Sentence examples for unprecedented tasks from inspiring English sources

Restore and Revive, a Californian charity that encourages such schemes, lists a couple of dozen species that people are trying to retrieve from extinction, including the dodo and the woolly mammoth.For most of these projects DNA would have to be synthesised from scratch, or the DNA of a close relative edited: tricky unprecedented tasks, if currently possible at all.

The committee members deserve credit for carrying out the thankless and unprecedented task of disciplining a fellow senator.

This is a bold and unprecedented task, and the Moei River has become "more than a border between nations.

At the same time, he faces an unprecedented task in terms of reassuring an anxious city and capitalizing on the good will of the rest of the country.

The Jets wasted little time in tackling the unprecedented task of signing their four first-round draft picks, signing tight end Anthony Becht yesterday.

And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us.

B7 The Aftermath AN UNPRECEDENTED TASK -- New York City police detectives and other law enforcement officials have been scouring tons of debris carted from the trade center to a 165-acre landfill in Staten Island.

The sweeping overhaul of financial regulations passed into law last year requires agencies to write hundreds of rules, an unprecedented task, even as they grapple with the unfamiliar financial landscape left by the crisis.

After ruling Mexico since 1929, the party faces an unprecedented task: it must not only find new leaders, but a new identity and methods to sustain it in opposition.

"We recognise that the government is engaging with industry stakeholders but are not convinced that the level of engagement and expertise within government are commensurate with the scale of this unprecedented task, particularly given the government's commitment to trigger article 50 by the end of March 2017," wrote the Lords' EU internal market and EU external affairs sub-committees.

In order to undertake this unprecedented task, the majority has established standards for manual recounts -- a step that this court refused to take in an earlier case, presumably because there was no authority for such action and nothing in the record to guide the court in setting such standards.