Sentence examples for lowly task from inspiring English sources

But being given the lowly task of painting a dead rabbit provided him with an epiphanic moment.

Christopher Hitchens endorsed Barack Obama on Slate on Monday, calling Palin's conduct "a national disgrace" and writing: "Given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing and of recycling patent falsehoods about Obama's position on Afghanistan, she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses".

He spent the last two years of his life as the inmate of a religious hostel in Loreto, paying for his board and lodging by undertaking commissions for the institution that included the lowly task of painting numbers on the dormitory beds.

It wasn't long before the legendary dissident Petr Uhl plucked him from this lowly task.

Yes, that's what Tiepolo was, so often, an exquisite interior decorator, a man for all ceilings – like Michelangelo before him, who in fact snarled and grumbled about the fact that he had been commissioned to paint the Pope's ceiling for the Sistine Chapel because it was so lowly a task in comparison with his life's truly great work, which was the creation of deathless works of sculpture.

But that is typically the job of editors, not lowly journalists tasked with filing raw copy.

Like other rookies, he was assigned lowly team tasks like carrying the team equipment bags during preseason training.

It's just too bad Microsoft and Nokia tasked lowly AT&T of all carriers to launch this pivotal phone.

Significant differences between groups were observed from the 3rd trial on (3rd trial: Mann-Whitney test, Zadj = 2.6, p<0.01; 4th trial: Zadj = 3.3, p<0.001; 5th trial: Zadj = 2.2, p<0.05; 6th trial: Zadj = 2.4, p<0.02) and in retention tests (Zadj = 2.8, p<0.005), thus showing that highly responsive bees learned and remembered better in the aversive discrimination task than lowly responsive bees.

With that has come the advent of "grid computing", in which swarms of lowly PCs, idling between tasks, band together to form a number-crunching mesh equivalent to a powerful supercomputer but at a fraction of the price.

But this year, the former have become a lot more like the latter, with some of the powerful, influential types doing the lowliest of volunteer tasks.