Wolfgang Schauble

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

German Politician

Rhea Perlman

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

American Actress

Jose Angel Gurria

The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.

Mexican Economist

Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

American Author

Martin Cooper

There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.

American Scientist

Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

French Author

Ezra Cornell

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

American Businessman

Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

English Writer

Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

British Statesman

John Williams

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

American Composer

Use 'laborious' for tasks that take a lot of effort over an extended period.

Time Commitment

'Laborious' often implies the work is not only hard but also somewhat dull or tedious.

Negative Nuance

The word 'laborious' highlights the difficulty rather than the importance of the activity.

Emphasis on Difficulty

Use 'laborious' to compliment someone's strong work ethic and perseverance.

Praises Hard Work

'Laborious' often describes students or researchers who work with dedication.

Academic Connotation

'Laborious' has a positive connotation when referring to a person's character.

Admirable Quality

 But his greatness consisted, and historians would roundly agree, in the integrity of his character and the moral fiber of his being. So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized. That ambition that had allowed him to laboriously educate himself by himself,

Doris Kearns Goodwin:...

 set up our base camp and where to put the dining tent and our toilet tents and our shower tents and then also where we're actually going to get our water from this is where all of our water is coming from and it's down inside of but it's a bit laborious trying to get water

A Quick Tour of Base...

 following the path of Ernest Shackleton's earlier attempt to reach the pole. But although this course had been documented, it proved slow and laborious. Meanwhile, despite an initial false start, Amundsen’s five-man team made good time using a previously uncharted route

The dangerous race for...

 The beauty of this research, though, is that no one is suggesting that women have to be thin to be happy. We just have to be thinner than our partners. So instead of all that laborious dieting and exercising, we just need to wait for them to get fat --

What you don't know...

 So in 1998, scientists around the world were furiously sequencing lines of genetic code using the tried and true, yet laborious, Sanger method. Finally, after three exhausting years of continuous sequencing and assembling, the verdict was in.

The race to sequence the...

 that the election system works. They trust that election workers and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs correctly. The ballot boxes go to counting places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted.

David Bismark: E-voting...

 for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings. And I was up in my country house, and for some reason, I began painting these very big, very involved, laborious, complicated maps of the entire world,

Paula Scher: Great...

 was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. Once upon a time, people invested in their memories, in laboriously furnishing their minds. Over the last few millenia, we've invented a series of technologies --

Feats of memory anyone...

 How was that? Frustrating? Slow? What were those sentences about? They're actually a simulation of the experience of dyslexia, designed to make you decode each word. Those with dyslexia experience that laborious pace

What is dyslexia? -...

 How could fonio partake in this market share? There are many challenges in turning fonio into food. Traditional processing is laborious and time-consuming, especially when compared to other grains.