Sentence examples for arduous passage from inspiring English sources

The finale came with an almost breathless whoosh; at one point you saw double-bass players sharing smiles after a particularly arduous passage.

In later books — he wrote more than a dozen — Dr. Janov extended the time frame for repressed trauma backward, to include the baby's arduous passage out of the womb at birth and psychic trauma in utero.

Among many birds, of course, eggs are oval rather than round, a trait that biologists attribute to both the arduous passage the egg makes through the avian oviduct, and the fact that oval eggs roll in a circle rather than a straight line and thus are less likely to fall out of a nest.

But we take the relentless ups and downs in comfortable stride, often hiking alongside the horses, coaxing them through the most arduous passages.

From there, it's usually a long, arduous journey to final passage and a governor's signature.

Both dancers maintained an admirable calm throughout the passages of arduous partnering.

But to get to that point — of standing motionless in serried lines on one of the world's great stages — is a passage as long and arduous as that of the principals before them.

The journey will be fierce and difficult, requiring them to deal with the terrifying, often hostile lords of each domain – but Ludo is willing to keep faith with Renti, so the two of them set out on their arduous quest, picked out in descriptive passages as vivid as illuminated manuscripts.

The school construction effort, which would be the most ambitious in the nation, appeared close to passage before today, after months of arduous negotiations between Governor Whitman and the leaders of both houses, all three of whom are Republicans.

ALBANY — For Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the arduous budget battle that was concluded on Tuesday with the passage of one of the tardiest budgets in state history could serve as a preview of next year.

Days later, when Obama delivered his weekly White House address, the subject was not the arduous attempt to reach a climate-saving global pact but passage of a financial reform bill in the House that would create a consumer financial protection agency.