Sentence examples for proving arduous from inspiring English sources

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.

It's true that adjusting to 21st century shifts in global power is proving arduous for the United States — much less room for the cynical diplomatic foul — and that there's still a naïve quality to the American game, despite its opening 1-1 drawithth England high in the South African veld and its second-place finish last year in the Confederations Cup.

That proved arduous.

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.

Fight training proves arduous and leaves Stein looking as if he'd "had rough sex with two male lions who lined their den with Brillo pads".

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.