1.   Amazingly, despite their tortured history, the Clippers managed to go another full decade before again securing the first pick overall.

2.   American policy toward the Balkans has a tortured history.

3.   And it also is one with a particularly tortured history.

4.   Both sides spent hours lecturing the former president on their tortured history.

5.   But do the stories really convey the intensity of the times in this place with its tortured history?

6.   But in no time, there will be a new case, with a victim who died horribly and a defendant whose own tortured history must be investigated.

7.   But nothing in the tortured history of the Tongass has ever been typical.

8.   For his tortured history with handballs, U.S. defender Gregg Berhalter was blase about one that might have gone in his favor.

9.   He and Saddam also have a tortured history, and their relationship is not built on mutual trust.

10.   He immersed himself in the tortured history of Anglo-Irish relations and the byzantine world of Northern Irish politics.