Sentence examples for tortuous ruling from inspiring English sources
The ECHR finally delivered a tortuous ruling in 2011, to the effect that the cross was certainly a religious symbol but it was an "essentially passive" one whose presence could not be considered a form of indoctrination.The American saga concerned a white cross (pictured) which was erected on a stretch of the Mojave desert in California to honour the dead of the first world war.
At any rate, in both instances, after tortuous negotiations, court rulings, architectural revisions, and bruising press coverage, Boston Properties wound up walking away.
The tortuous zigzag of contradictory rulings that followed Kercher's stabbing in the town of Perugia has underlined the slowness and unpredictability of Italian law, which numerous governments have failed to fix.
That would be a sad commentary on the ruling military council's management of a tortuous and messy post-revolutionary transition.
The ruling was the latest chapter in what has become a tortuous and embarrassing case for the park agency, which is facing growing scrutiny and anger upstate.
Mississippi's decision on Friday, after just three same-sex weddings, underscores the tortuous road to gay marriage in America, and shows that even a ruling by the nation's highest court cannot force immediate change where opposition is so deeply entrenched.
The ruling represents a long-awaited victory for the LGBTQ community, which has waged a tortuous battle to legalize homosexuality in recent decades.
Other members of Mr Netanyahu's ruling coalition welcomed the concession, but argued for bigger land swaps.Liberal Israelis condemned Mr Netanyahu for sounding as rejectionist as the Arabs had been before the tortuous peace process began.
Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.
A long and tortuous downfall.
