Sentence examples for on the arduous from inspiring English sources

This year, the actor took on the arduous task of selling "Clunes' kisses" to visitors.

The best feeling of all is less understood — that by taking on the arduous challenge of Van Cortlandt you are granted some hard-to-define blessing; the work itself is a sacrament.

Others took on the arduous task of welding a defunct empire into a nation-state, most prominently Chiang Kai-shek, whose urban-based Nationalist Party first brought a semblance of political unity to postimperial China.

A teetotaler and nonsmoker, he took on the arduous task of shepherding Cash to performances through the years of his well-documented drug abuse and erratic, self-destructive behavior.

Convinced that fairness would elude him as long as he was a foreigner here, Mr. Sugawara, 35, who is married to a Japanese woman, took on the arduous challenge of becoming a naturalized Japanese citizen, a status rarely granted to Westerners in a country where immigrants themselves are few.

To take on the arduous and protracted struggle that exiting promised requires a steely will forged in outrage and adversity.

Once you've had enough of candlelight and attentive servers, it's on to the arduous task of wrapping yourself in luxury with a body treatment or massage.

The On the Road column on Tuesday, about the arduous three-day journey of Carol Margolis from her management consulting job in Norway to Colorado Springs and back, misspelled the name of the Norwegian city where Ms. Margolis began and ended her trip.

Mr. Chen's departure from Beijing on Saturday, and the arduous negotiations that led up to it, appeared to reflect careful calculations in both countries that the episode was not worth jeopardizing relations.

The triumph of the book is its passionate and scrupulously detailed picture of Lagos the roadside bukas that serve hot stew on steel plates, the arduous choreography of the traffic, and the glittering shopping malls to which Furo/Frank gravitates, because all races mix there in a neutral atmosphere of globalized wealth.

began on Tuesday night the arduous process of selling and defending campaign finance legislation that he helped write, suggesting that the disclosure exemption added for the National Rifle Association is necessary for the bill's passage and raising the specter of shadow groups funded by BP determining elections if legislation is not passed.