Climbing out of bed wasn't even an ordeal, just difficult.

Everyone is aware that the Chancellor has a difficult ordeal to face a few hours later and no one wants to make the occasion even worse.

Recording a very difficult period of time, showing the difficult ordeal and divine purification for Mujaheddin (fighters).

It's impossible to adequately describe how we lived through this difficult ordeal.

The last few years have been a difficult and strenuous ordeal.

Making a decision may be a tiring, difficult ordeal, but once you make up your mind, something miraculous happens.

Could others learn to manipulate their biochemical processes, and would they require a similarly difficult ordeal to do so?

This has been a long and difficult ordeal for myself and my family.

Ziegler, in his 15th year as league president, successfully completed his most difficult ordeal.

Bunch braced herself to endure what, she felt, might be rather a difficult ordeal.