Sentence examples for through punishing from inspiring English sources

Top athletes put their bodies through punishing regimes with long-term consequences as it is.

Heavily armed soldiers are left to trudge, as outsiders in Afghanistan always have, through punishing weather and terrain.

Flipping, tumbling, leaping marvels, they perform one arduous feat after another, putting their brawny bodies through punishing routines that leave their audiences grimacing and shielding their eyes.

He puts himself through punishing early morning fitness sessions with his personal trainer, Wayne Geber, and his wife, Candice Falzon, a professional ironwoman.

We piped scratchy 78-r.p.m. disks of Liberace, Frank Sinatra, and the Andrews Sisters through punishing electronic circuits that turned the hit-parade songs of an earlier era into a din of squeaks, scratches, chirrups, and assaultive feedback.

Dressed like a cross between a superhero and a low-rent burlesque dancer, with her hands made into claws, Ms. Freitas pushed her body through punishing gyrations, goaded by a relentless beat.

As they waited for his divorce to Nancy to come through, she punished him by telling him about a fling with a bullfighter, which drove him nuts.

They believe, "In government that nurtures and encourages its citizens through incentive, rather than putting limits on people through the punishing disincentives of burdensome taxes".

José Manuel turned to his right where, sitting on deck chairs, no fewer than 10 boys watched Reyes put himself through a punishing series of leg exercises.

Still, many homeowners remain resolute, having already resisted through two punishing hurricanes, public shamings — a tactic encouraged by Gov. Chris Christie, who said he had "no sympathy" for their concerns — and a decision by the state's highest court that has encouraged towns to skip the easements and take the needed land by eminent domain.

Officers in the Army, whose tanks dashed hundreds of miles to Baghdad through the punishing Iraqi desert, have spent recent days analyzing how to reorganize their decade-old system of prepositioning large arsenals of armored vehicles in warehouses and aboard ships throughout the region.