Sentence examples for small endeavor from inspiring English sources

Tackling "Higher Ground" was no small endeavor.

Moving a stone wall is no small endeavor, so I always plan carefully.

This was no small endeavor considering the size of Canada, the forbidding climate and the inaccessibility of the northern latitudes.

The Web site she started in 2014, casualsexproject.com, began as a small endeavor fuelled by personal referrals, but has since grown to approximately five thousand visitors a day, most of whom arrive at the site through organic Internet searches or referrals through articles and social media.

Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen.

"Collecting this core was no small endeavor," says paleolimnologist John Smol of Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.

It's about small endeavors, the edge of meaning or significance.

"Winston Churchill always said that government should not be engaged in small endeavors," said David R. Gergen, who worked in the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton White Houses.

"Unfortunately, it happens from time to time — too often, really," said the museum consultant John E. Simmons, whose book "Things Great and Small" endeavors to standardize collections management policy.

By contrast, smaller endeavors thrived.

Special licenses must be obtained for the smallest endeavors.