Sentence examples for onerous thing from inspiring English sources

Taking away someone's income is a hugely onerous thing, and we don't take it lightly".

When he calls the office "an onerous thing," he means it as a compliment.

The mirror can be an onerous thing to a cancer patient, and I no longer recognized myself.

"I am confident you will find a way to make us look like terrible people all over again for insisting on such an onerous thing," he said in the e-mail message.

Though on the surface having to have a correct postcode doesn't seem like a particularly onerous thing to ask the customer, Perfume retailer The Fragrance Shop managed to reduce its cart abandonment rates by 10% by using Postcode Anywhere's address validation, Capture+, on its site.

Friedman was reticent to suggest measures women should take, saying it would be "just another onerous thing women have to do [to stay safe]," but suggested self-defense classes for women "who feel like there are literally no safe ways to go out".

Mathew Lawrence, research fellow at the IPPR,said: "The state already requires people to do much more onerous things than to turn up at a polling station.

Eliminating onerous regulations — things like occupational licenses that restrict eligibility for a variety of jobs and overly tight zoning laws that prevent the building of new homes — would improve economic efficiency and equity.

The insurer had written insurance on mortgage securities— a derivative known as a credit default swap — and almost collapsed after, among other things, onerous collateral calls from its trading partners drained its cash.

More crossing-points and fewer onerous checks would speed things up on the American side; pre-clearance of containers and passengers could be improved if Mexico were less touchy about having American officers on its soil (something which Canada does not mind).

"What is very clear is that it would have a certain resonance in the way it articulates things that show the tax aversion of the American public, and the general skepticism of the national government getting involved in things, and the fact that it being April 13, lots of us are sitting preparing taxes, which is certainly one of the most onerous and less pleasant things we do," she said.