After a tortuous and fiercely contested passage through Parliament, the new legislation was approved by the upper house.

How sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart!

If the board should reject it, another proposed site would have to negotiate that tortuous passage.

The community was protected by natural phenomena above it and by a tortuous passage on the ground that could never be defined on a map.

The Radisha led her brother through tortuous passages.

But as 172 j Piers Anthony he navigated the tortuous passages, he encountered another person: the girl's mother.

I came at last to a great declivity, from which the only feasible escape was a tortuous passage through the rock: a narrow cave.

Their sloping outer walls closely adjoined each other, forming a tortuous passage which was strewn with boulders and rocky debris.

She had survived a tortuous passage.

The crime bill's tortuous passage through Congress demonstrated the N.R.A.'s continuing influence in Washington.