The White House is now pursuing a similarly painstaking multilateral strategy for resolving the international confrontation over Iran's nuclear activities.
None of this should have been news to anyone in authority, he said: the warnings have been out there, and patient, painstaking projects and strategies for trying to curb the influence of gangs have been in development on the ground for years.
Pop singing is a form of composing, and from a song like Vernon Duke's "Not a Care in the World" one inferred the painstaking forethought and strategies of a trained musician: how long the phrase length, where the breath comes, where to hold back or let go.
But Mr. Bush splashed skepticism on their demands last week by warning that he would not let modernization dollars flow until Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld finished a sweeping review of the Pentagon's cold war strategies, a painstaking process that could sharply revise accepted wisdom about the military's needs.
Celtic endured moments of hesitation early in the campaign as Deila adapted to his surroundings but also began the painstaking process of imposing his strategy on a group of players who were used to operating to different values.
Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's chief executive, has been conducting a painstaking review into the bank's strategy and organisation and is set to downsize it.Scale and heartyMr Pandit has affirmed his faith in the universal banking model, however, which looks stronger than ever.
That this case, now in its final stages, has not been dismissed like so many others is due in part to painstaking legal research and to cooperation over strategy by some of Japan's leading lawyers.
The purpose of the several-hour presentation by Hewlett-Packard's management team was to give wavering investors a detailed explanation of the strategy, the financial logic and the painstaking planning behind the Compaq merger.
This is painstaking, low-yield work, but the Obama campaign's strategy everywhere has been to try to expand the universe beyond traditional voters.
