Sentence examples for tortuous but from inspiring English sources

The RRA was significantly more tortuous, but deformed less than the other vessels during respiration.

THE negotiations have been exceptionally long and tortuous, but China could still accede to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this year.

"It was kind of tortuous but kind of good not to have an identity in a town that exists purely on identity," she said.

The tortuous but real path toward a more perfect union can be gleaned from the president's response to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.

Packer warned that any negotiations with Iran would be "tortuous" but offered the "most likely way for there to be a true political solution".

"The leadership contest has been tortuous, but has exposed the fact that we have failed to do sufficient political and intellectual mobilisation in this regard", they write.

Tortuous perhaps, but a lot of Scotland's moral victories have been claimed by tortuous means.

P8 Jane Martinson on the BBC white paper: Tortuous negotiations, but 'reasonable' result.

"It has been a long, hard and tortuous road, but it was well worth the effort".

Similarly, casing wear is often associated with hard-rock drilling or tortuous wellbores but, if not properly mitigated, can adversely impact casing exposed to even moderate drill through.

The results show that both pressure-ascending work pattern and pressure-descending work pattern have some impacts on the discharge rates of tortuous emitters, but the impact level is not significant.