Sentence examples for the daunting assignment from inspiring English sources

Alderson's sense of humor has surfaced often enough as he has wrestled with the daunting assignment of reviving the Mets.

CARLOS GHOSN'S nickname -- Le Cost Killer -- preceded his arrival in Japan in 1999, with the daunting assignment of reviving Nissan.

And so, The Times's Greg Bishop will take on the daunting assignment of blogging from various parties around New York on Saturday.

All of which probably helped prepare him for the daunting assignment he faces in taking over a Knicks team that has spent this season bouncing from confusion to cohesion to controversy, with no guarantee it will even make the playoffs.

FOR more than 40 years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has had the daunting assignment of making sure that no enemy -- or, for that matter, any current friend -- has access to tomorrow's technology faster than does the Defense Department.

Alan Leidner, an assistant commissioner at the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, told the Select Committee on Technology in Government about the daunting assignment he received on the night of Sept. 11: build a system to create and distribute the maps that every agency was clamoring for.

Guardiola felt this daunting assignment would offer a gauge of the progress of his City team and there were some positives for him to take.

That imperative helps to explain why, by common consent, the politician with the most daunting assignment in Manchester this week was not the Tory leader himself, who delivered his main speech on October 8th as The Economist went to press.

As much as Connecticut might concern itself with stopping the Minnesota senior guard Lindsay Whalen, who is averaging 22 points a game in the tournament, slowing McCarville may be the more daunting assignment.

Sure enough, he gave me the most daunting assignment.

Oakland will start the rookie Sonny Gray, a daunting assignment in a series that will head to Detroit for Game 3 — and Game 4, if necessary.