Sentence examples for onerous measures from inspiring English sources

The cuts, far from the draconian measures many people had feared, are spread over many county departments and rely heavily on less onerous measures like a hiring freeze, the loss of jobs through attrition and incentive packages to get county employees to quit their jobs.

The lack of substantive progress in Moscow also appeared to reflect Iran's willingness to endure punishing economic sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union, with more onerous measures looming within weeks, that Obama administration officials have been hoping would force the Iranians to be more flexible.

Improving the patent situation could be seen as a kind of stick-and-carrot scenario, where one might improve the other without too onerous measures being taken.

The possibility of a more onerous measure confronted Iran in Washington, where senators voted, 100 to 0, to penalize any foreign bank that does business with Iran's Central Bank, the conduit for Iran's receipts from oil sales.

Mr. Kouvelis, too, insisted that some of the more onerous austerity measures be substituted with softer alternatives.

Tsipras hopes Syriza's electoral victory will give him renewed clout to negotiate debt relief and less onerous austerity measures from Greece's creditors.

Some foreign policy analysts ascribed the security problems to a culture that is somewhat resistant to onerous security measures, and to sweeping cutbacks in the department's overall budget.

He will argue that less onerous austerity measures would speed this process, a line that is likely to find little support at the European Commission, the ECB or in Germany.

Lt Gen Brar, the fourth generation of army officers in his family and whose father was educated at Sandhurst, said his wife, the daughter of a brigadier, had spent her married life living under the onerous security measures.

The baton passed to Mr. Venizelos, the veteran Socialist, after the failure of Mr. Tsipras to realize his "dream of a government of the left" based on a rejection of the debt deal and the onerous austerity measures it has imposed.

The impending trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) has caused anxiety and fear in the Lower Manhattan community as some residents decry the risk of a potential terrorist attack during the trial and the onerous security measures that the surrounding neighborhood will undoubtedly face.