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These artists grappled with the task of being "village explainers" (as Gertrude Stein described Ezra Pound) and legitimizing literature for public funding and consumption.

Many have grappled with the task, and, despite the occasional flesh wound, he has been treated fairly, if a little squarely — with far less mutilation, certainly, than someone like Henry James, whom Greene himself wrote about with such feeling, and who continues to be knifed at regular intervals by well-meaning producers.

Schools everywhere were grappling with the task of giving structure to students in the midst of chaos.

Since then, he has not shown enough agility or competence to suggest he can grapple with the task ahead.

Someday Europe may produce leaders willing to grapple with the task of building sustainable European economic institutions.

If the north perceives it has little to gain from the post-referendum arrangements, it might return to fomenting trouble in the south, a significant problem for a southern leadership already grappling with the task of nation-building.

A brainy retired four-star admiral whose jobs included commander of the United States Pacific Command, he is also an Asia expert who is considered adept at running sprawling organizations, seemingly a prerequisite for heading an office that is still grappling with the task of fusing 16 spy agencies.

Many state legislatures and medical schools are currently grappling with the task of expanding the physician workforce in anticipation of future health care demands.

"We have to come up with a new kind of union," the pontiff told reporters as the EU grappled with the unprecedented task of having to negotiate a divorce from a member state.

The occasion is the 30th annual World Economic Forum, the planet's most exclusive networking session, where chief executives, government officials and professional Deep Thinkers are spending six days grappling with the ominous task of promoting "responsible globality".

Moyes is currently grappling with the unenviable task of trying to fill the shoes vacated by Ferguson with mixed results to date, and both West Brom and Everton have already won at Old Trafford this season.