Extensive, painstaking studies should always precede action, missile shields of course excepted.

Nothing short of painstaking study of each case will afford a basis for advice and action.

Each relief derives from painstaking studies of the foreshortened figure - a classic skill that is rare in today's contemporary scene.

Only a painstaking study would show that your head was bobbing slightly with each step.

His assumption that it was a weapon had been reached after some fairly painstaking study.

Whatever you call it, his painstaking study of Sondheim's words backfired.

The decisions of the selection committee are arrived at after months of painstaking study.

Reland was acclaimed for his painstaking studies of Islam and linguistic research.

The article went on to say that years of painstaking study have not produced a formula to predict earthquakes.

Each of Bose's works was a painstaking study of form, rhythm and natural beauty.