Sentence examples for tortuous winter from inspiring English sources

A safe haven after a tortuous winter journey was in sight.

As the year comes to a close, it is possible that Honduras could finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of a tortuous 2009.

Stars danced to carols in festive jumpers and the judging panel tied themselves up in knots with increasingly tortuous Christmas metaphors.

We'll have to wait for a more definitive version of those tortuous negotiations last spring and summer.

Yet Greece has won an unlikely ally in the form of the International Monetary Fund, which has refused to sign up to the country's third bailout – agreed after months of tortuous negotiations 18 months ago – until the debt question is resolved.

It is the goal of the Oxford historian Ruth Harris to extricate the story from the myths it has generated, on both the left and the right, and to trace its tortuous evolution from 1894 to 1906 in all of its human complexity.

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.

The synthesis of Darwinism and Mendelism, which marked the birth of modern population genetics, was achieved by a long and tortuous route (Provine 1971).

Leo's running life began with 30 tortuous minutes on Jan . 6

Angiogenesis driven tumor growth is typically associated with increased vessel density and caliber and a disordered and tortuous vasculature structure [24] [26].

We were unable to measure bundle lengths directly, but we were able to quantify bundle tortuosity (defined as contour length of a bundle segment divided by the end to end length)[20] in relaxed cells as a function of maximum strain reached, and found that bundles became significantly more tortuous (regression p value<0.001) after the cells were stretched to greater strains (Fig. 5j).