Sentences with phrase «herculean challenges»

Coming up with compelling lore while honouring it and telling a great story are Herculean challenges in numerous other media, forget something like video games.

The story is based in part on a novel, in turn based on the true account of how Glass endured herculean challenges that included an angry bear, furious blizzards and greedy men to avenge wrongs perpetrated on him and his family.

I took on the Herculean challenge so that New Yorkers have choice.

An alternate tactic would be to completely fast every other day, but that becomes a herculean challenge because who wants to completely starve themselves every other day?

Performance Ann Dowd, Compliance The real - life story that inspired Compliance is so certifiably insane, such an apparent affront to common sense, that dramatizing it presented a Herculean challenge.

Nevertheless, the new iPad's specs are so dominant overall that Android tablets still face a Herculean challenge.

To undertake so Herculean a challenge, members of a World Heritage Committee convened in Belize early in 2015 to estimate how badly the reef has begun to deteriorate.

Not exact matches

To confront the challenge Tony Blair funked is noble, but it is Herculean... His courage is remarkable.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

It doesn't have to be a massive, herculean feat — the first challenge might just be to log in to the system for the first time.

In addition, while some students are well - served by schools that achieve herculean results amidst the most challenging circumstances, too many languish year after year in struggling schools.

It argues that the IPCC's «heroic days» of «Herculean work» are probably over, more frequent assessments focused on policy challenges are required, and the wider review of science made possible by the blogosphere can help: New Scientist says because the case for anthropogenic climate change is firmly established («the Nobel prize is won») the IPCC really needs to revision itself.

Convincing developers of an existing implementation can be politically challenging, and starting a new implementation from scratch is a herculean task.