Sentence examples for arduous talks from inspiring English sources

After arduous talks with the state teachers' union — the biggest contributor to New Jersey politicians — a major reform measure was passed that made tenure harder to achieve and much easier to revoke.

Three Democrats and three Republicans from the Senate Finance Committee will brief Obama on Thursday about the progress of their sometimes arduous talks, which are now set to extend through the August recess.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed.

Currently embroiled in arduous talks with BTA over restructuring their debt in hopes of trimming their losses, foreign bankers claim they did their homework before making the loans, although none would publicly discuss their relationship with BTA and its controversial chairman.

Moreover the protocol -- whose name comes from Japan's ancient capital, where its terms were hammered out nearly four years ago after a decade of arduous talks -- represents a rare opportunity for Japan to take the pivotal position on an issue of major international importance.

That opens the way for arduous talks on forming a coalition with some of the other parties in parliament.

Instead weeks - maybe months - of arduous coalition talks.

North Korea detonated a plutonium-based device in 2006, adding urgency to arduous six-nation talks to halt the North's nuclear program.

LONDON — After six arduous years of talks on its bid for European Union membership, Croatia was told Friday that it should be able to join in 2013, but that its efforts to combat corruption and reform its judiciary will be monitored in the meantime in case they slip.

Maathai's life changed dramatically after she had been awarded the prize, and there followed years of arduous travel, lectures and talks to governments and groups.

Their lesson, which was arduous, was broken by talk.