Sentence examples for grueling effort from inspiring English sources

But the festival, which drew hundreds of thousands to packed prayer services at churches throughout the city, mass confessions at Circus Maximus, and the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum, was as much a Special Olympics of the soul -- a huge, often grueling effort by young Catholics to show the world that not all of today's youths live in a secular, morality-free zone.

He had to cut his manuscript by half, a grueling effort that took him months.

"One night, after a grueling effort to carry guns up the side of a mountain, Maqroll must sleep.

Many of the girls said it was partly the nerve and grueling effort required to do the difficult job of rowing a boat at speeds of six miles an hour in head or tail winds that drew them to the sport.

"It was really tough in the beginning," he told No Barriers, recalling the grueling effort, "but I pushed through it".

So in the days leading up to Tuesday's primary election, he is running 100 miles across the city in a grueling effort to introduce himself to as many of them as possible.

It doesn't take a lot of brain power, it just takes a lot of grueling vigilant effort and I get lost in it...There's so much [health information] that the parents get lost".

"It's just a grueling, grueling run.

The conference title gratified that grueling rehabilitation and his effort required to start anew with the Broncos after leaving the Colts before the 2012 season.

Drained by grueling hearts-and-minds efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military is refocusing on fighting and killing the enemy, not nation-building.

It seemed to lift him, and the rallies became routinely grueling, with both players moaning with effort.