Government policy, especially foreign policy, is rife with nuance and complication.
I suspect that barring a complication, Mr. Bush will be up and perhaps leaping, with help, from planes once again.
The Daily Pic: Andrea Longacre-White piles complexity on complication.
This procedure, though generally safe, comes with a small risk of complication, including loss of the fetus.
“I think Bill may be too big a complication,” Plouffe quotes his boss as saying.
Mop died of old age and of a complication of diseases, in the spring of 1892.
Was it to help in such a complication as this that I had been summoned?
So much for the first complication in the tragedy of this man's life.
He needed Sally Winthrop to talk over his complication with him.
There had been some complication in the way of which she had been unable to rid herself.
early 15c., from Middle French complication, from Latin complicationem (nominative complicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of complicare "to fold together, fold up, roll up," from com- "together" (see com-) + plicare "to fold, weave" (see ply (v.1)). Meaning "something that complicates" first recorded 1903.
complication com·pli·ca·tion (kŏm'plĭ-kā'shən)
n.
A pathological process or event occurring during a disease that is not an essential part of the disease; it may result from the disease or from independent causes.