Sentence examples for painstaking operation from inspiring English sources

Now returning for a second series, the drama concerns a meticulous psychopath (Paul Spector, played by Jamie Dornan) and the painstaking operation led by DI Stella Gibson Gillian Andersonn) that aims to catch him.

Police, fearing several attackers, searched the city, and a painstaking operation was launched to secure the shopping mall where dozens of shoppers and workers were still thought to be hiding.

Removal of their remains from the A27 was completed just over a week ago after a painstaking operation, hampered by heavy rain and strong winds, involving workers from more than 20 agencies and a CT scanner.

The call last month began a painstaking operation to extricate three "absolutely terrified" women from a house in the heart of London where they were allegedly held for at least 30 years, in what police said could be Britain's most enduring case of domestic slavery.

But with scenery, lighting, costumes, physio equipment, make-up and shoes all having to make the journey down to the capital, it is a painstaking operation.

The computerized machines have obviated the painstaking operations that eat up so much time on conventional machines.

But this is going to be a painstaking hand operation as we try to remove the rubble and make sure that we don't cause further collapse or injure anyone who may still be in that building".

Some relatives of the missing were allowed to visit the bridge site during the weekend, watching the painstaking recovery operation as divers confronted whipsaw currents, submerged debris and water so black that visibility was limited to six inches.

Adapted from journalist Robin Moore's book, it tells a lightly fictionalized version of the painstaking surveillance operation carried out by two New York police officers in the lead up to the arrest of French television personality Jacques Angelvin, who had arrived in America with a 1960 Buick Invicta that had 112 pounds of heroin secreted inside it.

Adapted from journalist Robin Moore's book, it tells a lightly fictionalised version of the painstaking surveillance operation carried out by two New York police officers in the lead up to the arrest of French television personality Jacques Angelvin, who had arrived in America with a 1960 Buick Invicta that had 112 pounds of heroin secreted inside it.

Deputy Chief Constable Fitzpatrick said the operation continued to be "difficult and complex" and a "painstaking process" was "underway to search and also preserve the scene".