Sentence examples for somewhat tortuous from inspiring English sources

In eutherian mammals (i.e., all mammals except monotremes and marsupials), with exceptions noted below, female reproductive tracts beyond the ostia (oviduct funnels) consist of two narrow and somewhat tortuous Fallopian tubes, two large uterine horns (each of which receives a Fallopian tube), a uterine body, and one vagina.

Mr Sistani accepted in the end that the elections should be held after a reasonable period of preparation, but insisted that the unelected government which preceded it should not have sovereign freedom to affect the future of the Iraqi state.This somewhat tortuous procedure had various effects.

Krishnamoorthi adds his (admittedly somewhat tortuous) name to the list of Democrats chomping at the bit to run for Congress under the new map, which creates two essentially open seats and puts nearly all the freshman Republicans in the state's Congressional delegation in precarious positions.

It sounds like a pretty tortuous transaction.

The revised version -- which has had a somewhat slow and tortuous journey to the Taper stage -- is directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom, who made his Broadway debut in 1997 with "Side Show".

The process of choosing the next supreme spiritual leader is a tortuous and somewhat spontaneous one that relies on the will of the people, expressed in whom they choose to pay their religious taxes to — devout Shiites are expected to pay one-fifth of their discretionary income to their ayatollah, or marja — and the validation of a spiritual leader's religious scholarship by his clerical peers.

Accommodation can still be had at visitsochi.su and the previously tortuous visa process has been somewhat simplified at ru.vfsglobal.co.uk.

A deeper problem, though, is the feeling that this show is quite simply done, and its tortuous zombie life is robbing the fun from it, a feeling that somewhat tainted the return of Arrested Development.

Somewhat paradoxically, Prokhorov's mission to make an honest team of the Nets had devolved into a tortuous pursuit of Anthony, a flirtatious scoring forward, but one who never publicly declared any romantic interest in the downtrodden Nets.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.