While Mazzio didn't take home a medal, her years of strenuous, against-all-odds training served her well as an entrepreneur.
In the eighteen-seventies, the American dairy industry was waging a strenuous campaign against margarine, which had just been invented.
Mayor Koch generated more than his share in the late 1980's when he embarked on a strenuous campaign against the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the Democratic primary, then made a series of tactical missteps following the death of Yusuf K. Hawkins, a 16-year-old African-American who was set upon by a crowd of whites in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
[A1.] European Regulators Reject 2 Deals European antitrust regulators took some of their most strenuous action against big corporate mergers, blocking a planned $7 billion purchase by Volvo of the rival Swedish truck maker Scania and forcing three large aluminum companies to withdraw their proposed $17 billion combination.
European antitrust regulators took some of their most strenuous action against big corporate mergers today, blocking a planned $7 billion purchase by Volvo of the rival Swedish truck maker Scania and forcing three large aluminum companies to withdraw their proposed $17 billion combination.
She decided on the latter, despite strenuous arguments against doing so from a threatened George, who had been visiting her on weekends.
Formal dance poses and strenuous balances rub against prosaic positions.
With that, they began 75 minutes of strenuous, synchronized raging against the machine.
In 1994, for instance, Mr. Mitchell, then a Democratic senator from Maine, urged President Bill Clinton — against strenuous British objections — to grant a United States visa to Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader.
Although the Bush administration has long defended the legal protections afforded detainees at Guantánamo against strenuous criticism, some officials now say that moving them to American soil would require giving them enhanced protections.
A new constitution, which Mr Morsi forced through last December against strenuous objections from non-Islamists and legal experts, proved riddled with flaws.In power, Egypt's Islamists took on many of the characteristics of the ruling party that kept them out for so long.
