Sentence examples for tortuous years from inspiring English sources

After 10 tortuous years of procrastination and experimentation, the worsening tilt has finally been arrested, making it safe for tourists to climb.

In dramatic scenes at Church House in Westminster, a long-awaited measure that was the result of 12 tortuous years of debate and more than three decades of campaigning was defeated by lay members, prompting one bishop to warn that the established church risked becoming "a national embarrassment".

During those tortuous years, I got to know many young men who died alone, with nobody holding their hand or even being present in the room.

They included the businessman's four Vietnam draft deferments, mocking Sen. John McCain's tortuous years as an American P.O.W., smearing a Gold Star family, likening his prep school experience to actually serving in the military, and talking about how he always wanted a Purple Heart. .

It was only when Ohio (which John Kerry did not win), as well as traditionally Republican Iowa and Indiana, came aboard on Election night -- and when Michigan and Pennsylvania stayed Democratic -- that we knew that middle class Americans had finally, after eight tortuous years, found their champion-to-be in the White House.

It was backstage there in1958 that I met Billie Holiday and she gave me a copy of her autobiography, Lady Sings The Blues, suggesting that I film it someday, and it was 13 long tortuous years later that I was finally able to do so with Diana Ross as Billie, Billy Dee Williams ("the black Clark Gable") as her husband, and Richard Pryor in his first film role as Piano Man.

Supermarkets, which have in general had a tortuous year, moved higher on hopes of a bumper Christmas.

For it has serious implications also for the unfinished agenda of creating a single European capital market.The directive has, after all, been a tortuous ten years in the making.

"Oh that".It has been a tortuous three years in the making but Zimbabwe's new constitution, which was put to a referendum on Saturday March 16th, has elicited a jaw-breaking yawn from the country's citizens.

Through the tortuous five-year course through the courts, he said, "the interests of public health have held.

The effort to build a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack has been a tortuous eight-year-long process, and critics have portrayed the final round of negotiations as Albany at its worst, with no formal process and scant disclosure.