heavy lifting

Worse, PREA uses the blunt instrument of federal funding to try to force states to do the heavy lifting of reform.

To be sure, Solarz was no stranger to controversy or heavy lifting.

Hannah Ware and Stuart Townsend manage to capture some heat together, but ultimately Betrayal feels like heavy lifting.

Lots of exercise, sprinting up and down driveways, heavy lifting.

The Saudi ambassador to Washington at the time, Prince Bandar, provided the heavy lifting.

It must not be supposed that, although the engine did all the heavy lifting, the men had merely to stand by and look on.

With some hard work and heavy lifting I got another good deadfall built that day.

This pleased Freddie and Flossie, and soon they were helping their mother, one of the sailors doing the heavy lifting.

The logs were so large that a day or more of burning and heavy lifting would be required to break through them.

The note underneath is "good response to therapy, has been doing much heavy lifting."