It is a quiet, painstaking slog behind the scenes.

This is, in itself, a lengthy and painstaking exercise.

However, as noted in the report, implementing NEPAD remains a complex and painstaking process.

Fraught by political pressures, financial disagreements and other complexities, the process was painstaking and expensive.

This determined the painstaking path of creating the Republic associations of professional artists and associated workers.

The report of the Division is the result of painstaking effort and analysis of the MDG database.

These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.

All those who made that possible through painstaking and complicated negotiations, with persistence and tenacity of effort, are to be commended.

Countries spend years negotiating trade rules, but exchange rate movements can, within days, have a greater impact on trade than those painstaking deals.

Already, the end of the Cold War and painstaking diplomacy have brought the US India relationship to a point unimaginable just ten years ago.

Successive quandaries and crises have revealed the flaws in the EU s institutional design, and each (painstaking) upgrade has made the European project that much stronger.

Argentina s trial of the generals was a successful ritual in the painstaking transition from military junta to democracy, but the experience ended with weeping self doubt.

By the nature of the issues involved, it is evident that this will be a painstaking process that requires broader and deeper consultations and, indeed, reflection.

SEOUL After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.

Let me briefly refer to the Outcome Document before us, which we all know is a text that has finally emerged after many stages of painstaking negotiations.

The promotion of human rights was always the result of painstaking work and advocacy, with the involvement of the Government concerned and with due respect for its sovereign authority.

The basis for our reform agenda is the 2005 World Summit Outcome document (resolution 60 1), the result of much thought, much labour and much painstaking scrutiny I think everyone would agree on that.

Canada notes that the Protocol represents a painstaking balance of interests and we welcome its adoption as a favourable event that will help to ensure the safety of the United Nations and associated personnel.

The thing that amazed me is the painstaking detail with which he has written every hospital he has been to, every treatment he got, every near miss he had, and how accidentally he stumbled upon innovations.

The complex and painstaking nature of the process involved in turning NEPAD objectives into practical achievements comes through quite clearly in the discussion of the various sectors of the NEPAD programme in the report of the Secretary General.

To save lives in the short term, it was often necessary to survey and mark the location of landmines and to make people aware of their dangers until the painstaking and expensive clearance operations could be carried out.

This year s Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (the IPCC). These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.

As stated in the Secretary General's report, NEPAD aims to generate broad based and equitable growth that allows Africa to reduce poverty and integrate better into the world economy (A 60 178, para. 5) a task that is complex and painstaking.

After a painstaking review of the scientific evidence, both expert groups prepared an assessment report, which also contained the Forum's recommendations to assist the affected countries in remediating the land contaminated with long lived radionuclides and in providing health care to people affected by the accident.

I called it Serious Nonsense because on the serious side, I use a technique of painstaking realism of editorial illustration from when I was a kid. I copied it and I never unlearned it it's the only style I know. And it's very kind of staid and formal.

Our work in the months ahead may be hard and painstaking and may seem to lead nowhere, but we must never forget that what we are doing is making every effort, to borrow the words of Secretary General Kofi Annan, to pass on to our children a brighter inheritance than that bequeathed to any previous generation (Ibid., para.