To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. From LearnThat.org. [Winston Churchill (1874-1965)]
These buildings have been almost entirely erected by the soldiers, who are compelled to work from morning till night at every kind of laborious employment. From Wordnik.com. [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference
A lot of work too, and puts my 'laborious' breakfast routine into perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
The organisation called it a "laborious" task to add or remove a car from a list on the system and said some cars disappear altogether. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Rice County Sheriff Richard Cook says the search has been "laborious" as rescuers fight a strong current and near-freezing water temperatures. From Wordnik.com. [Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV] Reference
"laborious" process of ensuring every grave was properly identified. From Wordnik.com. [KVIA.com - Local News] Reference
Sometimes he would go on, after a pause, in a kind of laborious elucidation: "Na, na!. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
"laborious," this movie did keep most involved and intrigued as to what would happen next. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
Today replacing a satellite is a laborious process. From Wordnik.com. [Plug-and-Play Satellites] Reference
Thus his progress was exceedingly slow and laborious. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Right now, it is a laborious process to detect these markers. From Wordnik.com. [An Alzheimer's Fingerprint?] Reference
And the laborious distribution of the portfolios began again. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Like much of his work, the process itself is laborious but simple. From Wordnik.com. [Ethan Murrow: Big Wall, Slow Pace. The New Work of Joe Biel.] Reference
Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Vehicle tread wear testing is time consuming, laborious, and expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Tires: Bittersweet ending to this year’s tread life testing] Reference
"It's very laborious, very detailed," said Malecki, and may take up to six weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Original Magna Carta and replica get a cleaning] Reference
A lot of nervous brushwork and laborious texture add up to little more than filler. From Wordnik.com. [Expressionism Italian Style] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) KATE: No, the meetings are long and laborious and grueling. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Seniors Grow Old At Home, Safely] Reference
This may sound laborious, but the process is actually quite speedy and entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [High-Scoring Game] Reference
The laborious, expensive “Pinocchio” (1939), arguably his best film, had lost money. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoon Rembrandt, Homespun Fascist or Both?] Reference
The world's cocoa supply is grown mostly by small farmers because the process is so laborious. From Wordnik.com. [With DNA of chocolate nearly decoded by scientists, could sweeter treats await?] Reference
Our expert tips will help ensure a perfect paint job, and make this Labor Day chore less laborious. From Wordnik.com. [Spend your Labor Day weekend watching paint dry] Reference
It was laborious, '' says Yang, who dislikes the text-based interface that governs most of the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [A (Free And) Easy Guide To The Web] Reference
For now, the campaign will let public interest build through the laborious mechanics of petition drives. From Wordnik.com. [Perot's Patriot Games] Reference
He will begin by presenting the portrait of the honest, laborious, exact, scrupulous clerk, content with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In a world of expedited travel, getting a visa to enter the United States has become a laborious process. From Wordnik.com. [America the Unwelcoming] Reference
The fake FEMA press conference simply swapped a laborious, outmoded kind of theater for a quick, efficient one. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Fake News] Reference
Writing was, for the hand otherwise capable, a laborious task; but no help would she have from either of her sons. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
If the Internet is such a boon, why is sifting through all the information it brings to our fingertips so laborious?. From Wordnik.com. [Like A Super Hero] Reference
Wheat being scarce in this region, corn as a substitute had to be converted into meal by the same laborious process. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was part of Mr. Kail's laborious research into the life of Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers. From Wordnik.com. [A Playbook of a Legend's Life] Reference
But in so rambling a writer it has not seemed to me that the laborious transpositions of later German editors were important. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
The current vaccine candidate will be produced in chicken eggs -- a laborious process that has changed little since the 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [BIRD-FLU CHALLENGE] Reference
Tom could hear the rapid puffing of the engine as the wheels slipped on the wet rails; then the puffing became more laborious. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
This was begun with alacrity at four different points, officers and men vieing with one another in the laborious work of destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Not a moment of leisure, no rest, no recreation, but hard labor, and the still more laborious religious exercises, filled up the time. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The laborious processes for provisioning LUNs and increasing capacity are greatly simplified -- even automated -- through virtualization. From Wordnik.com. [The InfoWorld SAN and NAS virtualization primer] Reference
The military had five months to map and plot targets; other conflicts might not provide that luxury of time for the laborious software work. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of A Missile] Reference
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