Sentence examples for took up a task from inspiring English sources
For once they took up a task (as she took up hers, of wise scrutiny) it became a duty they could never put down; until, like any good thing cheese, wine, hung pheasant decay inevitably but benevolently set in.
They are taking up a task others are abandoning.
Again and again, a person methodically takes up a task, then someone joins in, then someone else.
When people do take up a task, the brain's executive network lights up to issue commands, and the default network is often suppressed.
In negotiating the transfer of the canal's management to the Panamanians, Carter was taking up a task that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford had regarded as strategically essential but politically toxic.
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Taking up this task, the essay proposes a queer politics of subtraction through an investigation of the now ubiquitous relational database management system known as SQL, suggesting its use of the NULL marker opens space for a queer indeterminacy.
But someone had to raise an objection to this, I guess, and so Fox News' Tucker Carlson took up the task, in a segment Wednesday with USA Today's deputy editorial page editor David Mastio.
Her sons have already taken up that task.
In November 1906, Douglas Haig was appointed Director of Staff Duties at the War Office, and took up the task of providing a new training doctrine for the Army.
And in the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy assassination, Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind). took up the task of creating a Constitutional amendment that would finally spell out the succession process and how a president could be deemed incapacitated.
