Debit and credit card fees are among the top monthly expenses for many small businesses, which say the costs are becoming more onerous as fewer consumers carry cash.

It wouldn’t overturn some onerous provisions of state law, including the requirement for parental consent to minors’ abortions.

The Americans also criticise the way Israel slows the delivery of aid by imposing onerous rules, and make a number of specific demands:

Ms Murray said the security measures were "not meant to be punitive or onerous, like some people may suggest, it literally is very proportionate".

He said that due to his dire financial straits, he had no choice but to accept “onerous terms he would have normally rejected in the years before his criminal conviction.”