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Kemp Battle recalled the rigors of college life at a time when he and his classmates were required to "attend prayers long before sunrise" and assemble for Sunday worship "even in bitter cold without fires."

Student Life and Learning James L. Leloudis 2004

As he did the push-ups that had helped him restore the use of his injured right arm, he recalled the rigors of OCS at Quantico, Virginia, and a burly gunnery sergeant who had systematically harassed, bullied, and eventually trained the officer candidates in his platoon.

Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

Sickeningly, he uses the word "rigors," in the passage above as if the Africans, my ancestors, branded and shackled to each other, naked and piled on top of each other, up to 400 to a cargo hold, were subjected to something "rigorous."

Trey Ellis: Michael Medved Makes Me Sad 2008

Perhaps, the six deer couldn't bear the rigors which is unfortunate.

The Times of India 2010

In a plaintive footnote, the complaint reveals that although Speaker and his fiancée exchanged vows in Greece, the marriage never was recognized officially because, beset by the "rigors" of Speaker's quarantine and "public vilification," the couple separated before the marriage license could be filed.

Law.com - Newswire 2009

By then many Americans had subscribed to the philosophies of the Founding Fathers and had devoted themselves to the rigors of democratic life.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

If that was true then, his subsequent comments about the rigors of the road -- particularly when the wheels start grinding to a halt -- seem more prescient now.

Michael Bialas: As the Wheels Turn: The Drive-By Truckers Will Take You for a Ride Michael Bialas 2011

Translation: any employee who may be bargaining for fair wages so that he/she may not have to put his/her family through the rigors of governmental aide in the first place, will likely think twice before taking such action now for fear of watching a child starve.

Rev. Al Sharpton: The Politicization of Child Hunger Rev. Al Sharpton 2011

Translation: any employee who may be bargaining for fair wages so that he/she may not have to put his/her family through the rigors of governmental aide in the first place, will likely think twice before taking such action now for fear of watching a child starve.

Rev. Al Sharpton: The Politicization of Child Hunger Rev. Al Sharpton 2011

If that was true then, his subsequent comments about the rigors of the road -- particularly when the wheels start grinding to a halt -- seem more prescient now.

Michael Bialas: As the Wheels Turn: The Drive-By Truckers Will Take You for a Ride Michael Bialas 2011