Time and time again in recent months, Iraqi leaders have painstakingly worked through thorny issues — including disputes over who is eligible to run for office or serve in government, challenges to the election results and power-sharing arrangements — without resorting to violence.
In 1913, The New York Times published the first quarterly issue of The Times Index, a painstakingly assembled and cross-referenced guide to virtually every article, name and item that had appeared in the newspaper in the previous three months.
One set is to discuss Kashmir, but, in a painstakingly wrought diplomatic formula, the issue was accorded no "central" role.
To keep that from reoccurring in 2008, the bishops painstakingly reframed the brochure they issue every four years to guide Catholics in contemplating how to vote.
The newly defined relation for the deformation gradient has painstakingly investigated for the uniqueness, decomposition issues as well as objectivity and isotropy considerations.
He now issued to his inner circle folders of his poems, painstakingly clipped together.
"But when I tease him about it, he says, 'It's my job.' " The painstakingly deliberate pace illustrates just how thorny the issues must be.
At the same time, he has painstakingly built a political image that has economics — not social issues — as its center.
The young say, 'Father, you are not thinking about our future.'"Finding compromises on such fraught social issues is key to the rebuilding, which suggests that it will remain painstakingly slow.
That is why they have spun up minor issues to absurd heights, while ignoring the central accomplishments of this painstakingly-negotiated accord.
