Sentence examples for taken on the problem from inspiring English sources

Weary of government inaction, many public and private groups not officially responsible for cleaning the city's streets — including City Council offices, neighborhood councils, business improvement districts and volunteers — have taken on the problem.

He told Byrne that he'd taken on the problem as a personal project.

Keene had taken on the problem when it acquired another company, Baldwin-Ehret-Hill, which sold insulation made with asbestos until 1972.

Moran, for one, dismissed those who believe the man who has solved everything has now taken on the problem he cannot fix.

Two projects took on the problem of actual housing.

The court, however, has so far refused to take on the problem.

New York's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, is taking on the problem of money in judicial elections.

How would you propose taking on the problem that The New Community College set out to address?

[Page C1.] But as federal regulators begin to take on the problem of unwanted phone calls, new questions have risen.

In her first job, as a lawyer for the Children's Defense Fund, she recalled, "I took on the problem of juveniles in adult jails.

Dickerman, in the catalogue introduction, analyzes Duchamp's mordant take on the problem, which bedevilled early abstraction, of finding meaning in art that had no recognizable subjects.