Sentence examples for took on the problem from inspiring English sources

Karrie Jacobs, claimed in her book The Perfect $100,000 House that Rocio was the first to figure out how to market modern prefab homes: "Even as competitors and imitators spring up, Rocio is the one who really took on the problem of prefabricating a simple, attractive, low-cost modern house and solved it".

Two projects took on the problem of actual housing.

In her first job, as a lawyer for the Children's Defense Fund, she recalled, "I took on the problem of juveniles in adult jails.

Yet another project took on the problem of cyberbullying.

He told Byrne that he'd taken on the problem as a personal project.

Keene had taken on the problem when it acquired another company, Baldwin-Ehret-Hill, which sold insulation made with asbestos until 1972.

Moran, for one, dismissed those who believe the man who has solved everything has now taken on the problem he cannot fix.

More than two dozen other bills are in development to head off future Enrons: some would change the way companies issue stock options, others take on the problem of auditors who act more like lap dogs than watchdogs.

Self Lender takes on the problem by letting people borrow a small sum of money that is held in escrow.

Module 5: The Students Take On the Problem: Although the students had an analogous problem to structure their thinking, they were being asked to think about a novel problem.

In times such as these it is rare indeed to find one such as yourself willing to take on the problems of America.