Sentence examples for taking on of from inspiring English sources

And guilt and self-blame, the taking on of responsibility where one has strictly speaking done no wrong, becomes a way of coping with that harder-to-uncover feeling of shame, and its companion feelings of impotency and helplessness.

This fierce playfulness, the spirited taking on of the universe, infuses both Edith Wharton's fiction and her life.

Their taking on of the "grow or die" philosophy of financial institutions amounts to an inevitable dilution of quality, many believe.

He concluded: "There is an element of self-damnation in the taking on of subordinate roles in western capitalism … however, this damnation is experienced, paradoxically, as true learning, affirmation, appropriation, and as a form of resistance".

The taking on of an establishment that had kind of become very samey is very much the same but the key is that Brexit was won by the little people.

Mr. Bebchuk, who continued his "crusade" earlier this month when he testified before the House committee, argues that that pay and the long-term performance exist in an inverse relationship, wherein the methods used to reward C.E.O.'s produced incentives for those C.E.O.'s to stress the short-term gain at the expense of long-term rationality, especially the taking on of excessive risk.

They kicked it off with a fast and blistering take on, of course, "Green Onions".

For Unruh, the thought of taking on one of his idols was daunting.

"She is taking on sources of nuisance".

And Pernod is taking on lots of debt.

Yet he is openly taking on Microsoft of Redmond, Wash.