Sentence examples for has set himself the task from inspiring English sources

Jeebleh has set himself the task to kill Caloosha.

Filene has set himself the task of telling the stories' story.

Mr. Obama, who is traveling in Asia, has set himself the task of wiping out child hunger by 2015.

Over the last several years the painter David Hockney has set himself the task of doing just that.

Each of these would be meat enough for most authors, but Robertson has set himself the task of writing a complete state-of-the-nation accounting.

So Terry Eagleton – literary critic, liberal-baiter, Marxist man of letters – has set himself the task of explaining why Marx was right.

In this spirit, he had set himself the task of bringing high-speed Internet to his district.

Having set himself the task of discovering who the real Pilgrims were, Bunker leaves it to others to square his findings against the Pilgrims of legend.

Oliver Hannon-Dalby, who has a front arm lazier than a lobster, took the prized wicket of Kumar Sangakkara, who had set himself the task of playing the long game while accruing 21 from 39 balls without finding the boundary.

The great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 1601) had set himself the task of amassing a completely new set of planetary observations a reform of the foundations of practical astronomy.

The event, organized by Newsweek, was leisurely, designed to encourage a degree of self-analysis, but Clooney (looking about as skinny as a young Sinatra, his sunglasses hooked over the opening of his collar) seemed to have set himself the task of resisting group drift toward actorly grandeur or celebrity griping.