Sentence examples for undertakings including from inspiring English sources

Over the years, I've read small news items in the papers about similarly earnest undertakings, including helicopters, biplanes, robots, and so on.

The offence would cover all "undertakings", including schools, hospital trusts, partnerships and charities, and all other organisations with staff, rather than just "incorporated companies".

It became the launching pad for all his other ambitious public undertakings, including the 29 dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority that were to follow.And yet the Hoover itself was no great creator of jobs.

Before the modern period, religion was not a separate activity, hermetically sealed off from all others; rather, it permeated all human undertakings, including economics, state-building, politics and warfare.

Roger brought his trademark brilliance and distinction to all his undertakings, including the assembly of one of the largest collections of American classic literature; his accomplishments as a gourmet chef; his avid studies of architecture, landscape architecture, history, politics and sports; and leadership in the sport of purebred dogs.

Evaluation concerns different kinds of undertakings, including research programmes [28, 29, 30] and foresight studies which are implemented in a form of projects or programme [16].

It is thought that News Corp's undertakings include the possibility of an independent editorial board which would oversee the output of Sky News and its team of well-known presenters such as Adam Boulton, Dermot Murnaghan and Kay Burley.

His major undertakings included finishing Prestes Maia's street-building plans, straightening the Tietê and Pinheiros rivers, and building hydroelectric projects to meet the city's insatiable appetite for power.

His many impressive undertakings included the creation in 1943 of a Dictionary of United States Army Terms and the editing of the three-volume The New Century Cyclopedia of Names (1954; with William D. Halsey), The World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary (1963), and ongoing issues of The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (with his son David K. Barnhart).

Other undertakings include the United Nations Global Fundd to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and "The 3 by 5 Initiative," a detailed, multicountry plan developed by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to provide antiretroviral treatment to 3 million HIV-infected persons in developing countries by the end of 2005.

They sent the Mayor a letter of grievance and began organizing ceremonies of their own — interfaith undertakings that included, but did not rely on the hospitality of, their Abrahamic counterparts.