(a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
(a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
(2) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(3) Such sentiments are not uncommon in job agencies, particularly those that specialise in factory and food work, where labour demand is variable and geographically shifting, and conditions often arduous.
(4) Although the technique is costly and arduous, grafting patients who are severely burned with cultured epidermal autografts has proved to be a life-saving measure where few alternatives exist.
(5) Kim Jong-un has little to offer in the way of policy except more of the same "Arduous march” North Koreans have had to endure since 1993.
(6) The confidence vote was but one step in a long and arduous journey to putting near-bankrupt Greece back on its feet – financially, politically and increasingly socially – barely a year after it secured €110bn (£97bn) in emergency aid, the biggest bailout in western history.
(7) After all, it was the state system that allowed an estimated one million people to starve during the ‘arduous march’ famine of the late 1990s .
(8) The etiopathogenesis is still controversial and differential diagnosis, especially from giant cell tumors of bone, is arduous.
(9) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(10) Legislative change is arduous and can be slow to come.
(11) John Terry insists players support José Mourinho to turn around Chelsea slump Read more Most obviously there is the fact that Mourinho is again finding being Chelsea manager for a third successive season an arduous undertaking.
(12) Click here to view video Dean Cundey, director of photography Romancing the Stone had been a very muddy, arduous shoot, so Back to the Future was simple by comparison – most of it was shot on the lot at Universal, or in neighbourhoods in Pasadena.
(13) Deficit reduction is a difficult and arduous task, which will put pressures on both business and consumers over the coming years.
(14) We are greatly heartened there will not be a long, arduous wait for the next milestone to arrive,” he said.
(15) Using Khi-2 tests and logistic models, the negative health effects of arduous shift work appear to be less than expected.
(16) | Anne Perkins Read more The failure of different providers of services to join up and share information has been highlighted repeatedly over the years; some efforts have been made, such as the integration of health and social care, but it’s often an arduous and unenviable task .
(17) This prevents unnecessary delay in treatment and makes contact tracing less arduous.
(18) Automated DNA sequencing methods using robotic workstations have been previously reported, however it is often an arduous task to import these technologies into a laboratory.
(19) The reconstruction of nasal deformities after trauma or surgical procedures presents an arduous task for the reconstructive surgeon.
(20) Freud considered the third phase to be an arduous task for the patient, and a trial of patience for the analyst, probably because of two additional determinants: (1) the patient's 'will' to change, and (2) his re-adaptation to his environment.
Burdensome
Definition:
(a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.
(2) So if some trustees feel that increased demands on their time will be too burdensome, it best to leave the field open to others.
(3) It would reduce burdensome regulation on business and help rebalance the economy towards exports.
(4) Collection, storage and retrieval of large amounts of data from multiple experiments for subsequent reduction, graphing and statistical analysis need not be a burdensome task.
(5) Eventual mastery of the burdensome experience involves reorganization of the individual's "assumptive world," namely of his intrapsychic maps of external reality and his internal system for guiding and motivating his behavior, which have been disorganized by the loss of their anchorage in the ruptured attachment.
(6) While these ethical responsibilities can be overwhelmingly burdensome, they can also be opportunities.
(7) Close collaboration between toxicologists and the authorities responsible for drawing up toxicological regulations is called for in order to ensure that the rules applied during the important and fascinating process of discovering and developing new drugs do not become unnecessarily burdensome.
(8) Should, then, oven manufacturers pay electricity companies for all that burdensome work they have to do to keep ovens working – especially when lightbulbs are so low-strain?
(9) As part of our long-term economic plan, we will sweep away burdensome red tape, get heavy handed regulators off firms’ backs and create a small business conciliation service to help resolve disputes.” It is estimated that small businesses are owed £32bn in late payments but are often unaware of their rights or are reluctant to take legal action, fearing they will lose future business.
(10) A large aspect of the research has been interviewing businessmen and women confronted by the burdensome issue of what to do with more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime.
(11) "Over 70% of firms see dismissal rules as burdensome to their business.
(12) Struggling businesses must be liberated from burdensome environmental regulations.
(13) Regulations, especially employment regulations, are particularly burdensome for small businesses and these should be radically simplified.
(14) Efforts to quash the subpoena require proof that the materials requested are irrelevant to the case, not subpoenaed for "good cause," or that compliance would be unduly oppressive and burdensome.
(15) It’s an attempt to withhold abortion from nearly all women in the US through burdensome regulation intended to stop insurers from covering abortions.
(16) The Red Tape Challenge states proposals will be reviewed by a ministerial “Star Chamber” with the presumption that burdensome regulations would disappear go unless they could be justified.
(17) The equation for the calculation of E from measured PET data is mathematically complex and its direct application in the generation of PET images of either E or the CMRO2 on a pixel-by-pixel basis is computationally burdensome.
(18) Several important advances have made the process more practical and acceptable: computer programs that eliminate the need for burdensome calculations, improved techniques for designing analytic models, the ability to carry out sensitivity analyses over several dimensions simultaneously, and the elaboration of clinically relevant measures of utility.
(19) In real dollar terms, Medtronic's taxes did not appear burdensome.
(20) Fifty % of the primary care-givers experienced their situation as not so burdensome, 25% as rather and also 25% as very burdensome.