Sentence examples for strenuous tasks from inspiring English sources

Heart attacks and rhythm disturbances have killed athletes during play and elderly people engaged in strenuous tasks like shoveling snow.

These day workers performed hugely strenuous tasks — cleaning floors and windows by hand, washing many loads of laundry — and were typically paid very little for their labors.

In the delta older women in long black robes, younger ones in more colourful cottons, and children over age 6 help with the less strenuous tasks.

Down the hall, Mr. Eidelberg writes, men would "prepare the clay, grind the glazes, stoke the kiln and perform the other requisite, strenuous tasks forbidden to the women".

Women made baskets and pottery, gardened, raised children, cared for the elderly, and were responsible for the strenuous tasks of providing their families with hand-drawn water and hand-ground cornmeal.

Here, Mr. Rogers and his collaborator Madeline Best will spend several hours before curtain time drinking heavily and executing strenuous tasks, including exercise, so that by the time the audience arrives, they are drunk and exhausted.

Additionally, addressing sexual abuse is a strenuous task because its keystone, as Mr. Crocquet wrote in his introduction, is secrecy.

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Obtaining optimal power flow solution is a strenuous task for any power system engineer.

Drilling overhead into concrete or metal ceilings is a strenuous task done by construction workers to hang ductwork, piping, and electrical equipment.

Nevertheless, such great potential comes at a price of self-interference, since it is a strenuous task to isolate transmit and received powers [10, 11].