Finally, by piecing together the scanty biographical details and combining them with long months of telephone calls, emails, painstaking library searches and frustrating dead ends they found her.
In addition to its evisceration of Trump – who is repeatedly likened to a mafia boss and labelled "unethical, and untethered to the truth and institutional values" – A Higher Loyalty offers a painstaking recounting of the Clinton emails saga, which Comey calls "this awful case".
Founded by an engineering and MIT heavy team, Baydin tries to turn the painstaking and tortuous task of answering email into a game, with timing capabilities, Google Calendar integration and rewards.
I've had to go through the Crash Override guide to getting my address off of a huge list of personal information brokers, a painstaking and thankless process of sending email after email in some cases having to send paper mail or faxes to businesses that seem to exist for the sole purpose of enabling doxers, stalkers and spammers.
That led to the "painstaking undertaking" of piecing together millions of email fragments like a jigsaw puzzle, Mr. Comey said, and ultimately proved that she had not turned over all of her work-related email to the State Department as she and her aides have claimed.
Piecing all of that back together – to gain as full an understanding as possible of the ways in which personal email was used for government work – has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of hours of effort.
Painstaking inquiries were conducted on a mass of data from pre-paid credit cards, email addresses, flight records and mobile phones to prove Osolase was involved in smuggling the girls to Britain.
"For Olivier (as she was generally known) her finest achievement was the painstaking editing of the five volumes of Virginia Woolf's diaries," her daughter said by email.
"The scale of the material that needed to be searched included millions of emails, tens of thousands of documents, complex communications data and trails of financial transactions that required painstaking analysis as evidence gradually emerged," it said.
"Diplomacy is painstaking work.
