Sentence examples for had been arduous from inspiring English sources

Police and school authorities said the investigation had been arduous, based on the number of suspects and their ages.

Another good thing she thought of while the other children wept was that the journey to the school had been arduous and far.

Mr. Pawlenty, who has been among the most active likely candidates on the fund-raising circuit, said that it had been arduous but that the large number of uncommitted donors presented an opportunity for first-time candidates like himself.

But Rick Caruso, a businessman who is president of the Police Commission, insisted that the evaluation of the chief had been arduous, fair and focused purely on the facts, and that those facts supported what he called a series of damning failures on the chief's part.

That feat earned Tenzing a rest from his career as a climber, which had been arduous, and plunged him into a new career, involving contracts, publicity, and politics, which is a good deal more lucrative but which puts him under another kind of strain.

But the process has been arduous.

That change has been arduous for business, but very salutary.

Running Warner's movie operation has been arduous, but he says he has relished the pressure.

The training, he said in an interview, has been arduous and fun.

Mr. Picard's job is to recover as much money as possible for the victims, and the process has been arduous.

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and Wall Street Journal have been arduous in promoting and inflating Tea Party events and celebrities to this propagandistic end.