Sentences with word «tortuous»

CNN: My Ethics: In politics, ethics matter more than issues Every four years, we go through a long and tortuous process of winnowing down a field of candidates to the two that are presumably best suited to lead us.

Where interests do not merge, justice treads a more tortuous path.

In the end there is only one Truth and one source of Life in its fullness and that is Jesus Christ, but there may be many and sometimes tortuous routes that people take to find him.

The best argument against this impression is to drive all three types of vehicle (front or rear wheel drive) on a dry tortuous road.

Most wholesalers I read about here don't have a clue as to their liability in tortuous acts of contracting without the real intent to purchase... no clue at all!

Getting the vaccine approved wasn't as tortuous as it has been in Ethiopia.

Rather than wind his way through tortuous twisty genre plots with dazzling visual effects, Nolan keeps «Dunkirk» deceptively simple.

On tortuous Welsh roads, we're grateful for a steering setup that is light and quick — a Ferrari - ism to go along with huge gearshift paddles worthy of any supercar — and plays a good part in making this car feel far less substantial than it actually is.

It's even more tortuous waiting for the brownies to cool and get nice and fudgy after coming out of the oven!

After a long and tortuous journey, we are very close to moving over to our new superfast server... I will be making an announcement very soon.....

He actively handles various types of employment matters for other Firm clients, defending against claims of tortuous interference, contracts, discrimination and unfair competition.

Gerwig is particularly attuned to the whipsaw emotional shifts between mother (the marvelous Laurie Metcalf) and daughter, and the undercurrents of closeness and tension that percolate through this most tortuous of human relationships.

Steering and suspension feedback are pretty numb, but this isn't a car you buy for the thrill of tearing through corners or dancing along tortuous mountain routes.

The questionably tortuous logic of proportionality and costs (reasonably incurred but disproportionate) has morphed into budgeted costs and when the shortcomings of this process became clear, moved on to the exploration of a fixed costs regime — Sir Rupert begins his formal review this month, with the process due to be completed by 31 July 2017.

So while I'd heard other moms» horror stories about 48 tortuous hours of labor, crime - scene - worthy amounts of blood and vaginas literally ripping in half, I shrugged and figured everyone's pain tolerance was different.

The agonisingly tortuous progress of the government's health and social care bill has made the coalition's NHS reform agenda one of its most controversial.

Recently following tortuous clues on TV as a True Detective, Colin Farrell also has an equally strange but slightly lighter movie incoming.

This kind of dense and tortuous plotting is typical of John Le Carré, on whose novel the film is based.

There are so many other options for our pets than this mindless and cruel tortuous way of treating the one's we are supposed to protect.

It's been a long and tortuous wait, but I am seeing the end of the tunnel now.

Fans of the series will likely expect the same tortuous battles but if played long enough, the rewarding ending can be accomplished.

After much tortuous reading of legal filings / documents, I gradually came to the conclusion that this litigation did not represent a real financial risk to Argo.

While the convoluted plot strains credulity somewhat, Park makes tortuous story work better than say, David Fincher (who usually does pretty well).

It often takes years of tortuous negotiations as lawmakers split along regional rather than partisan lines.

A new survey finds that employees are more satisfied at companies with strenuous — but not tortuous — interview processes

Over the years, Hugh and I have gone through the often - tortuous self examination required in the journey of finding our true purpose.

Wrestling with God: The Courts» Tortuous Treatment of Religion by Patrick M. Garry Catholic University Press, 230 pages, $ 22.95

Tortuous times for gunners fans, but there's more pain to come, another transfer window under Wenger, and this one is going to be the mother of all atrocious transfer windows.

I just found your circuitous logic too tortuous.

Cooling the Earth is casually assumed to «buy time» for mitigation but may also cost some time if it introduces adversarial dynamics into an already tortuous political process.

Quoted in a New York Times story, this rather tortuous out - of - body experience is what passes for an apology by a soccer player for the University of New Mexico who became infamous on television and the Internet for a series of shockingly dirty plays, culminating in her violent takedown of an opponent by viciously yanking on her ponytail.

Tortuous efforts to set up a cross-party platform in favour of the alternative vote have finally borne fruit with Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, and Caroline Lucas, the Green party leader, joining forces to back reform.

Check out the trailer above to see Lawrence undergo tortuous training, combat and don unrealistic swimsuits.

At least his years in office weren't marked by these never ending tortuous scandals from the naughy dems who, as we know, take their marching orders from the public unions.

With so many unmanageable and unpredictable variables, whole - school reform will always be tenuous, because it attempts to simply glide by many of the institutional constraints — the variety of programs operating within a school, all with different goals; the requirements of the administrators» and teacher unions» contracts — that make large - scale change so tortuous.

NET Framework has a somewhat tortuous history, and has seen a number of versions over the years.

What followed may have seemed like tortuous, academic theorising about those works.

Electron micrographs show that cell walls fold into the cell to form tortuous invaginated channels into its depths.

Instead, it's a long, circuitous, sometimes tortuous route that seems, at first, better suited to a sports car than what some might call a glorified minivan.

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