belabour in a sentence

1. I'm not going to belabour the point.

2. Bernard was belabouring Jed with his fists

3. I don't think it needs any further belabouring.

4. Between 1966 and 1968, Paul VI seemed to waver before taking a tormented and belaboured decision.

5. Both are indeed mysterious, and their genuine mystery needs none of the hype with which this film relentlessly and noisily belabours us", concluding that the film is "tosh".

6. At the same time, the US was endorsing one of the most belaboured and discredited exercises in imperial mapmaking - the McMahon Line - and an instance of great power betrayal - the alienation of Tawang.

7. The PF faction in the Church hopes to detach the question of abuse from the matter of homosexuality, to define the problem as 'clericalism', and to use this presupposition to belabour traditional concepts of priesthood.

8. There is no need to belabour the point that Social Democracy has nothing in common with those bought-and-paid-for moralists who, in response to any terrorist act, make solemn declarations about the 'absolute value' of human life.

9. Third, we need to try to be as efficient as possible in everything we do, whether it's flying across the world — the UN took a first, belaboured stab at regulating airline emissions last week — or designing buildings that use less electricity through passive heating and cooling.