She obviously understands all the roles she dances and makes painstaking attempts to convey their stylistic nuances.

More likely, Sir Patrick's business will be to continue Mr Peter Brooke's painstaking attempts to find common ground among Ulster's politicians.

Seen against a larger fictional landscape overpopulated with the sensational and affectless, her work stands out for its sheer intelligence, its painstaking attempt to discern and describe the world's configuration.

The British were quite noble in their painstaking attempts to administer the true religious law of the people they were colonizing.

The eggs were donated by the Kansas Zoological Gardens in a painstaking attempt to rebuild a flock of trumpeters in Michigan.

Despite Rodriguez's painstaking attempts to paint his friendship with Jeter as sturdy, one Yankees official, who has spent time around both players this month, avoided a question about the two.

Created as the result of a painstaking attempt to remodel a hermit's cave based on the Lourdes Grotto, the resulting church was blocked up during communist times and re-opened in the 1990s.

This awkwardness derives not from bad design but from a painstaking attempt to render exactly what Mr. Pearlstein sees in front of him.

SOMETIMES it can be the off-the-cuff ideas that spark innovative business ventures, rather than a painstaking attempt to find that elusive gap in the market.

Those painstaking attempts to recreate the original performances are what define Mr. Silipigni, artistic director and principal conductor for the New Jersey State Opera.