onerous
Example Sentences
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Mueller said that requirement is “not very reasonable,” and that ISPs typically don’t comply due to how onerous it would be.
Lawmakers greatly reduced the number of European companies that would face onerous new reporting requirements by increasing the company-size thresholds at which the rules kick in.
Some of the biggest obstacles facing Germany’s military planners are intangible: ponderous procurement rules, onerous data protection laws, and other regulations forged in a more peaceful era.
As a result, the UN has placed the country under onerous sanctions, making trade highly restrictive.
From BBC
Bank supervisors sometimes treat a bank more gently during its first year of tougher oversight, one person said, as it adjusts to more onerous regulator attention.
From New York Times
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