Examples of arduous

• It is to these influences and the net effects of poverty, deprivation and early and arduous employment on children's welfare that we now turn.

• The task of compiling a family reconstitution for a village is arduous, and sometimes ' ' extremely so.

• Domestic work remained especially arduous since, even in the 1970s, a large part of rural housing lacked basic amenities.

• The journey into evacuation, although often long and almost inevitably arduous, traversed no international boundary.

• Despite all this, completing the book - though immensely rewarding - is an arduous undertaking.

• The network of safety rehumanized patients by providing a sense of safety in the face of arduous treatment and recovery.

• No longer is it such an arduous task to keep track of words that never stay still, though problems for dictionary-makers still abound.

• His birthplace, however, proved a partial salvation from the arduous and debilitating routine of plantation labour in the coffee fields.

• But the following two examples show that this could be arduous.

• For their part, the women are probably happy enough to be relieved of what (despite its romantic possibilities) is such arduous, unpleasant and low-status toil.

• To better our condition on a continuous basis is an arduous process, one that must ultimately undermine our efforts at moral improvement.

• Choosing deliberately to care and to maintain the relationship through sickness, even when this was arduous, gave them gratification.

• Generalizing the accumulated knowledge of this rural past becomes an arduous task, therefore.

• Clarification of this point would however be extremely arduous and is beyond the scope of this present paper.

• Moreover, since new recruits were commonly assigned the most physically taxing work, older members could be released for less arduous tasks.