Sentence examples for tortuous in from inspiring English sources

The energy firms, in turn, complain that the government is taxing them too heavily, and that it is expecting them to pay too much in new asset sales.The controversy surrounding Gazprom is politically tortuous in its own right.

No less tortuous, in this season for corporate hospitality, is the line between legitimate and illegitimate entertaining.The image of champagne-guzzling freeloaders hogging the best seats at Wimbledon, Ascot, Silverstone, Lord's and Henley not surprisingly infuriates those who have to pay their own way.

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

In our case, the vascular loops in some areas became more dilated and tortuous in 16 years.

This is a key limitation for microcirculation imaging as blood vessels within the tissue are orientated at varying angles and can be tortuous in shape.

In contrast, the zebrafish injected with CPP ecp appeared to be tortuous, in which SIV pattern shrank significantly as compared with that of PBS control).

He almost lost me in a tortuous section in which he assigns weighted values to clues in the Borden case.

As water flows through tortuous paths in reservoirs in presence of oil, O/W emulsions are often formed.

On these important terms in Dignāga, their relatively insignificant place in Dharmakīrti, and their tortuous revival in Tibetan epistemological (tshad ma) literature from the 12th century on, see Tillemans (1999, p. 234, n. 15).

It was also discovered that δ was similar in length for different tortuous paths in a complex microchannel network after plasma treatment through a single inlet port.

In our algorithm, the GE protocol detected tortuous loops in 56.5% more easily than unprocessed images, CNP regions in 21.7%, and neovascularization and hemorrhages in 13% each.