Sentence examples for daunting running from inspiring English sources

And it entered the field with a veritable litany of handicaps: no stars, a little-known playwright and a daunting running time of more than three hours.

The obvious place to secure it, in an otherwise daunting run-in, is at St James' Park next week.

People who have made such daunting runs for office say it appears to enhance name recognition, a prime currency of political races.

Thomas Hitzlsperger is confident West Ham United's unexpected and impressive victory over Liverpool will convince the team they can secure enough points from a daunting run-in to achieve Premier League survival.

McClellan faces a daunting task in running the FDA.

This applies equally to men and women, but the stark reality is that many more women than men still work what the sociologist Arlie Hochschild memorably called "the second shift" -the daunting responsibilities of running a family in addition to working full-time jobs.

They have none too daunting a run-in, which continues tomorrow night when they play Nottingham Forest at home, and their final game away to Fulham could prove the clincher for a play-off place.

He compared his task to that of Eric Liddell, the Scottish athlete who overcame daunting challenges to run to a gold medal in the 400-meter race in the 1924 Olympic Games, a feat chronicled in the movie "Chariots of Fire".

"Maybe people who were sitting tight are thinking now, 'It's time to get moving.'" Thousands of business travelers remain stranded in hotels or were running into daunting obstacles as they tried to negotiate a perilous maze as the civil unrest turned routine business trips into dangerous ordeals.

The job is technically daunting (the tax code runs almost 74,000 pages).

The first was that deciphering the intricacies of the £9.3bn public sector funding package for the London Games remains as daunting as trying to run the marathon.