Meanings of tortuous negotiations in English

The accord followed years of tortuous negotiations which deterred foreign investment in the oil industry.

Much of the leg work on financial regulation is nearing completion after years of tortuous negotiations.

More likely there will be cabinet wrangles, tortuous negotiations with the EU, and an unsatisfactory conclusion.

The matter was discussed at yesterday's FA board meeting but the tortuous negotiations will drag on.

It would lead to years, possibly decades, of more tortuous negotiations with the EU on our future relationship.

That cast into doubt the fate of nearly two years of tortuous negotiations with his Lord's Resistance Army.

But after months of tortuous negotiations and repeated setbacks, senior bankers and officials remained cautious ahead of the deadline.

Getting any sort of improved results from what will be tortuous negotiations will expend huge amounts of political capital.

In 1981, after tortuous negotiations, it finally "returned" to post-Franco Spain, home where it had never been.

Both May and the EU have already ruled out any other changes to the deal, struck after two-and-a-half years of tortuous negotiations.

The patience Ahern has shown over the past eight years, as one set of tortuous negotiations succeeded another, has been truly astounding.

May last month pulled a parliamentary vote on her deal, struck after two years of tortuous negotiations, after admitting it would be defeated.

Colleagues at the state-controlled broadcaster were outraged at his defection, particularly as it came during tortuous negotiations with the government over its licence fee.

Aidy Boothroyd put an uncharacteristically frazzled display that night down to the unsettling nature of the tortuous negotiations over his transfer to Manchester United.

EU negotiators object that the Cox proposal would unpick the Withdrawal Agreement reached by the EU and UK last year after months of tortuous negotiations.

The resulting Mexican stand-off has been, and will continue to be, at the core of these tortuous negotiations in the run-up to Durban and beyond.