In his fictional role, Miguel Syjuco (who in real life and in the novel is a Filipino expatriate living in North America) undertakes to write a biography of Salvador.
He undertook to write a doctoral thesis with the aim of discovering if there exist any transitions between the three types of magnetism: ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, and diamagnetism.
Yet this same man, initially undertaking to write a headnote to one of his poems — poetry had been, after the failure of three successive novels, his only literary exercise for more than thirty years — found vigor enough to crowd onto a naval incident from 1797 most of what he felt about male beauty, human justice, cosmic injustice, and the Christ myth.
Capping off a professional lifetime, he undertook to write a small textbook for high-school seniors and undergrads explaining problems with Creationist explanations contesting evolution.
Some biographers have expressed surprise that he undertook to write a theological treatise, and Luther rudely insisted that Erasmus was simply out of his depth, incompetent as a theologian.
After months of growing separatist unrest, Houthis overran the capital of Sana'a last September, pressing the United Nations to broker a deal to establish a new government in November that would undertake to write a new constitution that would include several concessions to the rebel group.
I undertook to write an article in 2013 revealing the results, whether I won or lost.
From the Council, Nouriel Roubini and Niall Ferguson undertook to write an essay bringing together these key policy recommendations.
Bird reluctantly undertook to write such a book himself, based on his 1837 1838 lectures, and the result was Elements of Natural Philosophy, first published in 1839.
And there is the unsatisfied curiosity about who helped to write, or indeed undertook to write, some of the speeches.
