Word: strenuous
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...Some really strenuous, challenging outdoor activity. We would have to be in military marching formation. Dinner would be five live chickens in a potato sack...
...forced to fight an extremely uneven and dirty battle. Milosevic's war against the independent media, which culminated in May with a violent takeover of Belgrade's only independent TV station, left Serbia in complete media darkness. As a result, Kostunica can access the voters only through a strenuous door-to-door campaign. Furthermore, Milosevic doesn't hesitate to use the police to crack down on his opponents, with arrests, kidnappings and beatings becoming a daily occurrence. Despite the dramatic escalation in political violence, Kostunica succeeded in uniting the anti-Milosevic Serbia. Opinion polls demonstrate that he would...
...agency permission to talk to basically everyone who has ever known you, including your mother, your neighbors, your ex and possibly your pets. Let them test your hearing and urine. Read No. 8 under "Minimum Qualifications" on the application checklist: "I am willing and able to engage in strenuous and potentially dangerous duties to include, but not limited to, the use of firearms, participation in raids, arrests and/or the use of defensive tactics...
There's no doubt that creatine can help you build up your biceps. Increasing your energy, it enables you to carry out a longer and more strenuous workout. Normally manufactured by the liver, kidneys and pancreas, it's used by the muscles and other organs as an energy source. Still, there can be too much of a good thing. While creatine is a natural compound, created out of three amino acids, doctors are concerned by reported side effects from apparent overdoses, including dehydration, muscle and ligament tears, diarrhea and kidney failure...
...Despite strenuous objection from Eliot and from alumni, Lowell held to his policies, arguing that his community vision required certain common backgrounds of its members. And though he argued the Houses should represent the University as a whole, he strongly opposed a system along the lines of today's randomization. House choice must absolutely be "voluntary," he asserted, because undergraduates wouldn't feel the same strong allegiance to a House they were forced to join as they would to one that they picked. Without that sense of loyalty, the willingness to partake in a shared life would vanish...