Sentence examples for great task was to from inspiring English sources

Our great task was to assemble a reliable estimate of the situation.

Dr. Manning became Bishop Manning in 1921, and his great task was to complete the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Inaswer to a question from her he said: "The great task is to make the word 'American" mean what it meant in the beginning - new hope".

In his first Inaugural Address, with the U.S. all but paralyzed by the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt declared that the nation's greatest task was "to put people to work".

In Roosevelt's thinking, conservation and rural betterment were two sides of the same policy.16 "Our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means," Roosevelt declared.17 An orderly house would operate at maximum efficiency, with every component coordinated, every resource developed, and all wasteful excess eliminated.

Their parents had wrought a great event, and their own task was to work out that event's consequences.

Forina, who knows firsthand about jobs, having played a major role in destroying large numbers of them, nobly states that education's great task is not to prepare people for jobs, but to "fill children's souls," to make of them the kinds of citizens who can contribute to a participatory democracy.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.

But he also said in that speech: "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work".

The example had already been set by Franklin Roosevelt, who declared in his first Inaugural Address that "our greatest primary task is to put people to work".

Franklin Roosevelt had it right in his first Inaugural Address when he declared, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work".