Sentence examples for devilishly from inspiring English sources

RB The devilishly labyrinthine process to select our book of the year continues, with the judges so far deadlocked.

But there is a reason for this: it is devilishly hard to adapt.

It has set a record for the number of leg-before-wicket (LBW) dismissals a devilishly complex law of the game in a three-match series.

Devilishly complicated "rules of origin", which define how much local content is required before a good is considered South African and thus eligible for preferential access to the EU, entangle investors in red tape and will deter many from setting up shop in South Africa.The biggest losers from all these sweetheart deals are the countries they exclude.

The most egregious kleptocratic excess can be devilishly hard to establish to the satisfaction of the courts.

The issue is simple but devilishly contentious: how should an enormous pot of money be divided?

But it is devilishly difficult to make a machine in which fabric goes in one end and finished garments, such as jeans and T-shirts, come out the other.

A rise in rates sufficient to prick a bubble could push the economy into recession.Dealing with bubbles is devilishly difficult, but Mr Greenspan overstates his case.

Other laws in France enshrine a 35-hour working week and regulations that make laying off staff devilishly hard.

At the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan, he feels "a sense from the audience around me that there's an old automatic…bigoted and prejudicial response to this music…It is a very frustrating attitude; people have grown up with it, and it can be devilishly hard to persuade them to evolve away from it".Ms Kelly is confident that the festival will go some way to persuade reluctant listeners.

It's ridiculous, it's ethnically offensive, and its entire purpose is to serve as a smokescreen for disastrously violent policies backed by militarists in Israel and in neo-conservative American circles, by making American voters worry that they are being taken for chumps by those devilishly clever double-dealers from the souks of Tehran.