And the budget process was always confusing: onerous cuts would be proposed by the mayor, rejected by the City Council and sometimes patched up with "electricity savings" and other mysterious pots of money.
Protecting Mr. Mandela's image has always been an onerous task.
Obtaining capital on onerous terms has always been a requirement for companies in their infancy.
The wealthiest among us are always best able to work around onerous regulations.
Conversely, he is tough on Germany — which he says should remember that onerous debts do not always lead to happy results.
The police do not owe a general duty of care to the public – the courts have always said that would be too onerous – but in specific circumstances they might.
And cap-and-trade is not a tax requiring a two-thirds legislative vote, since business can always choose to go the more onerous regulation-only route.
"Our mindset is always to make rules less rather than more onerous but let's wait and see where those consultations go".
"They are more onerous than they have ever been.
PFI gets stuff built, but badly negotiated contracts in the past have left education and NHS budgets carrying onerous long-term costs in some instances, not always for the right sort of building either.
