Sentence examples for takes on with from inspiring English sources

And in the course of its story, the quiet investigator, Tracy, rallies the courage and reasserts law in a demoralized community, as he takes on (with just one arm) one of the screen's most menacing trios (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan).

The Crown Prosecution Service will dramatically ramp up the number of tax evasion cases it takes on – with a view to prosecution – over the next two years, Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, told the Financial Times.

Another dilemma is the availability and the risk of liquidity one takes on with exotic options.

It is also a crucial one in painting a picture as majestically terrible as the one director Steve McQueen takes on: With the subtlest of strokes, the chat expands our understanding of baroque Southern social structure, both white and black and baroque Southern sexual relationships, too.

The new book is a collection of essays about ageing that takes on, with characteristic brio, what Ephron considers to be the medicated smiliness of most volumes on the subject.

Timothy P. Jones staged the original 1999 production, a job Mr. MacIvor takes on with the new version, but he has made only minimal changes to the script and direction.

"[State legislators] engaging in unconstitutional, immoral actions must be challenged and taken on with a deeper language of what's right and what's wrong," he said.

Twitter takes on WhatsApp with direct message chat upgrade.

Dealstruck takes on banks with a "Lending Club for small businesses".

Amazon takes on PayPal with expanded payments-processing service.

That takes on HRC, With both passion and glee: Fiorina!