Sentence examples for pretty onerous from inspiring English sources
"The alternative was pretty onerous," he said.
That's still pretty onerous, which helps to explain why sanctions are needed, too.
When I suggested that this sounded pretty onerous, she doubled down: "It's going to require more than you're bargaining for.
"If you're in courses that have nothing but exams, that can get pretty onerous right before midterms," Mr. Thompson says.
In general, the loan-to-value restrictions are "pretty onerous," requiring 20 to 30 percent down, said Mark Yecies, an owner of SunQuest Funding in Cranford, N.J.
"It's been a pretty onerous tax on small and medium-sized businesses," said Talmadge Heflin, the director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative research and outreach organization.
Sex discrimination suits are not uncommon -- and would probably be more common if not for onerous contracts employees must sign pretty much giving up their right to sue their employers, as Sherry points out.
All of this sounds pretty unfair, but apparently not unfair enough for the Supreme Court, which has now made the arbitration process even more onerous.
One of Novak's projects, Mailpile, is a crowd-funded e-mail application with built-in security tools that are normally too onerous for average people to set up and use — namely, Phil Zimmermann's revolutionary but never widely adopted Pretty Good Privacy.
Nothing particularly onerous there.
