Sentence examples for was a grim task from inspiring English sources

For much of the past 20 years, counting redds here was a grim task; by 2000, the population of Atlantic salmon here had fallen so low that they were declared an endangered species in eight Maine rivers.

It is a grim task, explaining to Iranians precisely who is responsible for what share of their suffering, but sanctioning in silence is a terrible alternative.

It's been a grim task, with most of the remains being found as just bones or bone fragments.

The director of China's narcotics control bureau warned last week that the country was facing "a grim task in curbing synthetic drugs", particularly methamphetamines.

"China is facing a grim task in curbing synthetic drugs, including 'ice,' which more and more of China's drug addicts tend to use," he said, using the street name for crystal methamphetamine, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.

Once the rescue operations were complete, a grim task awaited the rescuers.

Theirs was a grim and increasingly hopeless task: looking for broken bodies in an apocalyptic wasteland of liquid mining waste.

That was a grim, grim day.

It was a grim kind of tourism.

It was a grim and chaotic scene.

It was a grim and tense backdrop for negotiation.