Sentence examples for an improbable task from inspiring English sources

Turning San Francisco into a solar beacon might seem an improbable task, but residents have demanded it.

United were left with an improbable task when Jansson was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for slowing Afobe down on his way to goal.

SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Naeem Akhtar has an improbable task in the Indian government's drive to revitalize Kashmir after 18 years of militant violence: rebranding this heavily militarized Himalayan region as a global golfing destination.

The successful isolation of a useful surrogate may seem an improbable task especially in cases where nothing is known about the hotspot surface(s) on a target.

Basically it's a caper movie: some improbable task has to be pulled off by a combination of ingenuity, training, deception and luck.

Two days later, Novell and Netscape Communications, a leading Internet-software formedformed a joint venture called Novonyx, whose slightly improbable task is to get big companies to use both firms' (rival) technologies.

Rowetta, on the other hand, is a fabulous singer – only last week she pulled off the improbable task of singing Joy Divison's Atmosphere live with Peter Hook's band at the Factory Club opening.

9 07 p.m. | Updated The Philadelphia Flyers awoke Monday with the improbable task of figuring out how to rebound from a 3-1 series deficit against the Devils in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

LOS ANGELES — If the Phoenix Coyotes succeed in winning four consecutive games to reach their first Stanley Cup finals, they could look back to a rare power-play goal as the start of that seemingly improbable task.

But none seems to believe it can stabilise the place; and this remains NATO's improbable task.

There appeared little likelihood of Edinburgh overturning the 19-point deficit but they set about that improbable task with vigour.