Sentence examples for tasks confronted from inspiring English sources

From the middle of the 5th century onward, increasingly arduous tasks confronted the emperors of the East in ecclesiastical matters.

One of the tasks confronted by mineralogists is to decide whether or not cations occupying a group of such sites are arranged in an ordered manner.

Compared with those tasks, confronting the unions starts to look much easier.

But answers to these questions are ancillary to the basic tasks confronting Mr. Epstein and the Missile: reconstructing institutions and creating an environment that empowers individuals to make a difference.

Getting together to foster dialogues of theory and practice is frequently presented as one of the major tasks confronting academia: challenging researchers to translate their bright ideas into pay-offs for non-academic organisations.

He said he found the leader to be 'overwhelmed' by the tasks confronting him.

In the 10 months since George W. Bush's departure from the scene, the Obama administration has portrayed the tasks confronting it as a series of challenges stemming primarily from a miserable presidential inheritance.

The reconciliation of science and religion is one of the most compelling tasks confronting religious believers today.

The patient activation component of this intervention is unique and is also one of the more difficult tasks confronting the PNs, who seek to empower patients without straining the relationship with cancer care providers.

Since the first cloning of a human tumour antigen, melanoma antigen-1 (MAGE-1), the identification of tumour antigens capable of inducing an immune response in cancer patients, and the development of vaccines targeting these antigens, have been formidable tasks confronting tumour immunologists [ 5, 6, 9- 13].

In this study, four rooks (a type of bird) faced an Aesopian task: confronted with a vial partly filled with water and holding a floating worm, could they extract this bounty?