Sentence examples for had been painstaking from inspiring English sources
The planning for their assaults had been painstaking.
Treasury insiders acknowledged that the negotiations with the Swiss system had been "painstaking" and, at times, "delicate".
Gathering the measurements had been painstaking, requiring a person to sit perfectly still in front of a giant camera, but they could be quickly and easily made with Rogers's epidermal system, he told me.
"And we thought Ecce Homo was bad!" However, Carlos Quevedo, the architect who oversaw the restoration of the castle, which has been declared a heritage site of cultural interest, pointed out that the project had been painstaking, professional, and legal.
The preparations had been painstaking: more than three years earlier, Henry Kissinger, the national-security adviser, began hinting to Beijing that Nixon might be the President to reopen relations.
The site is extremely challenging and the efforts of colleagues from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and investigators have been painstaking".
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said: "The Met investigation has been painstaking and thorough and has for the first time brought together in one place what was disparate information across the world.
The restoration process has been painstaking, and although Pavesi, fortunately, has not encountered any sadistic pedophile fascists thus far, she has had to deal with plenty of complicated government bureaucracy.
But the shrinking of Guantánamo has been painstaking, even though President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates have said they would like to close the camp, which has drawn increasing criticism around the world.
While some Saudi charities have come under scrutiny as part of international efforts to stem terrorist financing, the authorities' attempts to distinguish between legitimate aid and terrorist funds have been painstaking and inexact.
