Sentence examples for a Herculean challenge from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, its pledge to transform the NHS offers a Herculean challenge to its competence.

Extracting that enormous resource of power, however, has proved to be a herculean challenge.

Caring for three elderly relatives all at once seems a Herculean challenge, but Mr. Moorhead described it differently.

That's Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old mathematical genius for whom walking down the street or holding a conversation is a herculean challenge.

Mayor Adrian Fenty of Washington embraced a Herculean challenge when he convinced lawmakers to give him direct control of the city's corrupt and dysfunctional school system.

For the moment, just calming the highest level of violence ever between Israelis and Palestinians posed a Herculean challenge for General Zinni.

I know it's hard to imagine (it certainly was for me), but even managing to take a shower is a daily, herculean challenge.

This story is just an illustrative anecdote of the herculean challenge of engaging in human rights advocacy within the UN system, where concern for human rights is too often sacrificed for political expediency at the very organization chartered to uphold those rights.

Of course, getting there as well as convincing Mobutu to grant an interview posed herculean challenges, even for Africa.

"It was a Herculean political challenge," according to Mr. Carlin, "but in the World Cup, to be played in South Africa a year after he came to power, Mandela saw an opportunity not to be missed".

From October 10, an all-star cast of singers will be descending on the Oxford Lieder Festival to attempt this herculean challenge, ticking off every song alongside a wider celebration of Schubert's life and times.