Sentence examples for uncertain undertaking from inspiring English sources

If not, each species would need to be managed separately – a much more uncertain undertaking, especially when we don't even know some species are there.

The first insult was a detached retina, followed twenty or so years later by glaucoma, which progressively made the daily commute from his apartment, in the East Sixties, to his office in the East Fifties, an uncertain undertaking.

The Democrats' Affordable Care Act is, by any measure, a "large-scale, complicated, highly uncertain" undertaking, and while it relies on private sector insurance, it has huge public-sector components.

– The matter of attribution, as raised in the second to last paragraph, is a much broader science that merely determining the change in probability due to greenhouse-gas forcing….which is an inherently difficult and uncertain undertaking.

Estimating historical exposures to a cohort for use in an epidemiological study is generally a very difficult and uncertain undertaking.

From 12 bc, Lugdunum (Lyon), with other mints of uncertain identity, undertook the main western coinages in gold, silver, and bronze.

And although many respondents (20%%) consider the future situation too uncertain to undertake adaptation actions, the reason for not having adapted among believers of climate change is most often related to the lack of knowledge on how to adapt rather than to uncertainty about the climate change per se.

"What impact this has on the local biology is currently uncertain and we are undertaking bird counts and analysing the algae colonising the newly formed ice to better understand the impact of expanding sea ice.

With enough effort, it probably would be possible to develop Screening Set STRPs with higher average heterozygosities for populations such as Native Americans, but the practicality of such an undertaking is uncertain.

Eight test cases were constructed and an ensemble of USHCN analyses were undertaken, varying uncertain parameters within the algorithm.

An old couple undertake an uncertain quest, on which they are joined by an ageing, battle-weary Sir Gawain, as Ishiguro pursues his customary themes of memory and forgetting, national narratives and individual identity.