Sentence examples for most elemental tasks from inspiring English sources

Even the most elemental tasks that used to be managed by the state — such as buying food — are increasingly in the hands of a private system that sets its own prices based on supply and demand.

Despite more than 10 years of experience and billions of dollars, the peacekeeping force still seems to be failing at its most elemental task: protecting civilians.

At its most elemental, butter transforms dry toast.

It is the power of movies at their most elemental.

European nations can no longer perform many elemental tasks of moving troops and fighting.

WEINGARTEN -- Yet you could bring a sense of wonder to the most elemental classroom experiments.

These noiseicians reduced 'rock' to its most elemental state — a primitive beat and an emotion.

His most elemental fear is that people have lost all sense of right and wrong.

One is the humble black and white portrait, the most elemental of images.

I have failed at one of the most elemental of male jobs: getting married.

Pagano, a skipper for 21 years, has resurrected the most elemental: the inshore eel-casting trip.