Sentence examples for tortuous attempts from inspiring English sources

"There have been some tortuous attempts to explain how all these policies fit together, but the end result is a bit of a mess," he said.

Goodman revealed the tortuous attempts by the BBC's producers – and presenter Zoe Ball – to apologise to viewers, just in case they may have been offended by what they thought they heard.

Witness the tortuous attempts by Ed Miliband to sound tough on immigration without sounding too tough.

The former White House official contrasted the tortuous attempt to empty Guantánamo with the relatively swift process in military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have held thousands of detainees.

The tortuous process of attempting to get the song precisely right meant it almost never happened.

The killing of Consuelo Araujo, Colombia's former culture minister and a friend of President Andrés Pastrana, at the hands of guerrillas is proving the most serious obstacle yet in the tortuous, three-year attempt to create peace.

This then leads us down the tortuous path of attempting to define what is "good" Islam versus "bad" Islam -- creating a kind of "state sanctioned" interpretation of a faith -- something we understood not to do when it involved Christianity.

But because the law is tortuous in the way it attempts to do that.

Victims' groups began a long battle for justice almost 25 years ago, a tortuous journey that included several failed attempts to prosecute Habré in Belgium and Senegal, where he fled after being toppled in a coup led by Idriss Déby Itno – Chad's current president – in 1990.

On the other hand, ants captured on the trail exhibited tortuous non-directed motion, presumably in an attempt to pick up pheromone cues and locate the trail again.

Then, with the aid of a Dictaphone and his friend's meticulous notebooks, he attempts to transcribe Zafar's tragic, tortuous tale.