Sentence examples for the challenging assignment from inspiring English sources

With his marriage crumbling, Minnelli spent a year directing screen tests before taking on the challenging assignment of adapting Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

But Estes is starting against the hated Clemens and the Yankees, and with that challenging assignment comes an expectation that Estes will repay a two-year-old debt.

Now, he faces perhaps the most challenging assignment of his career: the restructuring of his own law firm.

Ernesto Martens Rebolledo, chief executive of an airline, has been tapped for what may be the most challenging assignment of all -- the Ministry of Energy.

That speech was in many ways the more challenging assignment, a more audacious staking of ground.

Jonathan Veitch, Unicef representative in South Sudan I've worked in humanitarian response for decades but this has been the most challenging assignment I've ever been given.

"Nominated for a 2009 Soap Opera Spirit Award as outstanding lead actor, St. John inarguably faced the most challenging assignment of any actor in 2008 in any genre," said Branco.

The Mosul offensive proved to be one of the most challenging assignments I've covered.

Now Vice President Al Gore has dispatched Christopher on what is, in its way, one of the most challenging assignments he has ever taken on: to sort through the weakest Democratic field in modern memory and find the few men or women who could be a next vice president of the United States -- in short, to create the List.

Her next posting was to be the information officer at the American Embassy in Algiers — another challenging assignment.

"If you're in someone's living room every week for 10 years," She told The New York Times, "people are going to have a hard time saying, 'O.K., so we're going to see you do what now?" Even more impressive than Jennifer's performance is the courage it took to step up to such a challenging assignment -- the leap earning her critical acclaim and a whole new fan base.