Sentence examples for monstrous problem from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Liddy told him that he had decided to leave retirement to take the job, Mr. Purcell said he told Mr. Liddy he was a "great American," but warned him that taking on A.I.G. would be "a monstrous problem".

The arc of turmoil in the Middle East, stretching from Syria and Iraq through Yemen and Egypt's Sinai peninsula back to Libya (and throw in a detour to Boko Haram and northern Nigeria as well), presents a monstrous problem for Western policymakers.

This country of nearly 45 million still has myriad and monstrous problems -- poverty's still rampant; agrarian reform desperately needed; and despite billions sent by Washington for the antidrug Plan Colombia, the country remains the world's top cocaine exporter, with coca production up 27percentt last year.

By Kopano Matlwa Mabaso, University of Oxford The health systems conference is an opportunity for us, all of us, health care workers, community representatives, politicians, academics, business people and any other interested parties, to come together and share ideas on how we can tackle large, monstrous problems in a decisive and definitive way.

Just 80 years later, Speer's creation has left Nuremberg with a monstrous architectural problem which is worsening each year, despite the city's efforts to  put distance and time between itself and the nightmare that began with Nazi rule in 1933.

You have a monstrous job".

The million barrel a day project has already created monstrous environmental problems.

Pakistan has a monstrous set of problems, and some Homeland gets right.

To conclude, Mr. Chairman, the monstrosity of the tax code we have today has created a problem of monstrous proportions.

On the question of journalistic practice, De Botton is at his most interesting on the job of the foreign correspondent – "interesting" in that the same paragraph can combine a nicely expressed insight into a problem with a monstrous stupidity as its solution.

What has happened in Flint by State Government fiat was madness; and the abject failure to now fully remedy the problem is a monstrous dereliction of duty.