Sentence examples for has been painstaking from inspiring English sources

But it's early days, and the journey to this point has 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.

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.

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.

There has been painstaking research by the ship's executive chef to try to ensure the authenticity of the recipes, although she admits that she has made some of the food "a little more fancy".

"This has been painstaking work with the aim of maximising the chances of dealing a big blow to serious criminality and a big blow to environmental vandalism," he said.

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".

The site is extremely challenging and the efforts of colleagues from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and investigators have been painstaking".

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.

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.