It's an endurance test, an endless stream of delays and discomforts with little resolution in sight.

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For Australian sports fans, watching his ride to victory has been something of an endurance test in itself.

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First comes the dressage, then the cross-country endurance test - the most dramatic part of the event - and finally the showjumping.

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Functional heads are frequently pitted against one another in a sort of psychic and physical endurance test to see who gets promoted.

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This 2-hour-and-47-minute endurance test of a movie plays like people making the best of an assignment rather than operating out of genuine passion.

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In an endurance test of the vehicle's computers, sensors and mechanical systems, Sandstorm drove 131 laps on a race course near Pittsburgh, covering the distance in seven hours.

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"It's going to be a test of endurance both physically and mentally, " added Catharine.

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NOME, Alaska (AP) A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.

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"The country will once again test its endurance limits, as going back to the polls is unavoidable, " the daily Kathimerini newspaper said Wednesday, as the date for a new election was announced.

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The high-stress, high visibility papal position will certainly be a test of his endurance.

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It is seen as a test of human endurance.

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He had even made it through Ranger school, the Army's toughest test of strength and endurance.

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Onions has raw, skiddy pace and plenty of endurance but only time will tell whether he can take over 200 Test wickets like his Durham team-mate has.

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The new test is the latest weapon in WADA's arsenal following the development of tests for the endurance-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO) and so-called designer steroids such as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which have been chemically engineered to deceive the testers.

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