Sentence examples similar to face up to task from inspiring English sources

Political leadership is about ensuring that we adults face up to this task.

We need to face up to the real task: moving the piano.

He has yet to face up to the huge task of tackling persistently high food-price inflation; to do that will require scrapping prehistoric rules that keep agriculture unproductive and prevent free trade within India.

Musicians who specialize in performing works of the deep past, from the Baroque, the Renaissance, or before, eventually have to face up to the impossibility of their task.

…been able to face up to problems?

Face up to the inevitable.

That bodes ill when the EU should be facing up to the task of trying to make Europe function at least tolerably when most of its members wish, for the moment – and it could be a long moment – neither to move forward to fuller integration nor to revert to the pre-euro situation.

Reid had the kind of political imagination, flair and charisma which is sorely needed today as the now shrunken left faces up to the task of whether it can create an effective "coalition of resistance" against the coalition government's cuts and privatisation programme.

Kathleen has a lot of facing up to do, a task she has assiduously refused since leaving Ireland as a young woman.

As the year draws to a close, the arts community in Guimarães is slowly facing up to the challenging task of generating alternative revenue to keep their cultural ambitions alive.

For pure activity, the pen will always lose the battle with the belaying pin, but the task of writing must be faced up to, just as maritime tasks were.