This week they rejected European leaders' arduously negotiated budget compromise.
It has had some effect, but river-borne traffic is sharply down, with more cargo travelling more arduously by land.Then China brought the criminals back to face its justice.
And if the Doha round fails completely, the recriminations could run far and wide threatening any attempt, for example, to get agreement between the developed and developing world on new mechanisms to deal with climate change.Economic and financial power is to some extent up for bids by governments with a stake in the game, and trade rules are (arduously) negotiable.
But attention, and pressure, need to be arduously maintained.
That seems to be a striking and definitive U-turn for the Chinese telecoms giant, which has tried arduously to sell its networking kit to American telecoms operators.
It is not where a country arduously seeking to attract foreign investment wants to be.One way Jokowi has tried to fight corruption is by removing opportunities.
It was followed over years by the Gettysburg Address, the Constitution and the King James Bible, all arduously hand-typed, full of errors, by Mr Hart.
By 2008 the white of ground and figures was virtually the same, except that he thought of the ground as "well-earned white", arduously brought out of the original black, and except that the newly painted figures would shine out against it until they dried.
However, one essential difference that separates this novella from the genre is that it never feigns to be a reality and clearly states in the preface to be a complete fantasy intended to soothe the mind, whereas most science fiction works arduously strive to be an extension of our reality.
He worked arduously in the garden and woodlands, becoming in the 1930s something of an authority on horticulture, especially on the growing of roses.
However, as the years pass, have no doubt that one's friends will become ever more arduously grasping in their dining demands.
