Sentence examples for tortuous struggle from inspiring English sources

Even with his limitless funds, Mr Brügger endures a tortuous struggle to get his hands on diplomatic credentials.

It was a tortuous struggle, with many a twist and turn, which led to the 1867 Reform Act.

Generally speaking, privileged access has often gone hand in hand with glacial procrastination: Frank Bidart's extended immersion in the life and work of Robert Lowell, Edmund Morris's tortuous struggle with the mind of Ronald Reagan.

In early 1944, John Huston made a film about an infantry unit's tortuous struggle to clear the Germans out of San Pietro, a small town northwest of Naples, and the surrounding countryside.

Freeman's examinations of sexism and racism within the film industry are riveting; in particular, her essay on Eddie Murphy's tortuous struggle to avoid being just "the black guy", even when he was the biggest box-office draw in the world.

The task of proving that the Arab world without its dictators is a better place may yet be a tortuous struggle.See next article.

Lin had been the high priest of the Mao cult, and millions had gone through tortuous struggles to elevate this chosen successor to power and throw out his "revisionist" challengers.

By the early 1920s, he could already sense that "the whole golden boom was in the air – its splendid generosities, its outrageous corruptions and the tortuous death struggle of the old America in prohibition".

Mr. Peltz's decision, relayed in a notice to the town last week, ended what Joel H. Sachs, Bedford's lawyer, called a five-year, "long and tortuous legal struggle" that will help ensure the tranquillity of a woodsy rural town that has attacted hordes of celebrities and financial moguls in recent years.

Kureishi's path to a mature coherence was tortuous, a bigger struggle than he wants to let on.

Alliance forces, spread across northern Afghanistan in isolated pockets and narrow slivers of territory, have long struggled with tortuous supply routes.