Sentence examples for onerous as from inspiring English sources

The second task of the new government, to secure the loyalty of its approximately 15 million citizens, proved onerous as well.

This is not as onerous as it perhaps reads.

"But as onerous as it is, it is not an insult".

As onerous as these taxes sound, they would raise only about $3.7 billion.

I divided it into fourteen steps as onerous as the Stations of the Cross.

"It's not as onerous as you might expect," one investment banker said.

In August, when the real depreciated a little, that debt became less onerous as exporters' extra earnings boosted tax revenues.

"It's as onerous as what they did to the N.A.A.C.P. in the 1950s, and I plan to make that point".

That deficit level is not as onerous as, say, Greece's at 9 percent or Ireland's at 13 percent.

What had been a trusty sluff job was now as onerous as swinging a kaiser blade or shovelling out ditches.

Democrats, meanwhile, warn against any requirements that are so onerous as to exclude large numbers of the undocumented.