DNA the way the internet did for information, with the ambition to build never-before-seen organisms that could solve the thorniest challenges in food, health, energy, and environmental protection.
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The debate over the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes in what is now Israel -- long upheld by Palestinian officials -- is among the thorniest issues that must be addressed as part of a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
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Few boss fights in Dark Souls stand out more than when you're tasked with staring down Ornstein and Executioner Smough, a formidable duo—one big and lumbering, the other small and agile—that proves one of the game's thorniest roadblocks.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warmly welcomed King Salman of Saudi Arabia under the gleaming chandeliers of the Kremlin on Thursday, signaling a rapprochement between two longtime rivals who have faced off in some of the world's thorniest conflicts.
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Whether the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the 1948 war of Israel's founding, who with their descendants now number around 5 million, would exercise a right of return has been among the thorniest issues in decades of difficult diplomacy.
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Bachelet said in a statement that she had the government's commitment to work with the United Nations to resolve some of the thorniest issues, including the use of torture and access to justice, and to allow full access to detention facilities.
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WASHINGTON — Hoping to defuse a Republican rebellion, Speaker Paul D. Ryan promised Thursday that House Republicans would draft compromise legislation on immigration, setting up a showdown on one of the thorniest political issues just as the midterm campaign comes into focus.
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For Britain, the thorniest part about leaving the European Union has proved to be the Irish border, an invisible line between Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the European Union.
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Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland of Canada and Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo of Mexico were expected to kick off trilateral talks on some of the pact's thorniest issues over dinner in Washington on Thursday night.
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The protests, which show no sign of abating, pose the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012 and are Hong Kong's thorniest political crisis since Britain returned it to China in 1997.
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The settlement would not end the ongoing lawsuit over the original separations and ongoing reunifications, but it would resolve one of the thorniest issues in the lawsuits: Do children have their own right to pursue asylum protections in the US?
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A chorus of international leaders criticized the Trump administration's decision on Wednesday to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, calling it a dangerous disruption that contravenes United Nations resolutions and could inflame one of the world's thorniest conflicts.
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Major employers, from Walmart to Caterpillar, have tried for years to tackle the high costs and complexity of health care, and have grown increasingly frustrated as Congress has deadlocked over the issue, leaving many of the thorniest issues to private industry.
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Republicans including House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan have vowed to get tax legislation to Trump's desk before the end of 2017, but pass-throughs are one of the thorniest issues in their effort to enact the first comprehensive tax overhaul since 1986.
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After months of stalled negotiations, the two sides finally thought they had reached a breakthrough this week that solved some of the thorniest issues of the divorce, and provided for a transition period so they could work out a future trade deal.
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The status of Jerusalem, which is home to Muslim, Jewish and Christian holy sites, is one of the thorniest obstacles to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, who were furious over Trump's move and have declined to meet with Pence.
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But the partners' briefing against the ambassador to a key lawmaker at a time when the federal government was picking up its enforcement of FARA raised "the thorniest red flag," said Ron Oleynik, a Washington attorney and expert on anti-bribery laws.
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At Elucd, which is graduating from the latest batch of Y Combinator startups, Simon is looking to take the skills he'd honed on the campaign trail and apply them to one of the thorniest problems facing the country today — how to improve policing.
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Northern Ireland is into a second year of a political crisis that has left it without a devolved administration, and the future management of its land border with EU-member Ireland is one of the thorniest issues outstanding in talks with Brussels.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators on Friday began digging into some of the thorniest issues in modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement, including rules of origin for goods produced in the region, services trade and a controversial dispute settlement system.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Morocco rejoined the club of African states on Tuesday, 33 years after quitting over recognition of Western Sahara, bringing one of Africa's largest economies into the fold and raising hopes of a softening of one of its thorniest territorial disputes.
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One of the thorniest problems remaining in the negotiations is how to avoid a disruptive post-Brexit "hard border" for troubled Northern Ireland on the United Kingdom's only land border with the EU. Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; Editing by Susan Thomas
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KEVIN LOVE In Cleveland, Kevin Love is looking to move past the thorniest season of his career by embracing a role that doesn't see him touching the ball nearly as often as he did in his All-Star seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Ties deteriorated again this month when South Korea undermined an agreement of 2015 that was supposed "finally and irreversibly" to have settled the thorniest dispute of all, over the "comfort women"—South Koreans forced during the war to work in Japanese military brothels.
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Negotiators, struggling to find agreement on some of the thorniest provisions of the trade deal, will take an extended break to consult with politicians and interest groups before convening again in Mexico City for the fifth round of talks in mid-November.
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After decades of bitter disagreement, Beijing and the Holy See appear to be on the cusp of a historic accord to resolve one of the thorniest issues between the two -- a development that is dividing the church's followers in China and beyond.
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One of the thorniest issues is getting Britain to guarantee that the three million citizens of other European Union nations who are living in Britain and the 1.2 million Britons living in the European Union can maintain their residency rights and other entitlements.
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But Kudlow's upbeat assessment contrasted with reports from two people familiar with the talks, who said progress has been difficult on the thorniest issues involving U.S. demands that China make sweeping changes to curb forced technology transfers and to enforce intellectual property rights.
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Fears of cheaper import competition for European carmakers and Japanese dairy producers were among the thorniest issues, but officials said the two sides were driven by a shared alarm at Trump's apparent shift away from multilateral open trading systems towards an aggressive "America First" policy.
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Britain is trying to overcome one of the thorniest issues in the Brexit negotiations: a "backstop" deal to protect an open border between Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, and EU member Ireland, should the UK leave the EU without an overall exit agreement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, two White House officials said on Thursday, tapping someone with no prior policy or political experience to deal with some of the world's thorniest issues.
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Among the thorniest questions hanging over experts puzzling out the future of work is what kind of new jobs will be enabled by AI and robotics — and how many there will be, relative to the work that is likely to disappear due to automation.
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Since Kerry returned home from China Monday night, Washington and Moscow have been trying to narrow differences on the thorniest issues blocking a ceasefire in Aleppo -- access in and out of the city and the mingling of moderate opposition with al Qaeda-linked Nusra militants.
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Sources close to the negotiations say Tusk hopes some of the thorniest issues, notably around migration, can be smoothed out this weekend so he can send out a draft package to the other 27 leaders early next week, paving the way for a summit agreement.
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The show tackles some of culture's thorniest questions and relies on a special blend of the hosts' kaleidoscopic views of the world, their critical thinking skills and their expertise — Mr. Morris as a film critic and Ms. Wortham as a former business and technology reporter.
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May, under pressure from Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party for settling for a standstill transition with the EU when almost nothing changes, has long wanted to discuss future ties with the bloc, a conversation her government believes can settle some of the thorniest issues.
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With the memory of the nation's longest government shutdown still fresh in their minds, White House officials and congressional leaders are pushing for a temporary agreement in the coming weeks to hold off a funding breach and allow more time to resolve the thorniest issues.
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David N. Dinkins sat in the front row of the Apollo Theater, his hands folded atop his cane, awaiting a State of the City address Monday night from his protégé-turned-mayor, Bill de Blasio, that would tackle the thorniest issues before New York.
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But the expectations on the 2020 hopefuls to talk candidly about their own experiences, and how they relate to some of the country's thorniest and deep-seated challenges, are not only being placed on the shoulders of the women and racial minorities in the field.
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May's speech did offer some proposals to solve some of the thorniest problems thrown up by Brexit, especially over Ireland, after the EU set out in a draft withdrawal agreement a backup plan that effectively would see Northern Ireland remain part of the EU's customs union.
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While the status of the EU's only land border with the United Kingdom was perhaps the thorniest issue, the deal safeguarding the rights of 3 million EU citizens in Britain and around 1.2 million Britons living elsewhere in the EU will affect households across the continent.
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One of the thorniest issues is what is known as the duty day calculation, also dubbed the "jock tax" - the portion of a player's W-2 wages earned in any of the 43 states where income is taxed and in which they have trained or played games.
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Top trade negotiators from the two countries met to wrap up a week of talks on some of the thorniest issues in their trade war, with President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He set to meet at the Oval Office later in the day.
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The global climate talks ended in Madrid on Sunday after a grueling all-night negotiating session with officials punting the thorniest issues to next year; the most vulnerable countries clashed with the United States and other large polluters about halting climate pollution and paying for the crisis.
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Johnson has sent representatives to restart discussions with the EU over the Irish backstop, an insurance policy to protect the border between the U.K. and Europe on the island of Ireland that proved the thorniest of issues in the agreement that was previously negotiated during Theresa May's premiership.
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The gay and queer community may have a rat's nest of hang ups when it comes to our self-esteem, our relationship with masculinity, and how we treat each other as human beings, but it sometimes can feel like our relationship with race is the thorniest of all.
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The Rohingya crisis is one of the biggest man-made disasters involving a member since ASEAN was founded in 1967, and it is one of the thorniest issues yet faced by a group that traditionally works by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in matters deemed internal to its members.
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At Stanford, however, that effort has set off a particularly vigorous debate, as a school that is an innovator across fields and has a sterling image to protect faces a community in which many believe it has fallen short of leading on one of the thorniest issues of the day.
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The issue of foreign workers promises to be one of the thorniest because migration featured so prominently in the Leave campaign while the free movement of people is a key element of the EU's single market for goods and services - something to which the UK wants to keep as much access as possible.
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The issue of foreign workers promises to be one of the thorniest because migration featured so prominently in the Leave campaign while the free movement of people is a key element of the EU's single market for goods and services – something to which the UK wants to keep as much access as possible.
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Protracted Brexit negotiations and disagreements have plagued the pound, as politicians failed to reach a consensus over some of the thorniest issues that need solving: the question of the Irish border and the customs union, and the trade area encompassing all EU member states that enables the free movement of people and goods.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is putting the finishing touches on its long-awaited Middle East peace plan, three senior officials said on Sunday, and President Trump is likely to present it soon, despite risking swift rejection by the Palestinians and having already taken on another of the world's thorniest disputes, with North Korea.
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ANCHORAGE — A deadly shooting rampage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport this month has focused attention on the interconnection of public safety and mental illness and raised questions, especially here in Alaska, about one of the thorniest questions of psychology: how to tell if someone is delusional and dangerous, or merely delusional.
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Representing a range of views, including a contingent seen as sympathetic to Moscow, they positioned themselves as brokers who could help solve one of the thorniest foreign policy problems facing the new administration — the ugly military stalemate between Russia and Ukraine and the tough sanctions imposed on Moscow following its seizure of Crimea.
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At his latest appearance in parliament, where divisions over how to leave the EU were on display, Raab moved to downplay one of the thorniest parts of the talks - a so-called backstop arrangement to prevent the return of a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
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"Every week, we're picking a new topic — the racial wealth gap or monogamy or cryptocurrency — and trying to give people a real understanding, talking to the top people in it, trying to work our way through the thorniest questions of it, and recognizing that what we're doing here is laying the groundwork," Klein said.
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Five months later, Prince would be forced to make a very public decision about the Daily Stormer, one made against his own best judgment and that presented some of the thorniest and most perplexing challenges to free speech since the ACLU defended neo-Nazis who planned to march in Skokie, Illinois, 40 years ago.
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And as John Kerry prepares to step down as secretary of state next month, he will carry it with him just as he has for 403 years: a deep-seated belief that America -- and, indeed, he -- can solve some of the world's thorniest problems with the right mix of politics, diplomacy, perseverance and personal charm.
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The next round of talks is due at the end of the month, with both sides looking for progress towards a solution to three of Brexit's thorniest problems: how much Britain should pay to leave, what rights British and EU citizens will have, and how to manage a land border to the bloc in Ireland.
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The last-minute change to the healthcare bill before recess is a way to show progress on a bill even though there is no agreement on the thorniest issue facing Republicans: What to do about calls from the conservative House Freedom Caucus to allow states waivers to repeal ObamaCare protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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The use of my film as evidence against Mr. Tashi gets at the heart of one of the thorniest issues that can plague foreign journalists: How do we justify instances when our work — aimed at giving voice to the voiceless and holding the powerful to account — ends up putting its subjects at risk or in danger?
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Trump's chorus of validators fanned out this week to declare him a "genius" for "using" the tax code to avoid paying taxes – but the real genius may have been Pence who figured out the best way to answer the thorniest questions about Trump was to respond with an attack on Kaine, or the moderator Elaine Quijano.
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That task will likely post the thorniest challenge to architects of the initial nine-page "framework" unveiled last week by the Trump administration that was drawn up by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn, House Speaker Paul Ryan, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch.
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In fact, we're thrilled to announce that Sacks is coming to Disrupt in San Francisco to talk about the company's arc — from what went wrong, to how he has addressed Zenefits' thorniest issues, to why, if all goes as planned, Zenefits will be known as a company that supports entrepreneurship rather than a company that prides itself on growing fast at all costs.
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In a leaked interview published by Wired on Monday, Kushner — President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been tasked with brokering a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians, among other high-profile assignments — provided the deepest insight we've gotten to date about how he is approaching the herculean job of negotiating one of the world's thorniest conflicts.
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The thorniest question facing Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and his top lieutenants is what protections should be extended to so-called Dreamers — immigrants who came to the country illegally as children — and whether they should be granted a path to citizenship.
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The arrangements for the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic remains one of the thorniest issues of Brexit and has repeatedly threatened to derail talks with the EU. One financial lawyer said the transition deal simply pushes forward the "cliff edge" for financial firms to the end of 2020, unless backed by other measures to underpin insurance and derivatives contracts that go out several years.
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The world was riveted this week by the meeting in Hanoi between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Last year's initial summit between the two leaders in Singapore created nearly giddy hope for an end to the longstanding hostility between the United States and North Korea, particularly the resolution of the thorniest issue of all: North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program.
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It comes a day after May won a vote in parliament on her Brexit plans, facing down rebels within her ruling Conservative Party who favor closer ties with the EU. Britain will leave the EU in March next year, but a transitional trade agreement has not been finalised and there are disagreements among May's top team over how much effort to put into maintaining close ties with the EU. Financial services are one of the thorniest issues facing Brexit negotiators.
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