Sentence examples for the daunting assignment of from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

The easy-going Aussie had the daunting assignment of playing the first two rounds in the same group as Woods, but said he welcomed it.

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.

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 the 23-year-old Mike Pelfrey, given a daunting assignment of trying to stop this free fall, that meant trying his hardest to block that assignment out.

Sure enough, he gave me the most daunting assignment.

Heather Buck (who, as it happens, sang the lead role in Mr. Adès's "Powder Her Face" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1998) sang the Queen of the Night, and it must have been a daunting assignment to do it in the company of Ms. Dessay, one of the finest recent interpreters of the role, and opposite Ms. Sieden in the aerial acrobatics of "The Tempest".

Kirkham's fame as a referee was widespread enough that, in addition to multiple internationals, he had been selected to officiate one of the most daunting assignments imaginable: a one-match playoff between Celtic and Rangers to decide the 1905 Scottish League title.