The purpose of this meeting was kidnapped through tortuous manipulations.

Since the early 1990s, our country has travelled a tortuous path.

Timing is another problem. Legislative processes are slow and often tortuous, while international diplomacy can change overnight, owing to shifting coalitions, unexpected opportunities, and well hidden traps.

3.4 The author finally claims a violation of article 7 of the Covenant in that it allows abortion which he defines as a cruel, tortuous and inhuman practice.

Both sides have known throughout the tortuous negotiations of recent months that failure to reach an agreement would benefit no one. Greece s economy would contract even further, and its creditors would have to accept even larger write offs.

But instead of bashing or seeking to undermine Al Jazeera, politicians should encourage this bastion of free expression, recognizing that Arabs will need to endure a messy process on the way to democracy. Along that tortuous route, the world's major powers are bound to be offended, probably quite regularly.

Sadat s spectacular leap into the future needed to be met by Israel s prime minister, Menachem Begin, at almost every juncture down a tortuous road to peace. Arguably, only a political hawk like Begin, a man with a keen sense of the dramatic and a political romantic with a beady eye to the judgment of history, could have responded in such a way to Sadat s initiative.

It could, in effect, pave the way for the new Obama administration to convene an international conference to implement the two state solution for Palestine, which should follow the ceasefire. Such initiatives should not become bogged down in tortuous negotiations, but should focus on implementing the basic principles for a two state solution, along the lines proposed by the Clinton administration before it left office eight years ago.

But no solution is possible until we abandon the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses and connect today s global financial imbalances with global production patterns and inadequate demand in developing countries. Tortuous claims that saving is merely the flip side of consumption and investment spending are the economic equivalent of Humpty Dumpty s argument in Through the Looking Glass When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.