Sentence examples for she undertook to from inspiring English sources

Her doctor said she wasn't too ill to work, so she undertook to clean up some unfinished business by telephone.

Friedan must have taken this into account when she undertook to present herself as just an ordinary overeducated suburban housewife — "one of us".

In a vision, St. Francis directed Colette to restore the Poor Clares to the original severity of their rule, which she undertook to do, in 1406, after visiting Antipope Benedict XIII and receiving his support.

Her art often infuses quixotic optimism into visual relics of life behind the Iron Curtain, such as a project she undertook to relight an iconic neon sign of a volleyball player in Warsaw's Constitution Square.

By not sheltering Nora from the consequences of her crime -- which she undertook to save his life -- Torvald proves that the institution of conventional marriage stands convicted of being a fraud by its own avowed standards.

And of the many acts she undertook to enshrine her husband's memory, one of the most important was to insist that the other of his twin passions public health be given the highest of government priorities.At the time, the Thames was effectively an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health.

With Woolf as a presiding spirit, she undertakes to walk this 42-mile, ten-a-penny kind of English river that rises near Haywards Heath and empties into the Channel at Newhaven (City of the Dead, according to Woolf) from source to sea.

But the continual work she undertakes to keep everything calm and the strain of maintaining control over Teran gradually tires her.

She then undertook to reform her monastery.

While pledging to maintain the prudent economic management that has underpinned Chile's high growth, she also undertook to spend more on social programmes and to improve equality of opportunity.

The role of Eleonora in Easter 19011), which intimidated Bosse by its sensitivity and delicacy, but which she finally undertook to play, turned out to be Bosse's most successful and beloved role, and a turning-point in Bosse's and Strindberg's relationship.