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It was harder than usual to move my head or fingers, but not onerously so.

One did not have to rough it too onerously when travelling around the world in this man's company, she thought.

Critics have called this year's campaign onerously dull.

The city, rejecting this condition as onerously bureaucratic because it would require endless filings and paperwork, abandoned its approach.

Such a move dilutes the shares of existing holders and makes an unfriendly takeover onerously expensive.

Until her implants had been replaced by the Caeliar, she had never found 0800 to be an onerously early time of day.

Mr. Toussaint condemned that proposal as onerously high and as treating tomorrow's workers worse than today's.

This is interpreted widely: the restriction will be invalid if it treats an out-of-state resident more onerously than if they were resident within the state.)

Generally racist attitudes in the country have been most onerously applied to Native Americans, African Americans and some "foreign-seeming" action against Mexican immigrants among others.

And if it didn't, that would indicate either a glitch in the line or, more onerously, somebody fiddled with their traffic as they were exchanging it back and forth.

The courts, however, have allowed municipalities to restrict adult businesses through zoning regulations as long as officials demonstrate harmful "secondary impacts" from their presence and do not onerously reduce their accessibility.

Following Augie in his "adventures," we no longer came upon the puny creatures of Bellow's earlier novels who were forever taking their own pulses and dragging themselves onerously from one day to the next.

In his 1996 book Crisis in the Academy, Christopher J. Lucas criticized the accreditation system as too expensive, onerously complicated, incestuous in its organization, and not properly tied to quality.

The female members of the family were soon under siege, and Molly was called on early to "be on deck" for her nervous mother, cleaning, cooking and, most onerously, shepherding a pack of prepubescent boys.

If anything, the domestic sugar lobby, which is quite fearful of Guatemalan competition, is leaning on Washington to make the agreement onerously one-sided by denying Central American exporters full access to our markets.

"A prohibition against any advertising of infant formula - a food and nonprescription product - might easily be seen by critics and patients as onerously paternalistic and perhaps self-serving," that group said in a report.

Instead, he said, these efforts had proved to be onerously expensive and had "come close to causing foreign excursions, subversions and caused us to reconsider whether or not, as a nation, we wish to employ assassination as an expression of policy."

If this extension is eventually made to the line, it would seem most appropriate for regular nonstop service from Surbiton to Wimbledon or Waterloo using the fast lines to be restored so that the journey time from London to Cranleigh would not be onerously long.

For years, Mexican Governments have seen Petroleos Mexicanos S.A. as a cash cow, taxing the state-owned oil monopoly so onerously, and at times plundering it so voraciously, that little of its revenue was left to drill new oil wells or maintain the old ones.

Each of the officers is disillusioned, to varying degrees, that many of the people they're paid to protect are not unlike the suspects they arrest, and that the ridiculous regulations of their department are onerously enforced on them while their commanders (without skills in police work) indulge themselves hypocritically.

Care for Financial System The settlement was also viewed as a statement that the Government did not want to come down too onerously on an enormous and powerful investment house that had long been a valued customer of the Treasury and whose collapse could be catastrophic for the financial system.

To the Editor: Derek Bickerton's review of Gilbert Waldbauer's fine book "Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles" (June 4) includes the statement "Locusts and other types of grasshopper have impinged on our species more onerously than any other insect, barring only plague-bearing lice."