And consumer advocates say they expect long and tortuous negotiations to sort out just who gets how much of the money.

The Namibian agreement came only after long and tortuous negotiations.

But many previous such timetables have slipped in the tortuous negotiations.

That is reflected in the tortuous negotiations on the Hill.

Both sides have by turn compromised and thrown up roadblocks in their tortuous negotiations.

Even so, after two years of tortuous negotiations, Point Enterprises could still see its efforts come to nothing.

After tortuous negotiations, a ceasefire was signed on 18 June 2000.

This draft took months of tortuous negotiations in sessions described as group therapy for nervous Democrats.

Sometimes the most tortuous negotiations can be teased along with a grand gesture by a single person.

"Why, after eleven years of hard work and tortuous negotiations to put this deal together should the court let one disgruntled group block it?"