- Demanding former thespian career
- Enforcing (payment)
- Former spouse on stage is quite demanding
- Laborious
- Making great demands on
- Making rigorous or excessive demands
- Physically demanding
- Backbreaking
- Debar duo - usual inclusion is difficult
- Debar duo – usual inclusion difficult to accomplish
- Difficult to accomplish
- Difficult to achieve
- Hard to climb
- Laborious
- Contend
- Contest for control
- Ongoing fight
- strenuous effort
- Strenuous exertion or effort
- Strive
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or
with contortions of the body.