Sentence examples for took up the problems from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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".

Ten years later Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, and their colleagues at Oxford University took up the problem again They isolated penicillin in a form that was fairly pure (by standards then current) and demonstrated its potency and relative lack of toxicity.

Years later, PBS took up the problem of discarded chimps and showed Nim Chimsky, during a rare visit from the researcher who had raised him, running and leaping joyfully into the man's arms.

8. Berlin took up the problem of free will and determinism, and the related topic of the role of individual choice and agency in history, both indirectly, through an examination of Leo Tolstoy's philosophy of history (originally published 1951, republished with additions as The Hedgehog and the Fox 1953 and in 2008), and in (Historical Inevitability, 1954; republished in 2002b).