Sentence examples for a more daunting test from inspiring English sources

Hurricane Sandy put few agencies in the region to a more daunting test than it did the New York City Housing Authority — the nation's biggest public landlord — as 402 of its buildings housing 77,000 residents lost electricity and elevators, with most of them also losing heat and hot water.

Republicans have a more daunting task.

Europe, which cannot define who will be helped and when or by whom, faces a more daunting task.

Is there a team in the National Football League with a more daunting task this week than the Jets?

However, it can be a more daunting task than it sounds.

Discussing HIV screening results with patients was described as being even more daunting: "Testing is the least of the problem; what happens next is".

A coarsely textured terrine of pork, offal and fat seemed a more daunting proposition, somehow.

Is there anyone in Brussels with a more daunting portfolio of responsibilities than Rainer Gerold?

Dividing a 6 mm (caprine) or 7 mm (ovine) can be a more daunting prospect and can leave artefact obscuring true results.

But for the students, who officially graduate on Wednesday, preparing for this quintessentially American rite of passage felt more like a daunting test.

But Maggie, having achieved professional success, finds assembling a family a much more daunting idea.