1.   As election officials continued the tedious process of examining ballot cards, both campaigns waged public relations battles throughout the day.

2.   At a more practical level, respect for the complexity of nature takes into account the enormous potential for human error in the tedious process of scientific experimentation.

3.   But for those who spend their lives at a keyboard and hate the tedious process of scrawling out dozens of cards, the Web offers some help this year.

4.   But getting that message out to the public is a tedious process, requiring the accumulation of one witty speech and interview after another.

5.   By the next day, she began the tedious process of claiming her prize.

6.   Eggs are usually gently baked in a water bath, a tedious process.

7.   Eventually we found a tree that was only slightly lopsided, and we went about the tedious process of felling it with our rented bow saw.

8.   Fu is considered a genius in the tedious process of making viral vectors -- the transportation systems that carry engineered genes to their cellular destinations.

9.   Grim-faced firefighters paced back and forth while a massive crane was set in place to begin the tedious process of removing debris before anyone could enter.