Sentence examples for peculiar task from inspiring English sources

It was just a few years ago that he faced the peculiar task of having to show support for HBCUs, without giving his political enemies the impression that the black president was being unnecessarily favorable to black colleges.

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion summoned the Israeli army to carry out a peculiar task: Rabin and his men were to fire on the Altalena, a ship carrying weapons bound for the Irgun, a paramilitary Israeli group and vestige of pre-state Israel.

Under Mr. Hirsch's direction, workers from Kibbutz Afikim in the Jordan Valley, where he was born and raised, carry out peculiar tasks.

So we have a peculiar and original task: the Lib Dems have to replace the people who voted for us because they thought we wouldn't be in power with the people who didn't vote for us because they thought we wouldn't be in power.

In order to avoid bias in our results by this peculiar type of tasks, we decided to consider only the subset of MRs that had a maximum resolution time of the mean resolution time plus one standard deviation.

The latter task is peculiar in the sense that, perhaps contra-intuitively, brain-damaged animals with lesions to the hippocampal formation perform better than intact animals do [ 16].

Viewers are invited to explore the space and view the living sculptures as they continue about their own peculiar and very specific tasks.

The BFG Adapting Dahl can be a tricky task, given how peculiar and lived-in the author's worlds seem.