Sentence examples for has been strenuous from inspiring English sources

There has been strenuous debate over whether America should get involved when there is famine in Somalia or Sudan, genocide in Rwanda, mass killings in East Timor or a refugee exodus in Kosovo.

The incoming administration has been strenuous in reaching out to Republican leaders in Congress — directly or through emissaries — while many prominent Republicans have been generous in kind, beginning with President Bush (who won grace points last week for again welcoming Mr. Obama to the White House, this time hosting a lunch with the three living ex-presidents).

In the past 40 years, there have been strenuous international efforts to dissuade other countries from joining the five declared nuclear weapons states.

Between 1985 and 1994, 12,000 people may have been killed.Since then, there have been strenuous efforts to shake off the province's war-zone image.

Unfortunately, these recommendations stopped short of a zero-tolerance policy for all abusive priests, an issue on which there appears to have been strenuous disagreement.

Despite raising little money, she has been a strenuous campaigner and has been very effective in televised debates.

About one in nine American workers belongs to a union, but that number includes the public sector, where unions have retained more power — although that influence, too, has been under strenuous attack in states such as Wisconsin and Kansas.

Lately there has been a strenuous and sophistic effort to show that the new social media — Facebook, especially, but there are certainly others — are just outsize reworkings of earlier forms of social organization, like the elite clubs of the Ivy League that have enjoyed a mystique since the 1960s.

As clear as the benefits of exercise are, explaining its effects at the molecular level has been scientifically strenuous.

Since then Koss has been a strenuous and highly-visible advocate for UNICEF's work on behalf of children everywhere, emphasizing the particular needs of children with disabilities and children affected by war.

Ms. Lee has been on a strenuous world tour that has lasted over a year.