When he did begin composition, he was confronted by the gigantic task of compressing 25 scenes into three acts.
Under Ashi's leadership the Academy, which had been closed since 309, was revived, and the gigantic task of collating scattered notes, sayings, legislative opinions, and homiletic lore was conducted for more than 30 years.
Begun as a source of income in 1838 for the brothers after their dismissal from Göttingen, the work required generations of successors to bring the gigantic task to an end more than a hundred years later.
But this gigantic undertaking is built on local successes, such as at Kadima mission.
Today, a fragile peace prevails and Eritrea faces the gigantic tasks of rebuilding its infrastructure and of developing its economy after more than 30 years of fighting.
"What a gigantic task this group has taken on," said the director of repertory licensing, Patricia Lent, who danced with the company from 1984 to 1993 and is now a Cunningham trustee.
The narrator of a promotional sales video — which was produced by the laboratory, apparently to advertise its product lines to international customers — describes, over thumping music, how Khan saw this challenge: "In theory, it was simple but, practically, a gigantic task".
It is a gigantic task, and one that goes well beyond the realm of toy stores.
In the art department, they face their own gigantic task to prepare the sets and scenery, with all their many sight gags.
Broecker concedes that a meaningful attack on CO2 levels through scrubbing the air would be a gigantic task involving the whole planet.
