Person-related characteristics, such as over-commitment, strenuous effort at work and low self-efficacy, have also been associated with poor health perception and sick-leave [ 11, 12].
As an image of marital commitment, this strenuous sculling-to-nowhere is as bleak as it gets.
What spark is needed to engender a commitment to a strenuous international learning process with an ambitious goal and unclear outcomes?
Of course there's a chipper version of Woody Guthrie's "Happy Joyous Hanukkah" on "Holly Happy Days," the first, um, seasonal album by the Indigo Girls, who in their commitment to equality of all forms, were strenuous in their inclusion of all sorts of winter styles.
Nor would such an alteration truly move beyond moral evaluation; for such strenuous attempts at objectivity are themselves motivated by a moral commitment to the ideal of objectivity.
For some, personal experience of being a service user has motivated them; for others, a deeply held commitment to social justice drives them towards a challenging and often strenuous career.
This document is a draft of a summary report outlining Streicher's strenuous and vitriolic anti-Semitism from 1919, before he even joined the Nazi Party, to his ejection from the NSDAP and commitment to house arrest in 1940.
His doubts that "the commitment of most Americans to the spreading of freedom and democracy abroad [was] deep enough to sustain strenuous and costly foreign policy enterprises" lead him to dismiss missionary ideology as a sole causative factor (p. 21).
