Sentence examples for tasks that lay before from inspiring English sources

At a private Oval Office meeting with President Obama on Feb. 4, Mr. Leahy ticked off the tasks that lay before him in the opening months of Mr. Obama's second term: the Violence Against Women Act, gun safety legislation, immigration and a possible Supreme Court confirmation fight.

Whether he knew it or not, the task that lay before him was to help his audience understand themselves more deeply by providing them with a musical identity that was black and modern.

I started to feel vaguely annoyed, and sort of bored-in-advance, at the repetitious task that lay before me after I had completed roughly 15 sun salutations.

We know the enormous task that lies before us.

"The complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the most urgent task that lies before us and a task we must complete peacefully," Moon told a Buddhist service being held for the success of the upcoming summit.

Transitions often require more time and energy than the tasks that lie between them.

"And I personally pledge to help him in every way possible to fully understand the awesome responsibilities, the tasks and the opportunities that lay before him.

But this had barely scratched the surface of the task that lay ahead.

What I hadn't realised was the scale of the task that lay ahead.

Focus on the task that lay ahead of you instead of the problems in you everyday life.

Though admitting to a dose of additional pre-match nerves on his full return to action, Glaswegian Weir speaks with confidence of the task that lies ahead this weekend, before a record 10,000 Scotstoun crowd.