We'll work hard, slog.

I'd sooner stay here than slog up there!

It is a quiet, painstaking slog behind the scenes.

That means that there are no private markets for SDRs, and creating such markets would be a long, hard slog.

Some argue that Greece s real GDP would be much lower in an exit scenario than it would be during the hard slog of deflation.

It was also a realpolitik acknowledgement of the setbacks to be expected along the way (the slog, as then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it).

In reality, everyone is gearing up behind the scenes for a Copenhagen 2, and what those involved in the negotiations are calling an even greater slog.

WASHINGTON, DC In its decade long slog to secure Afghanistan, the United States has juggled contradictory foreign policies in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the fragile Central Asian states with key supporting roles in the war. There s the policy of engaging the two post Soviet states for their own sake, promoting good governance, human rights, and business ties the usual grab bag of US diplomacy.