0 an area by the side of a football pitch where a manager, coaches, and substitutes sit during a game, with an area marked by white lines where a team's manager can stand to give instructions to the team:
Identifying the subgroup of patients in which the drug is likely to benefit most is a difficult technical area, one that we have had to consider carefully and frequently.
I therefore welcome the review as a major and important contribution in this difficult and technical area.
I appreciate that it is a technical area and that it is also sensitive in many ways.
We have looked carefully into the technical area of what may or may not be dumping.
We are once again in this difficult and technical area of legal privilege and the relationship between a solicitor and his client.
In addition, career development is much easier when people do not have to uproot themselves simply in order to work in a different technical area.
We are venturing into the technical area of how long cars last and whether it is better to replace them and so on.
I shall try to express my reservations, which are a little tentative, because this is a highly technical area.
