1.   He set himself a punishing schedule of conferences.

2.   He set himself a punishing schedule of talks, lectures and conferences all over America.

3.   Wang has a punishing schedule.

4.   He must have been physically fit to survive the punishing schedule to which he submitted himself.

5.   The obvious explanation for the suddenness of this flop was a punishing schedule.

6.   The past two weeks he has been in Baku, Paris, Cannes, Nice and kept up a punishing schedule of rehearsals and performances in London.

7.   To say nothing of the punishing schedules still maintained by guys such as B.B. King.

8.   Armstrong, whose victory in Paris marked a remarkable personal victory over life-threatening cancer, has set himself a punishing schedule since finishing the Tour on Sunday.

9.   Cherkassy kept a punishing schedule throughout his career.

10.   Dr Mahathir, it has often been pointed out, keeps a punishing schedule.