Sentence examples for onerous on from inspiring English sources

I was astounded when presented with a bill based on $1.80 per gallon because I had pulled up to an attendant-served pump, an absurd surcharge for having an attendant put gas in one's automobile, and particularly onerous on senior citizens and other drivers who may have no choice due to physical limitations.

Taking women but not men out of work to care for new babies sets the wheels of inequality in motion: Female employees, but not male ones, will bear the burden of their leaves being considered costly and onerous on their employers, which can have professional consequences for the women themselves as well as potential female hires, who employers may fear will take too much time off.

President Bill Clinton vetoed a similar bill last year, describing it as too onerous on debtors.

Mr. Strict's recommendation for solving Steffi's housebreaking problem was much more onerous — on us.

"There is widespread recognition that business rates have become overly onerous on retail.

Ms. Quinn thanked the advocates for listening to the concerns of small businesses and revising the bill to make it less onerous on them.

Once the doctors are working in district hospitals, it is difficult or sometimes impossible to assemble a group of them to attend a 5-day course because they are dispersed geographically and have heavy workloads and onerous on-call rotas.

But the government is on a drive to tackle onerous, heavy-on-the-red-tape legislation, and the liquor-chocolate ban (which supposedly makes business difficult for corner shops) is just one of many unnecessary rules to be scrapped.

The Co-op is believed to be offering a £40m dowry to pass on the onerous leases on the empty properties.

£5m was written off on "onerous contracts" and £16m on failed programmes and developments.

Just believing in the Lord and Jesus is better than following onerous guidelines on how to live one's life.