But in this varied, painstaking, admirable collection there is no sign of a power cut anywhere.
As to data on coca production, the source of this variable is UNODC, a United Nations department whose sole purpose is to fight against illicit drugs and international crime through painstaking analysis and collection of data utilizing both physical verification and satellite imagery like the one utilized in this work.
Aside from the painstaking service, the lovingly assembled collection of antique upholstered chairs, couches and tables, the period French and English china, and the Persian and Russian rugs, the five-course tea is deliciously enticing.
In the 1980's, an appointed committee decided that a detailed exercise in data collection was too "painstaking," and opted instead to do an aerial survey.
A pair of male models, in dressing gowns and with alligator clips flattening their hair ready for the artless dirty-hair-don't-care look they will sport at the collection presentation later, spend 10 painstaking minutes trying to figure out the espresso machine; eventually, generous in triumph, they pass tiny paper cups of coffee around the room.
The standard historical approach of comparing style and iconography, even when coupled with painstaking detective work in archives and distant collections, has often proved inconclusive or at times even deceptive.
Preparing the vast collection for the public was a painstaking task.
But such robust vitality is unfortunately not accompanied, in all cases, by a maximum of vigilance if one includes in that term the painstaking, pertinacious scrutiny of every single fact, every collection of relevant data, that might bear upon his efforts.
The field work and data collection that go into making these discoveries are painstaking in the extreme.
