Sentence examples for the gruesome task from inspiring English sources

The media is providing regular updates as the gruesome task of identifying corpses in the rubble continues.

The International Committee of the Red Cross already has begun preparing for the gruesome task of tending to the dead and wounded.

A steady stream of relatives and friends made their way along the muddy path to the cult headquarters yesterday to begin the gruesome task of identifying their dead.

In the past few months investigators have once more been at the gruesome task of exhuming bodies in their search for evidence needed to prepare prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

They are the people with the gruesome task of picking through aircraft wreckage to dig out the 'black boxes' that could reveal what happened in a flight's last moments.

"We need to have 100percentt certainty in the identification of the victim before we can identify someone," said Michael Jonniaux, a spokesman for the Belgian federal police, who are overseeing the gruesome task.

Everything was overwhelmed by the gruesome tasks we performed.

The gruesome job of recovering and identifying partial remains has been a significant task for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the signature weapon of the adversary has been homemade bombs hidden beneath and beside roadways.

The last person in the country with the qualifications necessary to carry out the lonely and gruesome task of year-round reindeer herding is leaving, and it's looking like there might not be anyone to replace him.

Forensic experts in Tikrit have begun the delicate and gruesome task of exhuming mass graves believed to contain the remains of up to 1,700 Shia soldiers captured and killed by the Islamic State during the Sunni jihadists' sweeping advance across Iraq last June.

Swiss by birth, he was a descendant of the Cathars - the 13th-century Albigensian heretics - all but exterminated by St Dominic and his Inquisition shock-troops appointed to their gruesome task in the Languedoc by the Vatican.