Impaling an unwilling subject with a Hemalurgic spike was a very tricky prospect.

Perhaps more realistic than total disarmament, elders in Darfur say, is some kind of truce, but even that remains a tricky prospect, particularly given that there are countless Janjaweed militiamen whose identities are uncertain.

For musicians with long careers, balancing past and present is a tricky prospect that only gets trickier through the years.

Keeping up a closet of well-pressed suits is a tricky prospect for cash-strapped university students, but instructors will insist that it's essential training for the pinstripes and power suits of the corporate world.

It's hardly surprising that literacy rates are low in the poorest American communities, but pinpointing the root of the problem is a trickier prospect.

Integrating economies as divergent as those found in, say, Germany and Portugal, is a tricky prospect.

Faced with the tricky prospect of taking us behind the scenes, he opts for brief memoirs of friends and elders, mostly departed, which are engaging while offering little that is new.

As the best exponent of the doosra (the other one in Urdu) since Muttiah Muralitharan, another variation would make him a very tricky prospect indeed.

Sorting out identity politics in publishing is a tricky prospect.

Pinocchio is a tricky prospect to stage: such a dark, odd story, especially in the original.