Sentence examples for the appalling task of from inspiring English sources

Co-curator Kristian Martin's hero is a Cambridge undergraduate, poor John Smith, who in the early 19th century was set the appalling task of transcribing the entire early diary.

Faced with an appalling task of sifting, Mr Griffin has chosen to focus on a handful of topics and follow them through, rather than provide a sample that is even-handedly representative of Russell's interests, which, Mr Griffin notes, included "everything under the sun, and a good deal else besides".

Her task has been to keep the appalling injustices of the disaster in the public eye, so that fellow mothers such as Margaret and Anne could, finally, get the world to accept what they had been saying with patient insistence.

A reporter for the London Times wrote that the afternoon was "terrible for a feat of endurance of mind, stamina, muscle, and feet," and candidly assessed the task of the runners as "perfectly appalling".

What is beyond doubt is the appalling treatment of Rezaian.

Findings reveal large scale unavailability of services and bring to light the appalling condition of shelters in the cities surveyed.

Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the appalling realities of the war have become routine.

The appalling conclusions of the Hillsborough independent panel.

The appalling lack of action is, fundamentally, an abject failure of governments and the U.N.

The blend of the chummy and the appalling mirrors the ambiguity of Boucicault's work.

The appalling earthquake in the ancient city of Bam on December 27th 2003 was one of the worst disasters since the last century in Iran.