It would be hard work, but it was achievable.
When I dreamed up this project I had imagined that it would be hard work.
"It seemed to me that devotion to the cause would be hard work and leave little time for the pleasant frivolities which I was enjoying so much".
This would be hard work if the inter-weaving of biography, investigation and geopolitics were not so elegant.Many a reader will wonder about the future of Baku, a century after Lev's birth.
If done properly, such oversight would be hard work and politically risky, because many ordinary Americans seem not that fussed about vapourising suspected Islamic extremists in far-away countries.
Mr. Kramer said he hoped the European Union and Russia could agree on a regulatory framework to give investors in South Stream an adequate return, but achieving that would be "hard work on the sides of all parties".
So moving in the right direction in terms of carbon emissions would be hard work, because the population is rising, and so is the national income — there are more people, and they have more to spend.
It's a great summer to be the owner of a horse like Harzand, who can plough through conditions that would be hard work for almost any other three-year-old.
Mr. Carroll acknowledged that it would be hard work to "change the way we do our business," but called it a necessary response to the profound shifts in media, consumer behavior and technology that are remaking the advertising landscape.
It would be hard work to raise that kind of money later on for a facility in Arkansas, and that probably explains the president's willingness to compete with Mr. Gore for time and top billing among wealthy donors at the convention.
I knew this would be hard work, but I thought the hard work would be teaching.
