"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 framed a tortuous, 75-word question which avoided all mention of the issue of indefinite re-election.
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.
The campaign for the hearts and minds of Iraqis is more tortuous even than the war itself.
" 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.
The travel industry blames a tortuous visa process and a perception of poor treatment on entering the country.
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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.
Progress, however, will be tortuous, notwithstanding the battering the left has suffered as a result of Mr Bo's fall.
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.
Even upbeat analysts and there are not many of them predict a tortuous path to any settlement, with much stalling on the way.
In the end, it is all about national pride and high-stake risks, tortuous and deliberately time-consuming negotiation, fine calculations, deception and bluff.
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.
The tortuous, 75-word question (which does not mention the abolition of presidential term limits) will probably make little difference to the outcome.
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.
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