Sentence examples for thankless position from inspiring English sources

"It's a totally thankless position.

Has she decided never again to be in the thankless position of running as a moderate in a Democratic primary campaign, no matter how prohibitive her lead?

And she fully grasped the thankless position of the teachers left to impart knowledge and instill citizenship in the face of awesome obstacles.

1.57pm GMT Poor Marcel Hirscher: Overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher talked bitterly of an Olympic jinx after coming fourth in Wednesday's giant slalom, the same thankless position he claimed in Vancouver four years ago.

And as our elected officials take on these issues head on in their thankless positions, let us all embrace the indelible words of some of the most influential freethinkers, past and present, starting with one of the leading astronomers of our time, Dr. Carl Sagan.

We left fully expecting to find him five years down the road struggling to stay awake through some thankless City Council position.

How would she close out this campaign that began with such promise that future Governor Gray Davis, former chief of staff to Jerry Brown, gave up his powerful post as state controller to run for the usually thankless office of lieutenant governor, the better to be in position in the event she ended up on the national Democratic ticket?

A scandal erupted in Moscow political circles, and Putin's human-rights ombudswoman — whose position is a thankless, largely impotent one, but with a relatively high profile — said that Kadyrov's "statements are not only pointless but also harmful, because they render a disservice to the President and cast a shadow on the country".

Others say that Mr. McCall's position was in the end a thankless one but that he also seemed out of his depth on a board that is a hornet's nest of clashing constituencies and blimp-sized egos.

But governing the place remains a thankless job.

And even though her role is thankless and one-note, even Hilary Swank gets to position herself as the heart of the film – embodying all the innocence that Pacino's character has wilfully flung away.