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• s  highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
  tortuous legal procedures
  tortuous negotiations lasting for months
• s  marked by repeated turns and bends
  a tortuous road up the mountain
• s  not straightforward
  his tortuous reasoning

• After Cambodia appealed for international assistance in setting up a genocide tribunal in 1997, it took another nine years of governmental foot-dragging and tortuous negotiations .
• Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous.
• A whole lot can go wrong during that long and tortuous journey from the womb to the world.

• Byzantine
• convoluted
• involved
• knotty
• tangled
• twisting
• twisty
• winding
• voluminous

News & Articles

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• Coyotes decision expected within two weeks
  The long, tortuous ownership saga of the Phoenix Coyotes is entering its final phase.
  June 13, 2013 - ESPN
• Big issues decided by small groups of legislators as the NH lawmaking session winds up
  CONCORD – Several grand bargains between House Democratic and Senate Republican leaders are needed before this 2013 session can come to a close. We’re used to the tortuous process that is legislating in New Hampshire, where every lawmaker without pedigree gets a clean shot at passing, killing or changing at bill to beyond recognition. Now we are heading into that uncomfortable period when it’s ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph
• Big issues decided by small groups of legislators as the NH lawmaking session winds up
  CONCORD – Several grand bargains between House Democratic and Senate Republican leaders are needed before this 2013 session can come to a close. We’re used to the tortuous process that is legislating in New Hampshire, where every lawmaker without pedigree gets a clean shot at passing, killing or changing at bill to beyond recognition. Now we are heading into that uncomfortable period when it’s ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph

Quotes

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• Rahim Jaffer in CBC.ca
  I do not wish to extend this process, which has been tortuous for me and my family, any longer than necessary,he wrote.
• Ray Takeyh in Washington Post
  I expect the tortuous negotiations will continue and not result in any meaningful compromise anytime soon,said Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think tank. "There is a fundamental disagreement about...
• Wen Jiabao in Gaea Times (blog)
  Speaking at a business forum, Wen said the economy is "better than expected" but warned that global economic recovery will be a "long and tortuous process."