The chancellor faces a gruelling schedule in the coming days.
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What has been the most gruelling operation of your career?
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Gruelling retraining enabled her to resume dancing within a year.
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"It was a gruelling 10 to 12 months," he said.
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That was a different type of gruelling experience: desolate, alien.
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Knockdown is a gruelling battle of body punches and high kicks.
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Despite the gruelling pace, the entire experience was was uniquely satisfying.
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After a gruelling 24 hours UPI is fully restored on PhonePe.
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Basic training was as gruelling as it was in the movies.
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Schwartze put the gyrfalcon on a gruelling four-month exercise program.
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Often they do gruelling manual jobs, such as rice farming or fishing.
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Even more alarmingly, global warming is making an already gruelling climate harsher.
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After a gruelling effort to shed weight, Schumer says she felt awful.
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Levison Wood undertakes the gruelling task of crossing the Himalayas on foot.
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He spent more than 700 gruelling days performing hard labor on meager rations.
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Instead, to maintain returns, it may well be forced into gruelling cost cuts.
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It has meant the world to me over the past few gruelling days.
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The first six months of 2016 have been a gruelling ride for investors.
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His teacher-training courses would subject 400 students at a time to gruelling regimes.
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This little fella had enough of it after a gruelling session of repeating names.
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And most importantly, why does it have to be a gruelling ten minutes long?
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Prior to Simeone's arrival, Atlético spent a gruelling 14 years habitually losing to Real Madrid.
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It's gruelling, exhausting and as far from a Victoria's Secret commercial as you can get.
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Or perhaps you're just way too busy to dedicate yourself to a gruelling political campaign.
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So I thought I would give Lee's gruelling early starts a go, for one week.
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Parents want to spare their offspring the horrors of China's gruelling university-entrance exam, the gaokao.
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A longer, more gruelling battle, Eagle Prime versus Kuratas brought all the strategy to the yard.
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The Test match, the game's five-day format, is the most gruelling challenge in team sport.
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The mass confusion was confirmed by Google Trends on Twitter as the gruelling match played out.
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The coming weeks of gruelling campaigning will show whether Mr Rubio can survive as a candidate.
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It is a gruelling three days for candidates: one exhausted PhD likened it to speed-dating.
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The Refinitiv deal faces a gruelling competition review in Brussels over concentration of financial-data ownership.
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Being forced to fight a gruelling campaign all over again could also win sympathy for Mr Kenyatta.
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Musical rules limit what they can do, and making all those voices sound good together is gruelling.
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But the timing was not ideal: the Italian bank was in the middle of a gruelling restructuring.
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But, as gruelling as marriage can be, she is sure that it is better than the alternative.
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But when it didn't Bush pushed on, even at the price of gruelling and expensive political conflict.
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Then, in spring last year, he went through a gruelling break-up, and the songs started pouring out.
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Those gave brief respite from the gruelling days and nights spent tracking what the Germans were up to.
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I went from $1,000 a week cash to like 250 bucks a week, and it was really gruelling.
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Diaz, a walking expletive, beat Pettis by unanimous decision, dictating a gruelling pace that was beyond his opponent.
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The world number one cited a gruelling tournament schedule and lack of energy as part of the reason.
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First came "Somm", a documentary released in 2012 about four students preparing for the gruelling Master Sommelier (MS) exam.
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But this time the Tories need to make sure they subject all candidates to the most gruelling examination possible.
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While the morning view from city hall's roof is magnificent, the reality of the streets below can be gruelling.
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It's no shock that the Tour de France is one of the most gruelling sporting competitions in the world.
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It has also been gruelling for the players: some spend around nine months a year away from their homes.
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They wear T-shirts, not suits, and can bring in fatter pay-packets than bankers for less gruelling hours.
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Even as sex workers with relative power, demonstrating that we can speak for ourselves is often a gruelling task.
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If life were fair, Citi's bosses would each be given a Martini and a medal for years of gruelling work.
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Fears that his treachery had been detected were confirmed when he was hauled in for gruelling interrogations by KGB goons.
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The stench of corpses along Mosul's streets was a reminder of the gruelling urban warfare required to dislodge Islamic State.
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Held on the winding coastal roads above Copacabana's beaches, each circuit contained a number of gruelling climbs—and treacherous descents.
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Her ascent was not purely a show of grace and favour: she had to complete gruelling training with her men.
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The process of testing out potential mates, and of being tested by them in turn, can be gruelling, bewildering, humiliating.
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While the battle looks ever more likely to be long and gruelling, cementing the peace that follows may be even harder.
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The Revenant's gotten a lot of press for being gruelling on the cast and crew, did those conditions impact your work?
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Matt Damon and Christian Bale have teamed up to take on the most gruelling and prestigious car race in the world.
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Expired statutes of limitation or other legal hurdles prevent some; others do not wish to go through a gruelling public trial.
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More recently, Khan caused an uproar after he said that the felt like a "raped woman" after a gruelling film shoot.
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It had been "gruelling", but she would miss it and struggle to settle back in to her small hometown in England.
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The next leg of the gruelling nine-month contest, which began in Alicante in Spain last October, starts from Cardiff on Sunday.
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He demanded others keep a similarly gruelling schedule, earning him the reputation from friends and foes alike for being stubborn and arrogant.
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He defended its timing amid heavy criticism from the likes of Germany's Zverev for coming at the end of a gruelling season.
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While it's early days here, he suggested it's working well overseas, despite complaints about the gruelling schedules imposed on Counter Strike players.
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Meaning if you like the pain and suffering Hemsworth exhibits in this gruelling montage, you can pay someone to hurt you, too!
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He simply wasn't in the right sort of shape for it, and needed to conserve his energy for the gruelling battle ahead.
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His time there had been gruelling: an endless succession of arguments, proposals, and counterproposals, with painful testimony from victims of both sides.
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His incredible musculature, the result of gruelling training and great athleticism, is something else entirely up- close, in-person, and in action.
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"We were just like slaves," said the child, who described being forced into months of gruelling manual labor by traffickers in Libya.
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Arthur's tale is one that will simualtaneously melt your heart, and make you want to sign up to a gruelling marathon abroad.
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Indeed these gruelling processes, as older comedians remind, do feel necessary; the only way to survive is to know which opportunities are worthwhile.
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I tried to build myself back up from twenty years in harness—New York City, the modern American record industry, gruelling economy touring.
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The journey time from Chengdu to Lhasa is a gruelling three days by road, or more than 40 hours by train through Qinghai.
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And when I saw Siobhan Hewlett's performance in the rushes it was very gruelling and I began to rethink some of my approach.
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The work was gruelling and left him with no time for fun, so he quit and joined his brother importing berries from Mexico.
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At the same time, game delays can extend crunch—a term that describes game developers working gruelling overtime to hit a release date.
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The budget had been tight, and the production was gruelling, with the team's best animators producing just two seconds of film a day.
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Singers who have struggled with the gruelling parts in "Fidelio" and the Ninth Symphony might wish that these lessons had been more effective.
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It was a gruelling contest and most felt like Lauzon's takedowns would seal the deal, but the judges saw Miller as the victor.
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On June 16, 2016, 60 surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists and others came together for the gruelling 56-hour surgery — a first for the Mayo Clinic.
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That has caused grumbling from many managers at top clubs, whose star players have had little time to recover for a gruelling domestic campaign.
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It had been a gruelling battle in front of a partisan home crowd, with the hometown favorite eventually sending the Brazilian crashing to floor.
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Harvesting is gruelling work, says Stewart Lockwood, the director of field operations at Limoneira, as he walks through one of the company's lemon groves.
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After a gruelling session, gym members and athletes can unwind and relax in a communal sauna that can apparently fit up to 40 people.
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Some join gruelling marathons such as the Elfstedentocht, a 200km race between 11 northern towns that leaves skaters with frost-caked brows and bleeding ankles.
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In a profession known for its gruelling schedules, banks around the world are trying to lighten workloads to lower stress levels, especially among junior bankers.
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After a gruelling battle with the elements, the Coxless Crew made history as the first all-female rowing crew to cross the South Pacific Ocean.
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Starting a company can be lonely as well as gruelling, and working in RocketSpace provides you with an instant network and access to good advice.
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Another finalist, Vanessa Fulford, who is a flight test engineer in Cold Lake, Alberta, said her army background prepared her for the gruelling physical testing.
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I meet her right at the end of her gruelling week-long UK press tour, a few hours before she flies back to New York.
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Performing spins, drops and splits to uptempo soul music can at times often feel more like a gruelling military assault course exercise than having fun.
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For Leila, training martial arts on a daily basis is gruelling enough on the body without the added threat of state-mandated capital punishments and penalties.
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In Ghana, the central bank already did some heavy lifting in easing rates over the past five years after a gruelling International Monetary Fund austerity program.
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The chariot scene alone took three months to film, and so gruelling was the shooting schedule that a doctor was hired to administer Vitamin B injections.
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On a particularly gruelling trip across the countryside, he and his mentor, Father Patricio Wade, encountered a destitute family, who nevertheless offered the two men food.
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Her parents drove up from Washington and took their 22-year-old daughter, nursing her newborn, on a gruelling snowy trip from upstate New York to Philadelphia .
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Egypt has even matched Israel's restrictions on the flow of goods and people across Gaza's frontiers, destroying smuggling tunnels and leaving the enclave under a gruelling siege.
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He has never forgotten the look in his father's eyes when he arrived at the compound, along with the whole family, after several days of gruelling travel.
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During five gruelling days of filming, each survivor told his or her story from start to finish, answered every conceivable question and discussed special objects from their past.
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A gruelling month after the streets erupted in protests in 2009, he took to the pulpit to denounce Mr Ahmadinejad for rigging elections to secure a second term.
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In the run-up to what are expected to be gruelling mid-terms for Republicans, Mr Trump's family separations were an effort to dust off a winning script.
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After "such a gruelling social conflict", says Stéphane Sirot, a labour expert at l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise, it would be hard to mobilise members on a large scale.
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Biathlon, a gruelling combination of long-distance skiing and rifle shooting, is one of Russia's most popular winter sports and a symbol of the country's past sporting triumphs.
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Discerning one from the other, amid the pace of a gruelling fight, was incredibly difficult for Wallace's opponents and he could throw up dozens of kicks a round.
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The Tiny Rebel team must've been thankful for their "beer geek" roots — especially given the gruelling development process that went into the creation of their first staple brews.
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Coach Rassie Erasmus chose to stay in New Zealand rather than fly back to South Africa and then embark on another gruelling journey west to Argentina via Brazil.
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In 1999, Bela was named America's first-ever national-team coördinator, tasked with bringing order to a disorganized system, which he did by introducing gruelling monthly training camps.
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The separatists make much of the War of the Spanish Succession, when the victorious Bourbon monarch, Philip V, conquered Barcelona after a gruelling siege and abolished Aragon's feudal "constitutions".
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Some Weibo users have questioned his parental decision to take his son on such a gruelling road trip, but Zhang assured them that his son's health was fine throughout.
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She starts to have sudden fits, which, after a series of gruelling tests, are diagnosed as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures—"a physical reaction to mental suppression," one doctor says.
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Islamic State's self-declared "caliphate" effectively collapsed in July, when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces captured Mosul, the group's de facto capital in Iraq, after a gruelling nine-month battle.
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Her finishing time of four minutes, 26.36 seconds, in a gruelling event where swimmers complete successive legs in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, sliced 2.07 seconds off the record.
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The journey was gruelling, she said, but sometimes surprisingly companionable: people occasionally appeared amid the reeds in the countryside and asked if they could join her in the water.
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Yoel Romero is never a high volume fighter but coming into this bout on the heels of a gruelling weight cut, the Cuban's attempts to conserve himself were especially apparent.
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As long as admission to senior-high schools is based on results from the gruelling zhongkao exam, parents are likely to exploit every loophole to give their children an edge.
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In the course of two weeks of gruelling knock-out play, several thousand players are whittled down to just two, playing "heads-up" for one of the WSOP's coveted bracelets.
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Writing on Weibo, a Chinese social-media site, Ms Pu says doctors were worried that they would not have enough blood to support her through a gruelling bone-marrow transplant.
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Despite ubiquitous headlines about unicorn valuations and how it's never been easier to raise money in Silicon Valley, the process of raising capital can be gruelling, unpredictable, and non-transparent.
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Why is it that when old couples announce how long they have been married people always clap, as if the pair had completed a particularly gruelling race or survived cancer?
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Similarly, presenters should be reminded that it takes years of gruelling training and a huge amount of dedication to compete in the Olympics — it has nothing to do with luck.
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The children described working gruelling, 12-hour shifts in the extreme heat or in the rain, often for no more than 1,000 to 2,000 Congolese Francs ($1-$2) per day.
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Creating a 27,22016-square-mile (298,1003 square kilometres) digital map that defined land use - water, vegetation or concrete - at such a fine scale was "gruelling", said project director Jeff Allenby.
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The gruelling, 39-day poll began in the wake of aerial clashes and escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan, which Modi's ruling BJP used to focus its campaign on national security.
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After resting Mr Leonard regularly during the NBA's gruelling 82-game regular season to maintain his energy and reduce his risk of injury, the Raptors turned him loose in the playoffs.
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Many parents turn to one perfectly distracting weapon of choice on long haul journeys — the tablet, oftentimes the iPad, which can be a lifesaver when it comes to those gruelling flights.
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So in 28503, we embarked first on six months of secret talks in Havana to lay out the playing field with a framework agreement, followed by four years of gruelling negotiations.
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Every year, millions of students take the Gaokao— one of China's most gruelling and difficult exams Chinese users on Weibo, a social media platform, were pretty smug about the machine's loss.
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A study by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said migrants faced gruelling hours and risky conditions, and were forced to handle machinery, chemicals and other dangerous materials without proper training.
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After struggling with nerves in her gruelling first-round match, Osaka was calm and collected on Louis Armstrong Stadium court, smacking 13 winners and playing stout defence to dispatch Poland's Linette.
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The April slot is a much better fit than the men's Davis Cup which was played with 18 nations and crammed into a week in November, including gruelling late-night finishes.
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While no amount of money will undo what these women have endured for months and years, this is a massive win following a gruelling case that's lasted more than three years.
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The first mountain stage will be contested on Friday, which could reshuffle the overall standings as Yates, Nibali and Lopez are expected to attack during the most gruelling part of the race.
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The median age of the private-fleet driver is 52; many younger would-be drivers refuse to take on a job with a gruelling, erratic schedule and long stretches away from home.
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LONDON — A goat has secured a sought-after role in the British Army after a gruelling selection process led to him being appointed to a key position in the Royal Welsh Regiment.
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After all, if Wes Morgan can captain his club to glory over 38 gruelling games in one of Europe's toughest leagues, what's to stop Tom Heaton or Darren Fletcher doing the same?
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For people who come from the countryside to make money in Phnom Penh, they offer a less gruelling alternative to factory work - but earning a decent salary can have its own risks.
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Perkins, who was 24 years old at the time, said the negotiations that led up to the non-disclosure agreement involved gruelling meetings with lawyers including one that lasted from 5 p.m.
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Islamic State's self-declared cross-border caliphate effectively collapsed in July, when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces captured Mosul, the group's de facto capital in Iraq, in a gruelling battle which lasted nine months.
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Born in 1905 to a Jewish family in Berdichev, now in Ukraine, Grossman (pictured) had entered the camp after gruelling front-line service as a Soviet war correspondent for the Red Army's newspaper.
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Streep was courtside at the gruelling U.S. Open final between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro on Sunday, which inevitably meant the camera was going to fall on her at some point.
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The Sydney Morning Herald said in an article "Leicester City's Premier League win much more than a miracle" that the gruelling, "miracle-proof" league schedule makes the team's victory all the more impressive.
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In March 2018, Nick Griffiths, a former royal marine, lost several of his toes to frostbite during the gruelling Yukon Arctic Ultramarathon, and he generously agreed to donate them to the Dawson Hotel.
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As the gruelling battle progressed, both fighters played dirty with low blows and aggressive tactics, but Hatton's pressure, heart and sickening body blows were beginning to take their toll on the ageing champion.
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Henrique Taps Colombo in Gruelling Fight The first televised bout of the night occurred in the heavyweight division, as 23-year-old Brazilian grappling specialist Luis Henrique took on Danish striker Christian Colombo.
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Vekic, ranked 58th in the world, beat Konta in the final of last month's WTA tournament in Nottingham and the pair embraced at the end of a gruelling contest in the afternoon heat.
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You can beat procrastination, start a new habit, learn a new language, make it through challenges and physically gruelling events, explore new things, speak on a stage, and even embrace the minimalist lifestyle.
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Revered among extreme endurance athletes for its cold-water swim, punishing cycling climbs and gruelling mountain-top finish, the Norseman attracts thousands of entries every year, but only 291 made it to the start.
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The diplomats have gained trust from Kim since the failed summit, but the final decision maker remains Kim Jong Un, who has shunned gruelling working-level talks in favor of dealing directly with Trump.
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The planet's only non-stop solo round-the-world sailing race—known as the "Everest of the seas"—can take months to complete, and is considered a gruelling test of mental and physical endurance.
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After enduring six months of gruelling travel from Afghanistan through Iran, Turkey and Bulgaria, Khaled made it as far as Serbia before the European Union closed its borders and he ran out of money.
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Logic brought out Yachty during his recent Atlanta tour stop, but rather than have him perform a song, he challenged him to a gruelling round of Mario Kart 8, which you can watch above.
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Decking the halls and trimming the tree can often be a gruelling all-day affair, but YouTube's the Hacksmith has come up with a time-saving solution in the form of a yuletide cannon.
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Against a better infighter Duran could hit them on the way in and immediately tie up to avoid a gruelling exchange, step out of range or allow the opponent to step out of range.
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In the story she tells about the world, she and her fellow white people have all the power, and therefore all the responsibility to do the gruelling but transformative spiritual work she calls for.
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It's a stark change for founders who are normally ushered into intimidating, gleaming London headquarters for the major funds and have to go through the gruelling process of pitching to a panel of investors.
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For some Park Service people, Death Valley can be a gruelling assignment: high schools and shopping are an hour or more away, and for serious medical needs you have to go to Las Vegas.
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After high school, he got a job at a plant that built frames for trucks—the most gruelling labor he has ever done, he says—and then another on an assembly line for Ford.
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After 22 gruelling minutes, Kawajiri won a unanimous decision against a game Birchak—the former's first win under the Rizin banner since deciding to up sticks and move from the UFC back to his homeland.
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The Olympic program usually saves this most gruelling of races for last and because of the huge demands it places on the endurance of athletes it has previously been dogged by allegations of blood doping.
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A gruelling December schedule saw the average number of new injuries peak at more than 19 per week, the study found Defenders were the most likely to get injured with 164 cases reported so far.
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In painful detail, Khaled describes how the air raids on Aleppo ruined the city and killed his family; only he and his sister survived, but he lost her on the long and gruelling flight to Europe.
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Not only is the recovery period long and gruelling, but there is no light at the end of the tunnel: when players do return at last, they are often merely a shadow of their former selves.
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A UFC debutant earned a $50,000 performance bonus after winning a fight so gruelling it left his opponent with a probable broken jaw and an ear so swollen it looked like it was about to burst.
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"If I go there to enjoy the experience, yes," he said when asked if he felt ready for one of the most gruelling races in motorsport, to be staged for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
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Peugeot, who are pulling out of the South American event after this year, will now be hoping 2010 Dakar winner and two-times world rally champion Sainz keeps out of trouble in motorsport's most gruelling endurance test.
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" In May, downtown Wilberforce will be the starting point for the "Amazing Nursery Rhyme Race" event cache, which will see participants travel all over the municipality to complete "a gruelling adventure through the world of nursery rhymes.
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There are no plans at the moment for VR headsets or other head-based wearables because so far they have proven to be too bulky to be usable in the physical environment of sometimes-gruelling cycling, Min said.
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The WBSS is one of the most gruelling and competitive tournaments in all combat sports and it does one amazing thing — bring contenders and champions together from one division, force them to fight, and anoint one clear ruler.
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GAP, France (Reuters) - After a couple of quiet days in the heat, the Tour de France enters its decisive phase with three successive gruelling Alpine stages, where the much-anticipated French v Ineos battle will finally be settled.
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Nick Johnston: I had a series of mental breakdowns at the end of two years touring our debut album You and I. The last six months throughout USA in 2009 were particularly gruelling and I was worn out.
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"Investment banks have traditionally been the most generous with salaries to attract entry level talent, putting candidates through their paces in often gruelling interview processes," Amanda Stansell, economic research analyst at Glassdoor, said in a press release Wednesday.
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But Zidane said he is not concerned about the potential knock-on effects of Ramos playing two major international tournaments after another gruelling campaign with Real, who hope to challenge for the Spanish title and the Champions League.
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The 33-year-old journalist blew kisses to the crowd as he walked final kilometre of the gruelling test of endurance before completing the course in three hours 40.58 minutes to win his first medal in his fourth Games.
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As India's gruelling election marathon reached its seventh and final round of voting, leaving a break before the final tally on May 23rd, its prime minister headed instead to a hermit's cave at the foot of a Himalayan glacier.
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By the time his Wheaties box hit the shelves of American supermarkets in early 2015, Pettis had already lost his lightweight championship to Rafael dos Anjos in a gruelling five-round smothering on the feet and on the ground.
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He defied his 25 years over four hours 26 minutes of gruelling combat, teaming up with Harrison for a 215-63 26-23(20) 1-6 6-7(5) 7-33(5) victory over Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic.
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He paved the way for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , of Turkey, to invade Syria, abandoning America's Kurdish partners in the Syrian Democratic Forces, who had eliminated the Islamic State 's caliphate in March, after five years of gruelling warfare.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Nick Kyrgios can become the best tennis player in the world without gruelling trips to the gym and endless hours of practice — providing he keeps playing doubles, former world number one Mats Wilander told Reuters on Thursday.
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She lost out to Tory candidate John Stevenson in the nearby constituency of Carlisle at the 2015 election, but her supporters claim that she is "battle ready" to stand in what will be a closely-fought, gruelling by-election.
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If you follow any journalists on Twitter, you may know that it's considered one of the most gruelling stretches of work in the entire year, but it's also pretty fun (the less thorny of us will admit to that begrudgingly).
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The house, a former revenue-guard barracks, is an initial reception centre for Italy's unnoticed migrants: the thousands who enter the country by slipping across the heavily wooded nearby frontier after a gruelling journey from Asia that sometimes takes years.
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"Beyond the lower costs, it made my life less complicated," said Rinco, relieved at no longer having the gruelling task of hiring suitable pickers every year for the harvest at his farm in the Sao Joao da Boa Vista area.
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Ascending two or three stories on the Vycle doesn't seem like it would be anywhere near as gruelling as taking the stairs, but we'd hate to have to rely on this if we worked on the 30th floor of a skyscraper.
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The most radical online feature, however, is the ability to start a quest by yourself and send an SOS flare for help if you're having trouble, which could be a godsend if you're half an hour into a gruelling battle.
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But the determined Canadian, who was the longest driver in the tournament, captured the imagination of many onlookers as he advanced through each gruelling round and into the final where he was thought to have no chance against sweet-swinging Egan.
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The notion of a woman winning gold just months after becoming a mother is pitched as a fascinating story – like putting away 1,000 chicken McNuggets in Beijing – but not a technical feat in which an athlete conquers a gruelling physical challenge.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gruelling revenge movie "The Revenant" emerged as the Oscar front-runner on Thursday in nominations that pit big-budget movies against small personal dramas and once again shut actors of colour out of the industry's biggest honours.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova ground out a gruelling 103-7(3) 6-4 11-9 win against Elise Mertens on Friday to move into the fourth round of the French Open, her best ever showing at the claycourt major.
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"(Alex) needed to believe in the future, he needed something that would distract him from the gruelling treatment that he had to go through," said Anita Morris, a psychologist who founded Hack Back seven years ago in the north of England.
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They considered casting an actor with intellectual disabilities, but the film had to be emotionally and physically gruelling, and they worried that they wouldn't be able to get the performance they wanted without subjecting the actor to real-life stress.
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After finishing second in 2009 and 2013, Le Cleac'h, aboard his 60-foot yacht Banque Populaire, won in a record time of 74 days, three hours, 35 minutes and 103 seconds to become the eighth Frenchman to win the gruelling race.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich overcame extreme heat and humidity to win the world championship midnight marathon on Friday, in a gruelling test of survival that saw nearly a third of the 70 starters fail to reach the finish line.
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In exchange for learning the Knowledge, a gruelling feat requiring them to remember 25,000 roads and 100,000 landmarks, they earn perks such as the right to pick people up off the street (whereas minicabs must be booked) and to drive in bus lanes.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The United States will have a gruelling schedule ahead of the women's World Cup in France next year in order to be battle-ready for their bid to clinch a record fourth crown, head coach Jill Ellis said on Saturday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian long jumper Darya Klishina wants to focus on the Olympics after a "few gruelling days" ended in her ban from the Games being overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the eve of her event.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Britain's Andy Murray beat Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 in a compelling and gruelling Olympic tennis final on Sunday to become the first player to successfully defend the title.
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After a gruelling run to Wembley that included games against Blackburn, Aston Villa and Newcastle – as well as a slightly less glamorous two-legged semi-final against Wycombe Wanderers – his mature and canny Chelsea side came up against a callow Arsenal 11.
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He had always loved the kitchen because it was a tribe, and in jujitsu he had found another sweaty, gruelling activity with its own hierarchy and lingo, a vocabulary of signs and symbols that would be impossible for an outsider to understand.
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After gruelling five-setters in his first two rounds, the second seed gave a masterclass in nullifying the game's biggest serve, breaking twice in succession at the start of the match to set up a 6-4 6-4 7-6(3) victory.
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Even when the miles seem gruelling, try to focus on pleasant memories, beam and say hello to people as you run past, grin at cameras on the sidelines, or even a small smile to yourself when you complete each mile will work too.
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By the time the Lions of 113 play their final fixture on July 8th, they will have completed a gruelling schedule of ten matches in 36 days—including three against the "All Blacks", the reigning world champions and the greatest rugby side of all time.
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Dimitrov, who is bidding to reach his third final of the year, was two points away from defeat against sixth seed Lucas Pouille but fought back for a gruelling 6(3)-7 7-6(0) 6-4 victory in two hours and 26 minutes.
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Federer even had an opportunity to take the trophy himself, but failed to convert a winning point when he needed it most, instead surrendering the moment to Djokovic, who won 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 4-6, 13-12 after five gruelling hours.
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MADRID (Reuters) - It has been a long and gruelling week at the inaugural Davis Cup Finals but Rafael Nadal once again proved that when it comes to staying power and resilience he is peerless as he dragged Spain past Britain into the final on Saturday.
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Doctors said that he would never speak or walk again, but Paul's brother, then a medical student, designed a gruelling rehabilitation regimen: Pedro had to crawl around on kneepads until he could walk, and to practice scooping up coins until he had learned to feed himself.
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Dos Anjos soon announced he was to abandon the lightweight division to seek pastures new at welterweight's limit of 170lbs, claiming he passed just three minutes before heading out to fight Alvarez in his ill-fated title defence thanks to the effects of a gruelling weight cut.
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" Speaking at a joint press conference alongside his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, the prime minister said: "Knowing the gruelling nature of the primaries, what you have to go through to go on and represent your party in a general election – anyone who makes it through that deserves our respect.
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After one particularly gruelling track known as "Vodka" (the girl next to me says, "Oh god you don't know what you're in for!" while grinning), which centers around incredibly fast bouncing for long periods of time, followed by shorter periods of rest, I thought I was going to drop to the floor.
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While Poisson will not be far from skiers' thoughts this weekend, competitors will switch into race mode on Saturday and focus on the challenge ahead — a gruelling World Cup ski campaign which this year will include the added tension of securing spots on the start lists at the February's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Finland's Iivo Niskanen made a lung-busting early break for victory and held off a furious challenge from Alexander Bolshunov to take the gold medal in a gruelling 50km mass start classic cross-country ski race, Finland's first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Games, on Saturday.
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A 2013 research paper on women's access to justice in Pakistan showed that very often the judicial focus was not on the actions of the rapist, but on the behavior and even sexual history of the victim -- not to mention the gruelling and demeaning cross-examination of victims at the hands of defence lawyers.
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Bounding energetically to the press-conference lectern after two gruelling days of talks over the terms of Britain's EU membership, Mr Cameron opened his post-summit remarks not by trumpeting the emergency brake on euro-zone integration he had just secured, nor by crowing over his success in denying benefits to EU migrant workers.
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At a 2012 post-fight press conference after Dereck Chisora had just absorbed 211 punches from a bigger and taller Vitali Klitschko in a gruelling world heavyweight title fight, the Londoner stepped toward David Haye, who was in the crowd at the time, and brawled with his rival in front of the world's media.
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Though never widely adored, Mrs Clinton has tended to thrive in adversity—as in the humiliating aftermath of the Monica Lewinsky revelations, when her approval rating touched 66%, and towards the end of her gruelling defeat by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, when she was said to have relaxed and improved her performance on the stump.
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Herzog has made a career directing gruelling films, both in their subject matter, and their production — the infamous shoot for Fitzcarraldo involved lugging an entire steamship over a mountain in the stifling jungles of South America, saw its leading actor come down with dysentry, and was nearly derailed countless times by the wild rages of longtime Herzog collaborator Klaus Kinski.
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"A lot of people who are qualified to be astronauts don't realise it," Ms Schierholz says, explaining that the only requirements are a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering or maths, three or more years of related work experience or study (or 1,000 hours as a jet pilot, which it is easy to imagine might come in handy) and the capacity to pass a gruelling physical.
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A favourite story among Blue Jays fans involves much younger teammates in his later years with the club—eager in spring to soak up as much of Doc's greatness as possible by trying to keep up with his gruelling and impossibly early starting workout regimen, they dropped off one by one until it was only the veteran ace left running up and down the stadium stairs each day before dawn.
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As Erik Killmonger in "Black Panther," Jordan added 15 pounds of muscle via a gruelling training regime with celebrity trainer Corey Calliet, who also helped Jordan get in shape for "Creed" and "Creed II."During pre-production for "Black Panther," the two worked out six days a week and Jordan ate six meals a day to secure the incredible physique he displays in Marvel&aposs billion-dollar hit.
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