Sentence examples for tortuous debate from inspiring English sources

After a long, tortuous debate over several months, we finally decided our set five days before the festival.

The legislation which passed through the Dáil after 24 hours of tortuous debate will not stop the annual abortion trail from Ireland to Britain.

The proposals are the latest chapter in a long and tortuous debate about the plant and whether the park is the best place to build it.

He also displayed considerable skill as a party manager in holding Labour together during the tortuous debate on the Maastricht Treaty.

Look at the issues that have dominated the past week: the Supreme Court's decision to take up an abortion case, George Bush's threat to veto a bill on stem cells, even the tortuous debate about filibusters.

In spite of four days of tortuous debate, the synod agreed that its bishops could instead tinker with legislation that would allow the ordination of women as bishops, before returning it to the synod for final approval in July.

All the same, the bill faces eight tortuous debates in the Colombian Congress.

I am saying that for all the tortuous debates around the legal complexities of rape and consent, the principles at stake are really bloody simple.

During the long and tortuous debates leading up to that moment, there were arguments about many, many things that the new law contained.

The third excommunication came this year, when after a tortuous internal debate, the community appealed to law enforcement.

He wrote seven books and more than 100 articles covering such topics as impeachment, executive privilege, judicial review and the death penalty, thrusting himself to the center of the incessant and tortuous national debate on constitutional interpretations.