Thicket
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78 examples of Thicket in a sentence
She came charging out of the
thicket
straight towards us, sat next to us, shivering, with her back towards Dereck, and looking out.
We're right in the thick of it, this philosophical
thicket.
The full-headed among us have about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on our scalps, and scientists have discovered two things about this dense
thicket.
That's true in the molecular pandemonium that lets your cells function, the tangled
thicket
of neurons that produces your thoughts and identity, your network of friends and family, all the way up to the structures and economies of our cities across the planet.
He ventured deeper into the tangled
thicket.
Global ChangeI want to start this lecture not in the
thicket
of the European debate, but with a broader view of global changes that affect all countries.
The alternate path, onto which continued political dysfunction would push the world, leads through a
thicket
of parochial and uncoordinated policies to economic recession, greater inequality, and severe financial instability.
Withdrawing from the EU will require uprooting a
thicket
of complex legal and institutional frameworks, around which most political norms and conventions revolve.
The alternative would be the Switzerland model: a nightmarish
thicket
of agreements comprising more than 100 bilateral treaties.
That is why, as the Hyogo Framework comes to an end, it is important to start thinking now about its replacement, which will guide us through the
thicket
of risks emerging in the urbanized, interdependent world of the twenty-first century.
He has already led Turkey into a
thicket
of clashes among its vital interests: its Western alliance, its regional aspirations, and the Kurdish question.
But it would be dangerous to turn the EU framework into a
thicket
of country-specific political bargains.
The first task should be to eliminate – or, at least, reduce – the
thicket
of government regulations that is stifling economic dynamism.
Today, many in the computer industry worry that such a patent
thicket
may impede software development.
Estonia, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia have already succeeded at this;-- the tax system must be simplified and minimized so that other Gazproms cannot avoid taxes in a
thicket
of regulations.
It is this
thicket
of red tape that hampers business and deters entrepreneurs.
South Africa will introduce a statutory minimum wage next year, which will help to protect many vulnerable workers, and could lead to simpler and fairer outcomes than the current
thicket
of collective-bargaining agreements and sectoral determinations.
An increasingly dense “patent thicket” in a world of products requiring thousands of patents has sometimes stifled innovation, with more spent on lawyers than on researchers in some cases.
To his credit, however, he has been effective in navigating the racial
thicket
of Ferguson, Missouri, by turning the killing of an unarmed teenager into a focal point for national action to improve police methods.
Finally, France remains a highly corporatist country, with a multiplicity of health, pension, and family subsidy systems; in an innovation-driven economy where individuals are likely to change jobs and sectors repeatedly over their lifetime, this bureaucratic
thicket
becomes a source of inefficiency and risk.
Even in the United States, there is growing concern that so-called hold-up patents and me-too patents – and the sheer
thicket
of patents, in which any innovation is likely to become entangled in someone else’s IP claims – are diverting scarce research resources away from their most productive uses.
Alckmin has vowed to slash spending, open up the economy, privatize state companies, and clean up the messy legal and regulatory
thicket
that has prevented investment in critical infrastructure like ports, roads, and railways.
Soon, the world economy was a
thicket
of trade barriers.
This is particularly true of female farmers, who face an additional
thicket
of discriminatory land laws and customs.
Over the medium term, it must take an axe to the
thicket
of unwieldy regulations that make businesses so dependent on an agile and cooperative bureaucracy.
Overall, however, a
thicket
of regulations is unnecessary and should be avoided, as the systemic risks that P2P lending poses to the wider economy are small.
Khalilzad has repeatedly claimed progress; in reality, he is struggling to make headway through the Afghan and regional political
thicket.
Its prison-like migrant camps are already overcrowded, and its asylum system is a
thicket
of Byzantine bureaucracy and convoluted laws.
Instead, a confusing
thicket
of private firms, including multinational consulting and accountancy giants like Deloitte, or businesses run by Conservative Party allies have been contracted to administer the scheme.
After crossing through a moderately dense thicket, we again found some plains obstructed by bushes.
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