Sentence examples for tackling hundreds from inspiring English sources

Portugal is also battling its annual wildfire season, with more than 4,400 firefighters tackling hundreds of blazes across the country.

They divided up the job and while she tackled 18th-century English agriculture, he tackled 18th-century English social life.

Even the new gurus who position themselves as the embodiment of Old World civilities — currently fashionable, thanks to "Downton Abbey" — feel obligated to tackle 21st-century conundrums.

As a country, we are addicted to using a Victorian invention to tackle 21st century problems and the results of our custodial obsession have brought the penal system to its knees.

They had moved on from deconstructing the novel, by Geraldine Brooks, to hashing out topics for research papers in the science and social studies class, called Disease and Society: one wanted to tackle 17th-century grave digging in London; another would explore the obligation midwives had to report illegitimate children.

The police must be allowed to tackle "21st-Century crimes" such as cyber fraud and money laundering, she added.

As a senior advisor for "innovation in Hillary Clinton's State Department," Alec Ross, was on hand to tackle "21st Century Statecraft".

Dismissing claims of cultural cannibalism made against the Carib and Aztec peoples by invading Spanish colonialists, he tackles 19th and 20th century claims regarding socially acceptable cannibalism in Sub-Saharan Africa and New Guinea.

He seeks to leverage lateral thinking and trans-disciplinary approaches, with the goal of preparing and cultivating the next generation of young leaders to tackle 21st century health challenges.

We are tackling a 21st-century problem with 20th-century tools.

The New Orleans Advocate's masthead is essentially the Times-Picayune-in-exile, but its way of tackling the 10th anniversary of Katrina is strikingly different.