Sentence examples for tortuous procedure from inspiring English sources
The phrase "tortuous procedure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process that is complicated, lengthy, or convoluted, often causing frustration or confusion. Example: "The application process for the grant was a tortuous procedure that took months to complete."
Mr Sistani accepted in the end that the elections should be held after a reasonable period of preparation, but insisted that the unelected government which preceded it should not have sovereign freedom to affect the future of the Iraqi state.This somewhat tortuous procedure had various effects.
At issue in the case of Vergara vs. California were laws that lay out a long and tortuous procedure for teachers to appeal a firing, require that less experienced teachers almost always be let go first when districts carry out layoffs and give principals only 18 months to decide whether a new teacher deserves tenure.
The tortuous procedures for an international tribunal to investigate the Khmers Rouges' crimes are being set in motion.
In interviews, some undergraduates said the administration had become bogged down in confidentiality rules and its own tortuous procedures, missing a bigger truth about the treatment of women, who make up slightly more than half of the student body.
Under the euro zone's tortuous procedures, however, all 17 European Union countries that use the euro must approve the agreement, a process that has revealed ever more fissures, layers of decision-making and political complexity that add up to a worrisome inability to react quickly and decisively to upheaval in fast-moving financial markets.
With campus curfews, no student union, a tortuous application procedure even to book a room (Anwar's UM talk was held in darkness, after authorities cut off the electricity), even having to wear ties to lectures – it's hardly an atmosphere in which an enquiring, free-thinking mindset can flourish.
Driving during the rainy season can be a tortuous process.
"Traveling today can certainly be a tortuous process," he said.
"It has been such a tortuous process.
Moreover, practicalities to cast a ballot (postal/electronic voting, voting in person abroad) may deter electoral participation if associated with very high "costs" (e.g.: long journey to the nearest polling station, tortuous administrative procedures).
That was shown by the tortuous writing process.
