0 a type of plant covered with hairs that cause a painful rash if touched -- ต้นไม้ป่าที่มีขนตามใบให้เจ็บ ๆ คัน ๆ
a stinging nettle.
Where some have attempted to ignore international structural changes, others, perhaps grudgingly, have accepted the need for change and grasped the nettle of internal adjustment.
The editors conclude by asking why, in some countries, politicians have grasped the prioritysetting nettle, whilst in others they have failed to do so.
However, they felt that this did not grasp the nettle of community division and conflict between the two sections of the working class.
No one, especially not the police, realized the car was a mere fifty yards away, hiding in a nettle patch.
Government policy is currently not succeeding precisely because it has not grasped this nettle.
The nettle had been grasped: the sting had not proved unbearable.
He immediately commands attention by grasping the nettle of the difficulty that the lord feels in combining the apparently opposing demands on his natural gifts.
One consequence is that gerontologists have fought shy of grasping the legal nettle.