Eventually this also included the colossal task of managing the provision of war pensions, managing repatriation hospitals and convalescent homes and administering the Soldier Settlement Scheme.
Even if he pulls through this latest saga with his job intact, Mr Messier has nobody to blame for the colossal task he faces but himself.
Nonetheless, she embarks on the colossal task of telling as much of the story of Rome and its provinces as she can fit into 544 pages.
The tension between the universal mission of the church and the hitherto omitted missionary duties, as well as the idea that the colossal task must be accomplished in the shortest time possible, renders comprehensible the astonishing physical and spiritual achievements of the great Christian missionaries.
It is therefore imperative that the colossal task of documenting the local epidemiology of emergencies now be undertaken to make the development of the specialty locally relevant.
Maybe he just would have been catching an extra hour of sleep to feel energized for the colossal task he is faced with everyday, turning on adolescents to reading, writing, and learning.
What credit we can claim is owed to the men and women in our armed forces and to the international civilians who have shouldered the colossal task of assisting in the reconstruction of a country while simultaneously confronting a deadly insurgency.
It is clear at this juncture that such a colossal task would require the use of various levels of analysis, from single cells to the complex network in the living brain, and comprehensive utilization of a battery of experimental approaches, including molecular genetics, imaging, electrophysiology and behavioural testing.
Forty years ago, when Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin ordained a colossal task: to turn this heat-puckered land and four of its neighbors, a swath of desert and scrub as big as Western Europe, into an irrigated cotton plantation.
