Sentence examples for daunting period from inspiring English sources

For lesser clubs than St Helens this would be a daunting period because after the Leeds game Saints have a tough Challenge Cup tie at Huddersfield followed by another trip to Yorkshire to face high-flying Castleford in the league, before Wigan and Widnes over Easter.

There have been eight presidents, and the other two on Pound's short list are Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who revived the Olympics from a multi-millennium slumber in 1896; and Avery Brundage, the American who was president from 1952 and 1972 and negotiated the daunting period after World War II.

The U.S. is in a daunting period of rapid dissipation, not imminent collapse.

The play's undergirding of history, politics and warfare, all still unspooling in war-torn Africa, made character development even more daunting than in acclaimed period pieces by Ms. Nottage like "Intimate Apparel," "Las Meninas" and "Crumbs From the Table of Joy," which is set in the 1950s.

Even through the daunting physical difficulties of the last period of her life, her warmth, generosity and humor never left her.

Constructivist buildings were neglected for much of the Soviet period, and renovating them is a daunting – and expensive – task.

Delivering rich immersive experiences without relying on user movement can seem daunting and less rewarding, but once the honeymoon period is over and laziness reigns, it's not unrealistic to imagine that seated experiences become the norm for most.

A single person could conduct such a screen in a period of months, making it a much less daunting project than the execution of an EMS or P element screen.

Of the 20 most daunting words, only two were used more than 30 times during the period covered (Jan . 1through July 14): anathema and perfunctory.

Computing the positions of the planets over a period of 5 billion years as they gravitationally interact is a daunting task.

In private he noted that the period between Easter and Whitsuntide was "propitious to study" and set himself daunting tasks for this time of year.