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Example sentences for: onerous

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Cumbersome ethics rules have made simply accepting a nomination onerous: Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala had to pay accountants $20,000 just to complete her financial disclosure forms.
New phone technology allows them to do this from their own houses with assembly-line efficiency and relieves them of the onerous chore of actually meeting the candidates.
Various devices such as bonuses and stock options enable companies to reasonably assure themselves of the continuing employment of key executives without violating the 13 th Amendment's onerous ban on what should more accurately be called "contracts of permanent employment."
He says regulation only gets more onerous over time.
After all, even this architectural utopia has turned out to have its downsides: onerous zoning and architectural restrictions, rules about what you can and cannot do with your garden, a general atmosphere of community-mindedness that can grate on a soul, if that soul (like Truman) starts to develop a live-free-or-die approach to things.