Sentence examples for national undertaking from inspiring English sources

The conquest of Canaan according to tradition, a united national undertaking led by Moses' successor, Joshua was a rather drawn out and complicated matter.

Re "In New Space Race, Enter the Entrepreneurs" (June 8): Despite President Obama's misguided rollback of the space program, a manned mission to Mars remains a feasible, affordable and fundamentally sound national undertaking.

This enterprise was viewed as a national undertaking for national purposes; and the public mind was directed to the end in view, rather than to the particular means of securing it.

Aside from the shameful fact that tomorrow's citizens, you know, our kids and theirs, haven't made it onto the cost-benefit scale as potential winners if we should act responsibly now, somebody needed to shift the focus to the fact that any national undertaking of ambitious scale would produce a lot of real and immediate winners.

The law made states responsible for turning their poorest children into accomplished scholars in a little more than a decade — a national undertaking on the order of a moon landing — but provided them with little assistance or even direction as to how they might accomplish that goal.

The Fair is a national undertaking for China, with the Director General of the Expo Authority accorded Cabinet rank.

After school he did three years' national service, undertaking a six-month course in physics and advanced mathematics before setting off for the lower slopes of Mount Kenya as a second lieutenant with the Royal Corps of Signals.

During the Gorbachev era there was considerable interest in the notion, though hedged with caution because few if any multi-national undertaking of this scale were actually taking place.

The Foreign Office had already warned British nationals against undertaking any travel to the area because of rising insecurity and the few tour groups willing to ignore that advice are now understood to be reviewing future trips.

Prevalence of tobacco smoking amongst men in Uttarakhand (54.0%) is more than double the national average of 23%, as recently estimated in a national survey undertaken in the same year [ 8].

This paper presents a summary of the findings of a national survey undertaken with respect to workplace parking charges.