Sentence examples for difficult and tortuous from inspiring English sources

The difficult and tortuous negotiations over the American withdrawal now coming to an end in Baghdad offer a distorted glimpse of what might have been.

Negotiations over the legal structures of a banking union have proved difficult and tortuous.

Instead critics fear the TIU has gone after low-hanging fruit rather than embarking on the painstaking, difficult-to-prove and tortuous detective work required to prove the less obviously open and shut cases.

However stenting is difficult in tortuous and small caliber vessels posing a high risk of thrombosis like visceral arteries, besides being costlier [ 36].

But if they are not, what is plan B? And why have the nationalists been allowed to get away without a plan B? The second was that the negotiations will be like "disentangling spaghetti" – tortuous, difficult and could get nasty.

That is proving increasingly difficult as tortuous, bloody and violent conflicts threaten to redraw the post-colonial borders of a region that is crucial to a continued flow of oil and through which at least 60percentt of Chinese exports pass.

The development process was long and tortuous; it was extremely difficult to secure financial backing; casting proved problematic; injuries, personnel changes and inclement weather disrupted the production schedule more than once; budget shortages constantly plagued the director and his production supervisor, forcing them to take extraordinary measures to keep going.

Private institutions have taken up some of the slack, but a corrupt and tortuous bureaucracy makes obtaining permits difficult.

However, it is difficult to select the proper velocity encoding gradient [ 6], and tortuous venous anatomy and low flow limit the use of phase contrast MRI in potential kidney donors [ 56].

Vasari, Do You Hear Me? "Shapiro has accomplished a very difficult task: he has created a clear, pellucid language in English for Ransom's stories, which are dark and tortuous.

The creation of art is notoriously difficult to depict on stage (as in film), so leeway must be allowed those who would evoke this slow and tortuous process in a brief, digestible narrative.