onerousness

onerous | American Dictionary

onerous
adjective
us/ˈɑn·ə·rəs, ˈoʊ·nə-/
causing great difficulty or trouble:
The tax bill was aimed at lifting the onerous tax burden from the backs of the middle class.

Examples of onerous

onerous
The case analysis of a large number of sentences can be an onerous task when performed by hand.
Given the brevity of most office visits, the challenge of detecting and assessing depression in so many polysymptomatic patients can be an onerous task.
However, three elderly female patients found the attention given to their benzodiazepine consumption onerous, and moved to another practice.
In addition, students gave professors customary presents on special occasions; these gifts, which could be quite onerous, were not disguised payments.
The factor income deficit (mainly onerous interests on shortterm credits and to some degree profit remittances) is growing although not alarming so far.
It seemed that the state's highly onerous poll tax dampened voter registration and turnout (see conclusion below).
First, the data requirements for a properly powered or analyzed cost-effectiveness study are even more onerous than an individually randomized trial.
Moreover, land use changes by poorer households were not limited to adopting technically simpler and less onerous practices.
The onerous burden of taking an adaptationist position is not side-stepped by some of the proposed anti-adaptationist suggestions.
However, the new provision may not have been expected to impose an especially onerous burden.
However, in the breeding of high-value, high-quality rice such as aromatic rice the work in selecting for quality is usually onerous.
Thus, the experiment was an onerous test of the hypothesis.
Teaching, in particular, he viewed as an onerous duty.
Of course, it made external debt more onerous over time as it diluted domestic liabilities on paper.
Their labour duties were less onerous than those of crofters, and they were free to offer their labour in the local labour market.
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