Carrying the stretcher proved arduous.
But for the companies, dealing with Indians has proved arduous.
But even with income from the handful of tenants, meeting the mortgage payments proved arduous.
This is also several years later than planned (moving 330,000 people to make way for the project has proved arduous).
Finding the item, she said, had proved arduous, with many store owners refusing to admit they had masks in stock.
The survey proved arduous; civil and foreign war so hampered the operation that it was not completed for six years.
No wonder President Barack Obama skipped an E.U.-U.S. meeting, and even coming up with an agenda for a planned November summit is proving arduous.
A report last March by Xinhua, the state news agency, had predicted a May publication date, but vetting procedures have proved arduous, and Mr. Huang said a December release was now more likely.
She was judged liable by a California court for millions of dollars she had siphoned from Cohen's estate, and ordered to pay him $9.5m (about £5.4m), but recovering the money proved arduous.
