Sentence examples for took up the problem from inspiring English sources

The UN also took up the problem of defining aggression, a task attempted unsuccessfully by the League of Nations.

Several mathematicians at the University of Göttingen, notably the great Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 1855), then took up the problem.

In particular, in 1855 he took up the problem of explaining an unusual characteristic of the motion of Mercury.

In "Catastrophe: Risk and Response" (2004), he took up the problem of low-probability, high-impact events.

At that time he took up the problem that occupied almost all his life: the problem of constructing an all-metal dirigible with an adjustable envelope.

Having entered prison as an atheist with a moral-relativist bent, Genis next took up the problem of good and evil, scouring Pascal, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, "Crime and Punishment," and Knut Hamsun's "Hunger".

A diplomat from another small island nation suggested that Tuvalu may have decided that now was a good time to join the United Nations, which took up the problems of small island states at a special assembly session last fall.

A number of works also took up the problems facing parts of Africa, including the well-received paperback release of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation, written when the author was 23, and Dave Eggers Whatt Is the What, the story of a Sudanese refugee who flees on foot for Ethiopia, eventually ending up in the U.S. The bottom line for books didn't look so bad this year either.

In "Why We Do It," the eminent paleontologist Niles Eldredge, of the American Museum of Natural History, takes up the problem.

France has taken up the problem as a social and political issue.

If your boss, the MP, behaves badly, you are expected to take up the problem about your boss, with your boss.