The tensions reflect the tortuous history of attempts to reduce Long Island's high electricity rates.

He filed his suit, which has had a tortuous procedural history but has not yet gone to trial, in 1979.

The bill's tortuous history shows how school financing, in the hands of the Legislature, quickly turns to political posturing.

The evolution of the concept of "government" has had a long, tortuous history.

Given the parade's tortuous history, that's a fair response to the St. Patrick's mess as well.

In that long and tortuous history, gold has now arrived at a new moment of opportunity and peril.

Congress Takes a Hand Subscriber line charges have had a tortuous history.

Nonetheless, for the first time in Russia's tortuous political history, candidates were demonstrating an appreciation of the power of television and image.

This situation has had a genuinely tortuous history, which began last summer.

Since then the patent has had a long and tortuous history.