Sentence examples for tortuous relations from inspiring English sources

From Shah Shuja's own memoir, unused by any English-language account, he draws a picture of Afghanistan's tribal and personal rivalries, and of Shah Shuja's own tortuous relations with the Sikhs and the British, at once more vivid and persuasive than any previous account.

Catholic leaders and some former Episcopalians are celebrating the announcement as a small but notable event in an often tortuous history of relations between the Vatican and the Anglican Church, which includes the Episcopalians, after their break in the 16th century.

One of the enduring quotations in the tortuous history of relations between France and Britain is the remark attributed to Churchill during the second world war – that the cross he had to bear was the Cross of Lorraine, the symbol of Charles de Gaulle and the Free French based in London.

As a result, Couloute says he is suing his former fling, Amanda Ryncarz, for "tortuous interference with prospective business relations," according to the network.

Mr. Kohler was chosen for the top job at the I.M.F. after tortuous trans-Atlantic wrangling that soured relations between the Clinton administration and Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schroder.

But most Republicans feel that a president's prominence ought to subject him to a higher standard.The White House attack on the obstruction-of-justice charge may prove successful; but its defence against perjury seems shakier, based on the same tortuous thinking as Mr Clinton's definitions of "sexual relations".

Germany's postwar consensus culture, which pervades labor relations and corporate decision-making, has made change tortuous.

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.

But there was no apparent relation between the scores and the moving distance because the Turtlebot might move along a tortuous path.

In this regard, the study shows that 2.7 million children and adolescents enrolled in primary or secondary school with two or more years behind in relation to the degree that they would be entitled if they had a school less tortuous route.

The funding package is tortuous.