Sentence examples for tortuous talks from inspiring English sources

Most Greeks still regard the tortuous talks as a robust defence of their rights.

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, now the lead Iranian negotiator, described the often tortuous talks as an "unholy exercise".

The south Sudanese government in Juba, which had mediated tortuous talks between Uganda and the LRA for two years, had recently been angered by LRA attacks inside its own semi-autonomous region.

Next week, governments will convene in Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of more than 20 years of tortuous talks, aimed at forging a binding international agreement on climate change which so far has eluded them.

It is love story, epic and comedy, swerving back and forth between long, tortuous talk and sudden violence.

Banks helped push the market higher on hopes that a Spanish bailout could finally be implemented, reducing the cost of the country's borrowings, as well as optimism over Greece's tortuous budget talks with its international creditors.

2002 February - Pastrana breaks off three years of tortuous peace talks with Farc rebels, says hijacking of aircraft hours earlier is final straw.

Overall investors remained cautious amid the continuing eurozone crisis, awaiting news of any Spanish bailout and the outcome of the tortuous Greek budget talks with its international creditors.

When 150 heads of state pledged two weeks ago in Paris to forge a new climate deal, it seemed certain they would make history where decades of tortuous UN climate talks had failed.

Fourteen years of tortuous global trade talks will end in failure this week unless there is a sudden and unexpected end to the impasse between developed and developing countries that has bedevilled negotiations.

Earlier this year Endemol secured a deal with Richard Desmond's Channel 5, after tortuous and protracted talks, to relaunch Big Brother in the UK, nearly a year after the format was dumped by Channel 4. "This would be an initiative of Cyrte, who know Ronald Goes [Dutch head of Warner Bros international TV production] well," said one City source with knowledge of the situation.