Nowhere is the wearisome routine more depressing than in Kenya under its current president, Mwai Kibaki.

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Some reforms have been uncontroversial allowing companies to be set up online rather than with a wearisome paper chase, for example.

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But as the South's delegation will no doubt emphasise to their northern counterparts it is a wearisome game that has gone on too long.

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The two camps trade wearisome accusations of enslaving women and murdering babies.

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The finer points of the draft will probably be the subject of wearisome debate by December, as different groups ready themselves for the elections.

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Such labors as the forty-eight hours of preparation that the mission entailed are wearisome enough to get through, let alone describe for a bored boyfriend.

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It was too wearisome.

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