Sentence examples for more trying than from inspiring English sources

Austere and piously Sunni, Ter Maaleh proved even more trying than Libya.

The power company, PacifiCorp, agreed to the deal when it became clear that relicensing the dams would be more expensive and more trying than removing them.

In a period more trying than our own, Cross did for Connecticut what no leader seems able to do for America today.

Mussina allowed only four hits over six and a third innings, but he said the effort was more trying than it seemed.

I speak from experience when I say that this can be even more trying than whirling a sharpened stick between your hands until it draws first smoke, and then a flame from a dip in a second piece of wood.

Which is, of course, excruciatingly hard work, far more trying than any executive.

Becoming a partner there is a more trying process than at other firms, including 9 to 12 years of evaluations known as 360-degree reviews and competition against an array of the best and the brightest, not just from the Ivy League and top business schools but diamonds in the rough from state universities as well.

Switching from a funded PhD, with a guaranteed stipend for 3 years and with worldwide travel to conferences as an all-expenses-paid luxury bonus, to a medical degree with no income that meant more years of intensive study is a more trying move than most.

Meanwhile, no case could be a more trying test of legal reforms than that of Mr. Khodorkovsky, who made enemies with Mr. Medvedev's mentor, Vladimir V. Putin, who was president and is now prime minister.

But more trying times were ahead.

It has been struggling through one of the more trying times of its century of retailing.