The final was duly lost and it proved tortuous for Karanka.
Finding, unearthing and storing the bodies has proved a tortuous process that exemplifies the problems that have slowed peace efforts in Bosnia -- corrupt local officials, a limited international commitment and internecine political battles.
Getting out of existing contracts would likely prove to be a tortuous process, creating its own costs and leaving questions as to what would be put in their place.
Negotiations over the legal structures of a banking union have proved difficult and tortuous.
Instead critics fear the TIU has gone after low-hanging fruit rather than embarking on the painstaking, difficult-to-prove and tortuous detective work required to prove the less obviously open and shut cases.
Moreover, a long overdue overhaul of tortuous U.S. tax laws might prove more productive than attacks on a foreign bank; many of the 52,000 U.S. customers of UBS whose names your editorial asks for might then be happy to head home.
The tortuous negotiation over the budget may well prove to be an example of the Union at its worst, and is it likely to put on display a full range of dysfunction that has grown both more important and acute as the group fumbles for ways to address the euro crisis.
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Five years later, and with no end in sight, Google's own antitrust showdown in Brussels has proved to be as tortuous as the company must have initially feared.
But most Republicans feel that a president's prominence ought to subject him to a higher standard.The White House attack on the obstruction-of-justice charge may prove successful; but its defence against perjury seems shakier, based on the same tortuous thinking as Mr Clinton's definitions of "sexual relations".
