Sentence examples for had a thankless task from inspiring English sources

Action Packers: Where tonight's game could be won and lost... Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay quarterback, had a thankless task in succeeding Packers legend Brett Favre three seasons ago, but has since made an attacking, five-receiver offence his own, with Greg Jennings his favourite target.

Many more slipped through.INS agents have a thankless task.

One police communications officer said they have a thankless task.

In the field he has a thankless task.

Most football supporters would accept that referees have a thankless task.

As China's Communist Party prepares for its all-important 16th Congress in November, Ding Guangen, head of the party's propaganda department, has a thankless task: making sure China's increasingly freewheeling state news media are docile and on message.

"Teachers have a thankless task," said the Daily Express, which reported that delegates had variously blamed "foul-mouthed role models such as Wayne Rooney, a boring curriculum and the malign influence of low-quality school dinners" for the abuse they face.

Although Secretary Tillerson has done his best to encourage the parties to resolve their differences—he just landed in Kuwait to make his latest attempt he has a thankless task.

Video coordinators have a thankless job.

If having sex with Lewis seems to have been a thankless task, then lending him money was about as much fun as amputation.

"He had kind of a thankless task," said Nathan Hull, the president of Amore Opera, who prepared a performance edition by drawing on published sources and manuscripts in European libraries.