Sentence examples for the awful task from inspiring English sources

Parker also described the awful task of having to explain Emilie's death to her siblings aged three and four.

Mr. Presley will eventually have to grapple with what he called the "awful task" of not pushing the utility into bankruptcy while determining how much electricity customers, taxpayers and investors should pay for the billions of dollars in cost overruns.

"It was too hard to bear if you thought about it as a whole, you had to divide the awful task of raising children into days of trials and tempers, minutes of love, seconds of comprehension".

We spoke to a vivacious housewife-turned-chef in a migrant soup kitchen, a hospital director whose wards were full of burned and brutalised migrant patients and a gravedigger who had the awful task of burying those who washed up dead on Europe's shores.

49 grieving families are left with the awful task of burying loved ones.

If such small matters can be cause for tension and discord, imagine the awful task of U.S. officers trying to explain to Afghan families how American artillery wound up killing and wounding innocent villagers.

But many other people, from hard-hatted workers in the pit to blue-suited officials in City Hall, wanted to mark the awesome completion of an awful task: the separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris, and the delicate removal of both.

It was an awful task, to salvage Britain's biggest finance house from the wreckage left by Gordon Brown's City favourite, Fred Goodwin.

I will go in; 'tis an awful task I undertake; an awful deed I have to do; still if it is Heaven's will, be it so; I loathe and yet I love the enterprise.

When he went downstairs to make himself coffee, he would encounter the couple in the kitchen, in some aspect of their private hell, dark-eyed and irritable from lack of sleep and mutual loathing, as they divvied up their awful tasks, which included prayer and meditation.

So if you're an Indie author struggling with that god-awful task of building a platform, my advice is to look around.