But while officials often agree in principle, changing specific regulations is a grueling process.

He spent 39 months recuperating, a grueling process that he has said altered his life and became a touchstone for him as a politician.

This development of the score was a grueling process of many revisions and restarts.

Running for re-election can be a grueling process of distant travel, fund-raising, which prevents representatives from paying attention to governing, according to some critics.

But during most of the grueling process, the students were very serious.

It was a grueling process for the patient and the least effective for delivering mercury to the body.

But in typical Johnson fashion, he jokes about the grueling process.

Design for the building was a grueling process, with several architects and a constantly delayed schedule.

Each November and December, students run for positions at the paper, a grueling process that takes nearly a month.

Steinbrenner was coy, saying only that the grueling process is ongoing.