Sentence examples for tortuous efforts from inspiring English sources

It's just not "what you see," except through tortuous efforts of association.

It details Kaufman's tortuous efforts to adapt Susan Orlean's nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief" for the screen.

A recent report from Universities UK, a body representing university vice-chancellors, describes the tortuous efforts of more than 30 institutions to "widen participation".

The decree was the latest stage in the government's tortuous efforts to fulfil an election pledge by Silvio Berlusconi to scrap an unpopular tax on first homes – and to do so without increasing Italy's already vast, €2tn public debt.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page floated conspiracy theories in line with its tortuous efforts to link Mr. Clinton to drug-running at an obscure Arkansas airport; this time it speculated that the president might have been blackmailed by Fidel Castro and that Elian might have been drugged "while in U.S. government custody".

For President Obama, who had publicly called on Israel to extend the freeze, the Israeli decision was another setback in what has been a tortuous effort to help resolve one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

This is the latest chapter in America's tortuous effort to repair the damage done over the last nine years by a troubled, overcrowded detention system that often produced more insurgents rather than reforming them.

By calling in sick on the first day of his corruption trial, Indonesia's former leader, Suharto, has put up another hurdle to this country's tortuous effort to come to terms with its past.

Indeed, were she a more cynical sort of politician, prepared to offer sops to special interests and lobbies, she might now be forming a centre-right government on her own, instead of presiding over a tortuous effort to construct a left-right coalition.Ms Merkel's personal qualities, and her steady principles, are all welcome as far as they go.

Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, has called the pledge a "big step" in the long and tortuous history of global efforts on climate protection.

Colombian Air Force planes bombed rebel camps and clandestine airstrips today as thousands of troops prepared to retake a huge rebel-held zone in an offensive that may well mark the end of a tortuous three-year peace effort.