Sentences with phrase «painfully slow process»

As Russia has opted out of allowing service by post under the Convention, service is effected by the often painfully slow process of the English Court sending a request for service to the Russian Ministry of Justice, which then sends the English proceedings to the relevant court in the area where the defendant officially resides.

A painfully slow process... which often debates semantics and national agendas rather than addressing the validity of the statements, but one which... very seldom in my experience results in a substantial distortion of the message.

Unambiguous detection of climate change is likely to be a painfully slow process, involving much more detailed comparison of climate model results with observations.4 There is no climatic counterpart to the Antarctic ozone hole.

You had to first craft animal pens, then lure the livestock onto your farm which was a painfully slow process.

With alacrity I set about downloading said app — a painfully slow process, what with the wonky Edge in the concrete bunker of an auditorium in which I was sitting.

In the end, digital adaption in hotels is still a painfully slow process.

Sometimes this is a painfully slow process.

Thankfully, we are seeing more positive portrayals of breastfeeding in the media, but it's been a painfully slow process and those positive representations are few and far between.

We've been using the colder weather as an excuse to refresh the house a little, it's a painfully slow process but I'm really pleased with the results so far.

But it's a painfully slow process, taking two years for a plant to produce seeds.

Permits have to be filed and it is a long and painfully slow process.

But building a critical mass of female investors is an ambitious feat that requires a major culture shift, which is proving to be a painfully slow process.

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On the one hand, it may be that postponing a rapid resolution protects us from the most damaging consequences of a crisis, when slower growth and a rising debt burden reinforce each other, while giving us time to rebalance less painfully — the Great depression in the US showed us how damaging the process can be.

But quite frankly, millennials see the process as painfully slow.

Although the mediation in Kenya has been deemed successful, progress on addressing some the structural factors underlying the violence, which were identified as part of this process, have been painfully slow.

During his visit, Comptroller Stringer discussed many of the difficulties small businesses face including a painfully slow approval process and inadequate communication from City agencies.

The renovation process has been slow, painfully slow, but hopefully just a few weeks more before we can move in and begin decorating!

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

the sync process can be painfully slow at times 5.

Plus the process of getting books into brick - and - mortar stores — working through sales teams, distributors, printers, and booksellers — can be painfully slow, so we can get the digital book out the door and making money all while gearing up for the book's print release.

Other more obvious reasons are the exorbitant expense ratio, the painfully slow and opaque realization process, and the deteriorating relationship between Alok Dhir and the Board.

Worse still, S Voice is slow to open, slow to process speech, slow to issue commands, and painfully loud.

Be persistent and seek out communities of accountability, courage, and support to keep you going through the slog of the often painfully slow search process.