Sentence examples for strenuous sanctions from inspiring English sources

For a long time, the major powers had hoped that imposing strenuous sanctions on Iran could produce an interlocutor willing to negotiate honestly and to adhere to an exacting arms control agreement.

Small wonder that Mr Assad, after presenting Mr Ryabkov with purported new evidence implicating rebels in chemical attacks, thanked Russia for "creating hope of a new global balance".Russia's sudden objection jarred oddly, considering its strenuous insistence on UN sanction under international law when Barack Obama threatened punitive strikes against Syria.

They were meant to communicate the insight that interrupting the ceaseless round of striving requires a surprisingly strenuous act of will, one that has to be bolstered by habit as well as by social sanction.

The fight was strenuous.

It's strenuous viewing.

It's tremendously strenuous".

Never too strenuous.

It's not strenuous.

Strenuous efforts must continue".

The choreography is strenuous.

It was strenuous work.