(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.
Energy
Definition:
(n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
(n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
(n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
(n.) Capacity for performing work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(6) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(7) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
(8) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(9) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(10) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(11) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(12) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
(13) Results indicate that energy had not returned to patients' satisfaction in 37% of the cases.
(14) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(15) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(16) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(17) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(18) At constant arterial pO2, changes in coronary flow were associated with changes in energy-rich phosphates, but not systematically with changes in coronary venous pO2.
(19) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
(20) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.