Sentence examples for tortuous passage from inspiring English sources

The legislation had a tortuous passage through parliament, with staunch opposition from many Conservative backbenchers and religious groups.

The legislation had an agonisingly tortuous passage through a rancorous and partisan Congress, but eventually it made it onto the statute book.

Douglas Irwin, an economic historian at Dartmouth College, seems to have tracked down everything the act's proponents and opponents said or wrote during its long and tortuous passage through Congress for his new book.

After surviving a tortuous passage on Friday, the British number two now has the chance to push out of the world's top 50 the record winner of grand-slam titles.

But the bill's tortuous passage has largely had the opposite effect, and there is a risk that, made yet more complex by the new provisions for the Bank of Italy, it will not pass before the general election due next May.

In the absence of even the barest recognition of any of this beyond a tortuous passage that claims that all managers "merely manage their own position in relation to the artist", Autobiography presents the end of the Smiths as a mystery, sullied by some innuendous stuff about Marr supposedly growing envious of Morrissey's profile, which does not stand up to any serious scrutiny.

However, senior party figures said they will now be privately telling Clegg he has to show he is listening to his party and that further substantial changes should be sought, even though the bill has nearly completed its tortuous parliamentary passage.

One (patient 13) had a PCA thrombus subsequent to left vertebral artery dissection, the tortuous anatomy precluded passage of Solitaire FR device as well as proper deployment of stents across the dissection.

"The Campbell seems quite Alastair Campbelly-bad, in the slightly tortuous logical path the passage takes … and also, we wouldn't pass up the chance to put Alastair Campbell on a bad sex shortlist".

Similarly to reverence a problematic verse - I can imagine a much less tortuous and much closer-to-plain-sense reading of our notorious passage in Leviticus 18 22, the words traditionally understood as banning homosexuality, "Ve'et-zachar lo tishkav mishkevei ishah," as practically meaning "And one affined to the male shalt thou not forcibly cause to lie down with women".

The part of A Passage to India that most readers remember, of course, is the tortuous romantic drama of the Marabar caves.