Sentence examples for taskmaster from inspiring English sources

She is a caregiver, like a Mutti, not a taskmaster, like her Irish or Greek caricatures.By temperament, Mrs Merkel tries to slow political processes down.

The "shiftless" Cherokees proudly did everything necessary.The healing springMs Mankiller was not an easy taskmaster.

Like Jobs, Amazon's boss is a demanding taskmaster and micromanager who does not suffer fools gladly.

As it turned out, he saved many thousands.In Dayton and everywhere else he was a hard taskmaster, but this was no more than he demanded of himself: shuttling to and fro between continents, staying up sleepless to read a book or to watch "There's Something About Mary" for the fifth time.

Faced with such hard times, people yearned for some empathy and warmth from their taskmaster but Mr Kubilius remained aloof.

The head of finance can now take on the responsibility and thus importance to the company—of watchdog, conscience, taskmaster and strategist all at once.

The octogenarian investor is "a difficult taskmaster", cautions Gerry Meyers, a former chief executive of American Motors and now a professor at the University of Michigan.

But the American workplace is a demanding taskmaster.

These goals also reveal Mr Modi's mentality as a leader: he sees himself in the mould of a CEO, or a taskmaster who sets concrete targets for others to implement.The 30-odd items constitute a checklist to assess whether Mr Modi's government is living up to its promises.

Mr Modi needs to get beyond being a taskmaster and explain more clearly his broader sweep of goals.He might set out, for example, what he understands by his phrase of "minimum government, maximum governance" and describe how he understands that markets could deliver more in India, rather than relying on overwhelmed government to do ever more.

A teacher should not be a taskmaster.