undertake a task

And he invited him to undertake a task still more arduous.

Once there, they undertake a task that teaches them how the site formed and why it is important.

"As his heir you are bound to undertake a task in my name.

Refusal to undertake a task because of speculation about possible negative results is not logical.

On this occasion, however, the Boers had undertaken a task which was beyond their strength.

I am about to undertake a task, Cheng explained.

Yet, in a sense, Jadway had undertaken a task as difficult.

I have no one else capable of undertaking a task so critical - and so dangerous.

"Now, first, let me be very clear that I'm not certain I could undertake a task of this magnitude.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev has undertaken a task unprecedented in modern time.

I have undertaken a task beyond human power; and I shall fail in it."

She has mentally taken control of the patients and staff at the hospital to undertake a task of building an unknown structure.

We are undertaking a task that will cover 27 Member States with differing degrees of experience in this sensitive area.

The statesman who places before himself these lofty aims has undertaken a task which will call forth all his powers.

The tall man realized that in coming here, he had undertaken a task that grew more hopeless all the time.

-For just now we seemed to be undertaking a task which would never be accomplished.

"We had to undertake a task whose nature is. . . complex.

In philosophy, collective intentionality characterizes the phenomenon that occurs when two or more individuals undertake a task together.

"Cerryl, all students must undertake a task - a thing to be accomplished alone - before they are accepted into the Guild.

Undertaking a task 'with fixed bayonets' has this connotation of no room for compromise and is a phrase used particularly in politics.

Sisko felt a sting of regret that he had asked her to undertake a task she had not felt comfortable performing.

Even after years of field-work, you would not have been asked to undertake a task as dangerous as intervention with regard to the Mayfair Witches.

Samay had decreed that two young boys would undertake a task that even the greatest champions of yore would have feared to attempt.

I have seen it on the battlefield, with men about to undertake a task likely to be fatal but which must be hazarded so others will not perish.

I asked him what it was, and he said he had been asked to undertake a task, on behalf of the Five, and that he needed my help."