Sentence examples for circuitous history from inspiring English sources

Because of its circuitous history — once illegal to grow, and now legal but heavily regulated — cannabis has cast a unique footprint on the environment and the communities of farmers who grow it.

6 p.m. 1. Secessionist Seduction Sarajevo's circuitous history lesson begins with dinner at 4 Sobe Gospode Safije (the Four Rooms of Mrs. Safija), which occupies a house built in 1910, during the city's 40-year Hapsburg Empire epoch, by an Austrian count for a local woman named Safija.

Sarajevo's circuitous history lesson begins with dinner at 4 Sobe Gospode Safije (the Four Rooms of Mrs. Safija), which occupies a house built in 1910, during the city's 40-year Hapsburg Empire epoch, by an Austrian count for a local woman named Safija.

The word "kludge" (or "kluge") has such a circuitous history, and one of great debate.

This circuitous history is evident in the nickname Black Nova Scotians continue to use for their province, "The Mississippi of the North," and in incidents such as the 2010 burning of a cross on the lawn of an interracial couple, accompanied by shouts of "die nigger die".

The search for the infectious agents responsible for cat-scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and related syndromes has a long and often circuitous history.

Despots' cars have taken circuitous routes through history, with some crossing the auction block, others being spirited away into private collections and a few going to museums.

Mitt Romney completed one of the most circuitous comebacks in political history on Tuesday, with voters in Utah electing the one-time Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee to be the state's next senator.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History details the circuitous route the couple took to find a backer to send Joshi to America.

One page, with a circuitous illustrated diagram that simultaneously led the reader through the story of an unanswered telephone and a family history, took a good 10 minutes to get through, but at the end came a denouement so logical and tidy that it left readers reeling.

History is full of people who arrived at their final destination by a far more circuitous route.