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arduous

(= grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing pace (= straining, strenuous) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance his final, straining burst of speed a strenuous task your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here — F.D.Roosevelt difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill the arduous work of preparing a dictionary

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Simple sentences

The situation is becoming arduous.
They call it an English grammar book; I call it an arduous, soul-draining and depressing experience pushing the limits of human patience.

Movie subtitles

If I do, this will be the most intense, arduous, And painful training you have ever experienced.
Months passed of arduous work by doctor and patient Finally today.
My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath for our order knows only silken bonds.
Gentlemen, with the regiment leaving for a winter campaign in the morning, and the women and children being sent to Fort Bliss, I am sure you have many arduous and difficult tasks to perform.
Long, arduous combat duty.
The path is arduous!
It's an arduous journey, but the trade winds will be in our favor all the way.
Well, uh, perhaps I was a bit hasty. This has been a most arduous journey, What with everything happening.
You see, one day, after a not particularly arduous or expensive skirmish, they were all gathered round me.
But the more arduous a man's function, and Mr Klamm's tasks are formidable indeed, the less energy remains to shield oneself from the outer world.
Unfortunately, the strain of arduous pursuit has exceeded even its advanced qualities.
One: the public should be informed that the apes, after their arduous space voyage and the fatigue arising from its publicity, are to be afforded rest in a location whose identity will not be divulged to the public.
To kill people is quite arduous.
Because from now on, your path to salvation will be more arduous.
At the arduous southern slope we tackle heights of thousands of metres each day.
Our ascent lead us through dangerous, arduous jungle walls until reaching the border of eternal snow, rising up beside canyons alongside dizzying slopes. After many days of straining, the magic realm of the unknown animal lay ahead of us.
On an arduous cliff hill there can be found a house from the earliest Tibetan people. As the legend goes there lived a creature by the cross breeding of an ape and a devil-woman.
When we reach the arduous road we look down to the desolate mountain lake.
I am pleased, Count Radetzky, that you made the arduous journey to visit me in lschl.
But Your Majesty, knighthood is an arduous ritual.
She knew there was a way, a difficult and arduous way, but an honest way.
It's long and arduous.
The strain of arduous pursuit has exceeded its qualities.
Shipments of large quantities of gold from one country to another is not only arduous but dangerous.
The history of these figures becomes more interesting, perhaps. when I tell you that the originals were destroyed. twelve years ago, in London, in a fire. and were reproduced only after years of arduous toil.
You have earned them after a long and arduous period of training and they proclaim to the world that you have accomplished your first job.
On the contrary, thinking well, you are arduous and evil.
Your work will be the least arduous of 'em all.
And with the passing of every cosmic minute each minute 30,000 years long we began the arduous journey towards understanding where we live and who we are.
Scientists never seemed to grasp the enormous potential of machines to free people from arduous and repetitive labor.
Going up to the mountain is an arduous task.
It's a long, arduous journey of personal and spiritual discovery.
The ritual may have been arduous for you, Captain, but it was certainly worthwhile.
When I first got here, I assumed the clamp was just a refined form of torture to make our prison stay that much more arduous.
My love, the journey will be long and arduous.
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News and current affairs

Europe's leaders will find that improving education and training - and throwing open hitherto protected markets - is a long and arduous task.
Membership talks can't help but be long and arduous, if only because adopting the acquis communautaire (the body of EU law) requires that Turkey integrate around 10,000 pages of texts into its legislation.
While these were important, however, Germany did not begin its arduous path away from zero hour with concern for the past.
Even if such efforts succeed, the road to a full-fledged democratic system in Iraq will still be arduous and expensive.
While treating MDR-TB remains possible, doing so is arduous, with a treatment time of roughly two years, using drugs that are neither as efficient nor as benign as canonical drugs - and at a cost that rises by a factor of 10-100.
All the same, this municipal election should be looked upon as a giant first step in the arduous journey toward Saudi democracy.
Beginning with a gin and tonic just after noon, and ending with a Napoleon brandy at three o'clock, lunch prior to the Big Bang was often the most arduous part of a stockbroker's day.
Instead of entrusting America with the arduous task of safeguarding international stability on its own, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) will assume a more prominent role in policing their own backyards.
Now the army is faced with the delicate and arduous task of steering the country back onto a path toward elections and a rapid return to democratic rule.
The Franco-British agreement in 2010 was one hopeful sign for 2011 and beyond: a step along the arduous but necessary path toward greater European security.
Perhaps the long-term evolutionary cost of our complexity is too high, with our survival as a species ultimately depending on our ability to mitigate its fitness cost through increasingly arduous therapeutic solutions.
NEWPORT BEACH - The United States has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room.
Reaching that point will be arduous for both sides, but as President Clinton said when announcing the summit, the alternative is far worse.
But they soon discovered that realizing this prospect would require a longer and more arduous journey than they had anticipated.
It was not until late in the decade, when the banking sector was reorganized and corporate restructuring was encouraged, that Japan made progress on the long, arduous road of balance-sheet repair and structural transformation.

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