Without a hold in New Guinea, the subsequent Allied advance, arduous though it was, would have been more difficult.
It was a long and arduous process of slowly advancing first from town to town along the Nineveh plains toward the city and then from block to block as they worked to liberate sectors of the city.
His expedition crew of 40 people and 60 yaks, strapped with duffel bags, tents, propane tanks, folding chairs, cooking equipment and other essential gear, wound its way through the Qomolangma (Chinese for Everest) Nature Preserve in southern Tibet for an arduous two-week trek to Advance Base Camp, where the north face of Mount Everest towered to the right and Lhakpa Ri rose to the left.
The Louisiana Republican said in a Wednesday interview with The Washington Post that he is committed to continuing in office and maintaining his leadership role, working as hard as ever to advance the GOP agenda even as he continues an arduous rehabilitation.
To support this view, Mr O'Hanlon argues persuasively that holding back a North Korean advance would be less arduous a military task than Pentagon planners seem to assume.This scaling down of Pentagon goals, he argues, should allow a reduction in the size, though not the number, of the armed forces' components carrier groups, army divisions and so on.
Among some ethnic groups music would help advance a repetitive or arduous task.
Mr. Tancredo, 61, formed an exploratory committee to raise money for what he termed an "arduous and undeniably uphill battle" that would advance his views on overhauling immigration law.
Further advance across Anatolia was even more arduous, and it was only after suffering many casualties, especially in the region of the Taurus Mountains, that the Crusaders arrived near Antioch on October 20.
But her children grew up, she and her husband divorced, and medical advances made the donation process less arduous.
"It's just arduous enough that it forces you to think in advance about what you're trying to do — about the big picture, and about how one shot is going to lead to the next," he said.
