"There are four lanes, each with a different clock, " commented another long-time observer of these tortuous talks.
Rather than hammering out tortuous compromises, there were set-piece battles in which the liberals broadly prevailed.
That includes a tortuous calculation of a 2% excise tax on net investment income.
She was decommissioned in 1997, and the search for a final resting place has been tortuous.
Mr Maliki eventually formed a government of national unity after nine months of tortuous negotiations.
It involves a tortuous set of contractual relationships between as many as 150 companies.
The whole tortuous tale shows that it is not true that the commission is indifferent to fraud.
" Then she thinks back to those tortuous first days: "It's like giving birth to a child.
For Italians, used to endless political squabbling, tortuous negotiations and fragile compromises, this businesslike approach is a revelation.
In decades of tortuous efforts to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians, ideas and phrases come and go.
But after seven years of tortuous negotiations, say the Palestinians, so limited an accord is simply not on.
BNP's tortuous capture of Fortis gives it the euro area's biggest deposit-taking franchise.
As tortuous as this recovery has been, however, Fisher sees some bright spots.
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Other smallish government-run export zones followed in the 1980s, but they were dogged by poor infrastructure and tortuous bureaucratic regulations.
What if the additional time employees spend with their managers is tortuous and mundane rather than constructive, collaborative and inspirational?
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Since the last APEC summit, China has formally joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the culmination of years of tortuous negotiations.
The prospect, therefore, after some tortuous post-election horse-trading, is for a fragile coalition, with its many components pulling in different directions.
But after long and tortuous negotiations, it refused to strike deals to sell two others, Bangkok Metropolitan Bank and Siam City Bank.
This is partly because tuition fees tend to be low and partly because gaining state approval for degree programmes can be tortuous.
Tortuous negotiations had taken place over the exact wording of the clause.
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Second, we provide a lot of tortuous medical treatments before people die.
But for those who must navigate not the seas or the stars, but our tortuous civil justice system, the term conjures epic nightmares.
Every person in the room can relate, because each one of us has had a tortuous experience with doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies.
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The idea is that these platforms should help drug searchers to travel rapidly on their long and tortuous journey from gene to treatment.
"The trip has been a bit tortuous but the important thing is that we are here and we're in a good mood, " said Benitez.
So far, however, the main result is to make the run-up to Russia's general election, due on December 19th, even more tortuous and mucky.
The new code's tortuous evolution means it is poorly drafted and in places ambiguous, says Roberto Smeraldi of Amigos da Terra, a Brazilian NGO.
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Our correspondent says the election had been a tortuous process, and that Mr Pena Nieto is unlikely to see a quiet acceptance of the result.
PRI's first national primary election, in which 8m Mexicans voted last Sunday, marks an innovation, and another welcome step in Mexico's tortuous evolution to democracy.
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