Sentence examples for accepting the task from inspiring English sources

According to the Wrap, Fincher made it a condition of his accepting the task of directing the film that producing studio Sony secure Bale for the lead.

After the second world war, he worked for six years as a translator for Unesco before in 1953 accepting the task of organising the banned Communist party in Madrid.

Martin Indyk, an assistant secretary of state, has been touting the idea round the Gulf states (with remarkably little success); another American official is trying to co-ordinate between the bickering Iraqi factions who find themselves nominated for (though not necessarily accepting) the task of overthrowing Mr Hussein.

Nevertheless, we conducted an additional series of 16 experiments which alternated the compensation between $0.01 per point and $0.005 per point (participants were also paid a fixed up-front fee of $0.50 for accepting the task and passing the quiz).

Yet even a player as confident as Ronaldo accepts the task is fraught with difficulty.

On Thursday the player who sternly accepted the task was Timberwolves forward Andrei Kirilenko.

I'm more willing to accept the task put in front of me". 8. Margaret L. Dundon "I've always been assertive.

Back in the hall, divisions were papered over, as best they could be, by those who accepted the task.

Rumor was that he accepted the task reluctantly, but he has worked hard and pushed enemies near to a settlement.

Levi still regarded the Eighth as subscribers' kryptonite, so he pawned it off on Felix Weingartner, who accepted the task with seeming gusto, then failed to produce a première.

Like a wise political candidate, he presented himself as the reluctant outsider who had accepted the task of cleaning up a mess left by corrupt predecessors.