“It’s going to be a very long slog, ” he predicts.
After the slog of the previous 12 years they feel they deserve a break.
"There is no silver Bullet," says Devarajan, "just the hard slog of reforming institutions and power relations."
To be fair, many scientists at the time were warning that it would be a long, slow slog to reap clinical benefits.
The long-awaited recovery is now under way, but it's a slow, painful slog that's short on animal spirits and long on a drumbeat of numbers that mostly shift from dreadful to less depressing.
But the adjustment was a hard slog.
So, it could be a hard slog for investors.
A hard slog, but at least I now have enough cherries to last me about half the way.
Wild behaviour hurt his form; punishment meant long bans and lossof rankings, so that he had to slog time and again through grimy qualifying rounds.
This will be a long slog.
Visitors slog up a crowded, hillside holding hands with strangers like worker ants on a particularly gruesome mission.
Unlike some games where you can jump to your favourite levels from a handy home screen, there are no shortcuts in Hyrule, just the long, hard slog of the road, be it by foot or on horseback.
Of course Doha must succeed, goes the mantra; yes, it will be a hard slog.
The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out. That may be realistic but it also suggests a siege that could outlast Troy's.
So it's been a great journey, however, having said that, the resistance to change has also been considerable and it's been a hard slog to change mindsets.
The recovery will be a longer slog than many expect.
Everyone worries about Iraq, either because they think the war should never have been fought, or because of the long, costly and thankless slog it has turned into.
