Certainly it didn't help A-Rod's cause that he ended a second straight postseason run by striking out on the final out and his futility in this series makes his mammoth contract seem even more onerous, writes John Harper in The Daily News.
Schools that do not meet their annual target for every group of students — as defined by race, poverty, language and disability status — are subject to increasingly onerous sanctions written into the federal law.
When tomorrow is a long time away, and you feel like you ain't going nowhere yet one more cup of coffee won't do; when you think to yourself, any day now, I shall be released from the onerous task of writing up my science research about farting, the solution is blowin' in the wind: throw in some Bob Dylan lyrics for the hell of it.
Writing is onerous (especially with an ultra-thin pencil) — writing feels like work because it is work — and, day by day, life is pretty routine, repetitive, and, we should face it, boring.
The Morgans Hotel Group, owner and manager of the boutique hotels, struck a rescue investment deal with Mr. Burkle's Yucaipa Companies in late 2009 on onerous terms, Steven M. Davidoff writes in his Deal Professor column.
Sontag underwent surgery and treatment for metastatic, stage-four breast cancer between 1974 and 1977, and despite the critical turn in her work toward a consideration of illness — "the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship" — she writes little about this in her journals.
Three years later I was charged with a different and more onerous task: to write the abstract to my first first-author paper.
To be sure, there are already other sites and software with features designed to make writing wills less onerous, like LegalZoom and Quicken WillMaker.
It might seem onerous to your college-bound teenager to spend three hours writing an essay and filling out an application for a $750 scholarship, but if they win the award, that's a whopping $250 for each hour of effort.
If you've ever sat down and tried writing a dictionary, you'll be aware of what an onerous task it is.
