Sentence examples for on a strenuous from inspiring English sources

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

Off the resort, we swam in the public pool and cycled on a strenuous nature trail.

He embarked on a strenuous campaign to raise money, not only from member countries but from the international capital markets and from the newly affluent Arab oil states.

After embarking on a strenuous internal investigation, Mr. Silverman has cooperated extensively with regulators and been pointed in his contention that blame for this fraud lies elsewhere.

This led to an undergraduate summer spent on a strenuous, foolhardy walk around Syria and then a job on an archeological dig in Carchemish.

"A fallen phoenix," Xuan'er is humbly married off to the feckless son of a female blacksmith, and embarks on a strenuous life of domestic chores and wartime marches on crippled feet.

Keats's stunning image, in the "Ode on Melancholy," of a "strenuous tongue" bursting a whole grape by pressing it against a "palate fine" suggests the power of a poetics that exploits the relative novelty of such sensation, especially where we expect another sense to predominate.

Manville is preparing for a strenuous stint on the American PR circuit, with some trepidation.

After a few days of being on such a strenuous cycle of healing, I started to look a bit better, but I felt worse than ever.

The result is saved from banality on the one hand, and sensationalism on the other, by a strenuous sustained effort on the part of an imagination that is, like its subject's, at once historical, aesthetic and streetwise.

Jim Nussle, a former congressman from Iowa, was nominated as his successor and will take on the job amid a strenuous budget battle on Capitol Hill.