Sentence examples for tortuous means from inspiring English sources

Tortuous means twisting and does not mean torturous.

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

Though the new law should lead to some reforestation, this is merely a one-off requirement for signing up to the Rural Environmental Register.The new code's tortuous evolution means it is poorly drafted and in places ambiguous, says Roberto Smeraldi of Amigos da Terra, a Brazilian NGO.

Discerning the degree of this effect, however, means tracing a tortuous path between global climate trends and intensely local demographics and epidemiology.

The through-and-through wire technique, which pulls both sides of an externalized guidewire with adequate tension and straightens the severely tortuous aorta, is a powerful means of delivering stent grafts [2].

We model the region as a bundle of tortuous cylindrical pores with a mean tortuosity τ.

It's a long and tortuous process and we're by no means there but there is no other option.

There seems now to be a reasonable chance that the centre-left will stay in office at least long enough to complete the stupendously tortuous process of approving an Italian budget which means until the end of the year.

Amid all the fuss and the madness he embarked upon a tortuous relationship with his co-star, Kristen Stewart, that meant the young couple were rarely out of the gossip pages.

This means the diffusion pathways in Ca-bentonite are less tortuous than those in Na-bentonite.

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