Any wholesale replacement of them will be a tortuous process on these grounds alone.

To follow the tortuous process, it helps to understand how the budget writers talk.

If ever an audience was subjected to a tortuous process with no payoff, this is it.

It's a rather tortuous process, and one that hardly makes for the most free-flowing of interviews.

Then comes election day for the 14.2 million eligible voters that emerge from this tortuous process.

This nitpicking came at the end of a tortuous 18-month process that the District suffers to get its budget.

Here is a guide to the tortuous process by which Congress and the Administration are supposed to reach it.

But getting information from Iraq remains a tortuous process.

Even to get to this point - the last step before entering the forbidden vault - has been a tortuous process.

The development of an idea is a tortuous process involving many outside influences.