Sentence examples for it arduous from inspiring English sources

But when he arrived in the Senate, he found it arduous and dull.

Its lack of compromise makes it gruelling; a lack of tonal variety makes it arduous.

But even if the father consents, the Saudi government makes it arduous for the couple to proceed with the marriage.

Even so, in Indonesia, where the Suharto family dominates many sectors, bribery can make it arduous and expensive to set up a new firm.

Her pace is civilized and leisurely, but she covers much ground and has clearly done a good deal of research and travel, some of it arduous.

How unkind it would be to make it arduous for us to stay here and compel us to move to a smaller house or flat, devoid of associations and not capable of hospitality.

"I know that it is arduous, that it is painful, that it is a drawn-out task," Ms. Merkel said.

"I know that it's arduous, that it's painful, that it's drawn-out," she said.

It is perhaps the greatest long novel about India, but it was neglected because it was arduous to translate.

It was arduous, chancy work, but it fed the family.

It was long and it was arduous, but uneventful.