Sentence examples for on a daunting from inspiring English sources

Metaphysics and megalomania are mixed on a daunting scale, and the effect is overwhelming.

It would be just the opposite: an unparalleled catastrophe for the planet's most desperate people, and something that could be achieved, by the way, only by trampling down individual liberty on a daunting scale.

Bill Frist Senate majority leader, with two years to deliver on a daunting Bush agenda; may then try to break the Senate curse and run for president in 2008.

"It's another big item on a daunting to-do list for Elon in the next 12 to 24 months," he said.

When the 7th Marchioness moved to Hatfield in 2006, she took on a daunting task.

When Elisse Walter stepped into the chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, she took on a daunting task.

Navigating the law as an older adult, or on behalf of one, is a daunting enterprise.

A 19-year-old American who took on a doubly daunting challenge with his first film: being directed by Francis Ford Coppola and acting with the notoriously difficult Vincent Gallo.

The prospect of Knight turning up on anyone's doorstep is a daunting one – he is a big bloke, but that didn't do him any good in this case.

Note from the editor: this article was updated on May 31st.IT IS a daunting to-do list.

Both Gallian and Bicknell passed fifty and, although Gallian was picked up at second slip as he prodded at a turning ball, the home county finished on 134-1, still a daunting 183 behind.