While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
For him, it was worth burning some fossil fuels in the backhoe for an hour to save use the onerous and back-breaking job of shoveling a huge pile of gravel from one place to another.
Both candidates agree that the city should scale back onerous fines and fees on small businesses.
Labor's fight for relief from onerous working hours dates back more than a century -- and its victories have been hard won.
But in his twilight years Castro appeared to enjoy stepping back from the onerous duties of the presidency, if not the limelight.
American officials, for example, are loudly promising to battle the intricacies of financial reporting, possibly rolling back the most onerous aspects of laws like the Sarbanes-Oxley act.The average cost of the finance function has risen by 12% over the past three years, the author notes.
Or perhaps the news that the Republicans in the House just passed a bill which the Environmental Protection Agency estimates will cause 20,000 deaths -- all so corporations can pollute the air without the "onerous government regulations on their backs".
Europe should pare back spending while altering onerous labor market rules and other regulations that hamper business formation and growth.
They should be removing overly onerous obstacles to receiving benefits, rolling back work requirements, and doing better outreach to people in need of assistance.
Congressional hearings documented many instances where the seizures created enormous hardships for people and required that they engage in onerous litigation to try to win back money, cars, homes and businesses that were never part of a criminal scheme.
In general, he has pledged to roll back what he considers onerous regulations on U.S. businesses.
