Creating a reference work on American food is inherently problematic because the national cuisine, like the country itself, is a mongrel creation.

Although the word has come to describe a trend of dress and culture modeled after African-Americans, it is inherently problematic because of its origins.

Indeed, it is the contentious meaning of the term "equality" itself that makes measuring gender equality "progress" inherently problematic.

The idea of storing an object with plant material is inherently problematic to an archival collection because of the possibility of insect infestation.

A general, diffused providence which has no particular manifestations whatever is an inherently problematic concept.

Ms. Oberdorfer, a child-protection worker in Minneapolis, sees those same adoptions as inherently problematic.

"I look out this window, there is not one building that is owned by blacks and Hispanics, and that's inherently problematic," he said then.

It has been argued that forms of control over state enterprises are inherently problematic.

Both Michael Crichton and Proust take on the inherently problematic emotional imperative to recover elements of lost time.

"It is inherently problematic as a genre," he said.