Sentence examples for convoluted method from inspiring English sources

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As the electoral college prepares to meet on Monday to formally elect the next US president, an attempt by activists to overturn Donald Trump's victory has brought renewed attention to the unique, albeit convoluted, method by which the United States elects its president.

This seemingly convoluted method may not seem intuitive at first, but turning a problem on its head can uncover rather obvious solutions to the original problem.

Essentially, you have to know their Twitter handle already to find them, or rely on some other more convoluted method rather than just say, looking them up by name.

But the first release was laughably anti-social as most people spend time in iTunes listening to music they already own and not shopping for new music — or trying to find music they already own to share it via some convoluted method.

Drug trafficking was a much less convoluted method of skirting the congressional ban on funding the Contras, and the CIA's inspector general found that in the early years after Congress cut off Contra funding, the CIA had alerted Congress about the allegations of drug trafficking.

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"Pages and pages of convoluted methods make me worry, though," Dr. Brett said.

This trend is exacerbated when dual-stock structures or other convoluted methods are used to maintain control.

His idea turns out to be far less convoluted than his method of explanation.

Both David Brooks of the New York Times and John Cassidy of the New Yorker, while openly admiring Mr Silver's work, warn that complex calculations can lead to unjustified certainty.That may be true, but there's nothing particularly convoluted about these methods.

And the over-riding doubt is the thinking behind a policy which results in tickets being sold (by methods too convoluted and arcane to detail here) to people who either do not care to or do not bother to watch the tennis, while outside the ground the queues of genuine fans accumulate patiently.

Your boring uncle's card trick – the one where, through the most convoluted of methods, probably involving dividing the pack into piles and counting slowly through them – he triumphantly, and boringly, turned over the card you chose.

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