These are not easy lessons to absorb for the political minefield that is academia.

Each of the 13 bills carries its own political minefields.

They know that everybody is sick of the war and it's a political minefield.

Some said that the cancer institute was being extremely cautious in a political minefield.

The new law was intended to get around just such objections, and had become a political minefield.

He has also taken his first steps into the political minefield that awaits him.

Evidently, a political and legal minefield has been opened.

In the late seventies he came under fire for research that led him into the political minefield of racial genetics.

Other water districts object to the plan, and the issue has become a political minefield.

The situation makes the new effort by Senate Democrats to turn the focus on the use of intelligence a political minefield.