Sentence examples for undertakings a from inspiring English sources

Alert and impeccable, Deitch is a low-key presence but a presence nonetheless, and also, in the sheer range of his undertakings, a somewhat contradictory one.

In many ways, it sums up the administration's more successful undertakings: a public-private venture focused on public space, ripe for change, with quality architecture as a social good.

(Such expeditions were not light undertakings: a 2006 book about the museum's dioramas, "Windows on Nature," by Stephen Christopher Quinn, features two pictures of Akeley heavily bandaged after ill-fated encounters with a leopard and an elephant. It was reportedly while he was recovering from the latter injury that he first envisioned the African Hall).

Now, the 70-year-old Energy secretary has turned toward helping Obama pursue another of his top second-term undertakings: a major international accord on climate change.

But a shuttle launch is still one of mankind's most complex and massive undertakings, a carefully-primed $1.3 billion event that turns years of planning and construction into a spectacle that lasts only a few minutes.

UNDERTAKING a major renovation or new construction without an architect to provide design know-how or detailed plans would seem to be the realm of either the foolish or the very handy.

"The Undertaking," a memoir of his experiences at Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors, forms the basis of a "Frontline" documentary of the same name to be shown tonight on PBS, and if there is a single trite sentiment in it — about grief, dying, disease, resignation, faith, consolation — it eluded me.

Under powers introduced in 2014, the SFO can offer a deferred prosecution agreement, a deal requiring high court approval, which includes fines and other undertakings with a cooperating company if such a course of action is considered to be in the public interest.

Edward Davey, the business minister with responsibility for corporate governance and company law, said: "These disqualification undertakings represent a successful conclusion to a lengthy and complex investigation into the collapse of MG Rover.

A middle and upper school for underprivileged kids, it's the kind of project where budgets are tight and options limited — a world away from such Hadid undertakings as a planned art center in Abu Dhabi and the flashy tower she's building for the headquarters of a Marseilles shipping company.

A middle and upper school for underprivileged kids, it's the kind of project where budgets are tight and options limited — a world away from such Hadid undertakings as a planned arts center in Abu Dhabi and the flashy tower she's building for the headquarters of a Marseilles shipping company.