Sentence examples for it tortuous to from inspiring English sources

The judicial system is equally dysfunctional, making it tortuous to win a libel case.

There is certainly plenty of alienating behavior, and it is tortuous to distract with whether it's a syndrome".

It's been "tortuous" to find the right words and movements, she says.

Denial is not an option.Despite being first out of the blocks, Xstrata and Rio Tinto show just how tortuous it is to raise equity when investors have been hammered and may face liquidity problems of their own.

"It's a tortuous road to begin".

Having moved to Scotland, it took years of tortuous consultations to get an equally unsatisfactory diagnosis for Annie: minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) occurring in pregnancy.

It details Kaufman's tortuous efforts to adapt Susan Orlean's nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief" for the screen.

But it took months of tortuous negotiations to secure a Security Council resolution because of Russian concerns about the violation of Syrian sovereignty.

This logic may strike the modern reader as rather tortuous, but it serves to illustrate a very important point: that any explanation for complex organs must account not only for their adaptive characteristics but also their imperfections.

Propagation becomes fractionated by the zig-zag like or tortuous pathways it has to follow.

It took five years of tortuous negotiations to translate those hopes into concrete action, in the form of the Kyoto protocol of 1997.