Sentences with phrase «as herculean»

But most of the students irrespective of their age and grade feel essay writing as a herculean and troublesome job.

For reference, no other Warriors» player was better than plus - 50, and LeBron James, as Herculean a performance as he put on in the Finals, was minus - 6 for the series.

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As consumers, it's easy to take this information for granted, but make no mistake: It took a herculean effort from the Routehappy team to build this rich content marketplace and a truly disruptive approach to the industry standard.

At this stage, as long as conditions don't get materially worse (a rather herculean assumption perhaps, given the trade tensions along our southern border), we think Canadian stocks could start to finally attract some investor interest.

So, let's assume his team will try to present him as a sympathetic figure — in what will perhaps be a herculean legal effort — who had his company stolen from him.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross described the trade deal reached with China earlier this month as «pretty much a herculean accomplishment....

It does not require a Herculean leap of logic to ask, as i did, what other options does he have [that wouldn't waste Michigan's time].

This is a team that can not win without James working at herculean levels, and — as they showed in Game 2 — could well lose anyway.

Another cause of wrist injury, though not as frequent, is striking the ball with herculean force.

Rather fitting really, as Real Madrid need something of a Herculean effort.

As while Chelsea's form over the last couple of months has been nothing short of sublime, United have been imperious at home all season and it will take a herculean effort from any team to end their outrageous 30 - game unbeaten run at Old Trafford.

And just so we're all on the same page, I'm not even saying that working as a mom is some Herculean task, or that moms who ~ juggle it all ~ are anomalies who deserve parades.

While we have substantial doubt that the President would not have loved to be the one indicating in clear terms where money will come from to fund this herculean promise if indeed a credible source has been as, we will eagerly await the said budget statement to find out this and many more.

Add to that Blankenship's willingness to savage Mitch McConnell as «Cocaine Mitch» and call the father of his wife, Elaine Chao, a «Chinaperson,» and it would take a Herculean amount of strength for the Senate majority leader and his supporters not to get sucked into a fight against one of their own.

It became a very herculean task for him as he lost soo much weight satisfying the goddess and she wouldn't let him stop till he started bleeding from the pe * is.

If the Democrats protect all of their incumbents (currently none are engaged in particularly competitive re-elections) and win five of the seven targets listed above — an enormous, almost herculean task — Sen. Audrey Gibson of Jacksonville will serve as president of the Senate in 2018 - 20.

The Chancellor has little room for manoeuvre as he ploughs ahead with the Herculean task of eliminating the deficit over the next four years.

In a sense, the postop bacterial changes are not surprising, says endocrinologist David Cummings at the University of Washington, Seattle, (although he notes it's a «herculean feat» to manage gastric bypass surgery in animals as tiny as mice).

As recently as the 1970s, deaf children, myself included, had their hands slapped and tied behind their backs as they struggled with the Herculean task of reproducing the sounds of, for them, an unnatural language that they had never hearAs recently as the 1970s, deaf children, myself included, had their hands slapped and tied behind their backs as they struggled with the Herculean task of reproducing the sounds of, for them, an unnatural language that they had never hearas the 1970s, deaf children, myself included, had their hands slapped and tied behind their backs as they struggled with the Herculean task of reproducing the sounds of, for them, an unnatural language that they had never hearas they struggled with the Herculean task of reproducing the sounds of, for them, an unnatural language that they had never heard.

This is sad, horrifying and often gruesome, but it is a story worth hearing as Aronson gives us a sense of the confusing, painful and Herculean effort involved in the most basic identification.

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

As any parent can attest, getting our little ones to eat anything, let alone healthy foods, often requires a Herculean effort worthy of its own book or movie.

Computer algorithms have the herculean task of returning a perfect match from its database based on our own vaguely truthful submissions, and such copper - bottomed compatibility guarantees as whether both parties are fond of cats.

Creating this comprehensive anti-scam watchdog system to protect and serve our members is a Herculean task as well as a significant financial investment.

Even as Cecil lives his life slightly adjacent to history, building a heroic film around him requires herculean effort.

But for all the heartbreak that pumps through it, Kenneth Lonergan's ambitious third feature isn't some miserable slog: Anchored by a career - best performance from Affleck, who achieves the herculean feat of making emotional unavailability compelling, Manchester By The Sea is often as flat - out funny as it is wrenching.

The boys did not complete their herculean venture — pub (and pint) No. 9 exhausted even the limits of adolescent endurance — and over the succeeding 20 + years they've moved on to marriage, divorce, kids, and careers as lawyers or car salesmen or real estate agents.

In fact, there's nothing «average» about Garland's near Herculean effort to adapt VanderMeer's novel, a novel many consider rightly unfilmable as written.

Frank is likable enough with his awkward quips and lascivious nature, but he just can't hold a candle to Chuck — his desperation to save his daughter and herculean efforts to rescue as many people as he could were far more compelling.

These moments of friction are acted and written so incredibly well and are so powerful that it becomes a herculean task to hold back tears as you watch.

Bilginer rises to the occasion; while underappreciated outside of his native country and the U.K. (American audiences may know him best as the bad guy in «Ishtar»), the Herculean task of carrying this movie should leave no doubt about his skill.

The film focuses on the Herculean efforts of pastor Jay Reinke, who has turned his church into a makeshift home base for the new arrivals — to the chagrin of the facility's neighbours, who are skeptical about the men's scruffy appearance and possible criminal backgrounds, and the open hostility of the town newspaper, which wages war on Reinke's new congregation by publishing a list of former sex offenders harboured in the church as well as in the pastor's own home.

That Herculean task fell to Mr. Bellman after the Ohio Supreme Court in November ordered mediation as a way to end the state's long - running school finance case.

(As proof of the vicissitudes of the judicial enterprise, the actual article in the state constitution that formed the basis of this conclusion, and the Herculean struggles surrounding the CFE suit, contain these 26 words: «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»)

Sen. Vincent Fort called the legislation a «blatant corruption of power» that «trotted out» school children as «pawns to pad the pockets of for - profit management companies and real estate deals» supported by a «Herculean» lobbying effort that, Fort told the Senate, was «drenched in money mongering.»

This task continues to be a herculean effort as Manville Borough remains one of the most underfunded school districts in the entire state of New Jersey.

So let's look at how you can accomplish this Herculean feat, with as little pain as possible, have a much better website experience in the long run, and feel good about doing the right thing for all your school website visitors.

Popular new models such as the Ram 1500, 2500, and 3500 are among the favorites of our York and Lancaster PA patrons, as they proffer that superlative durability and herculean - like strength you'd expect from Ram, while catering to drivers» and their occupants» desire for comfort with premium - feeling interiors.

At this stage, as long as conditions don't get materially worse (a rather herculean assumption perhaps, given the trade tensions along our southern border), we think Canadian stocks could start to finally attract some investor interest.

As long as conditions don't get materially worse (a rather herculean assumption perhaps, given the trade tensions along the southern border), we believe Canadian stocks could start to post some better numbers on the boardAs long as conditions don't get materially worse (a rather herculean assumption perhaps, given the trade tensions along the southern border), we believe Canadian stocks could start to post some better numbers on the boardas conditions don't get materially worse (a rather herculean assumption perhaps, given the trade tensions along the southern border), we believe Canadian stocks could start to post some better numbers on the boards.

We wish only the best for the Humane Society of Tulsa as they begin their Herculean task.

As we undertake this potentially Herculean task (depending on the winter harshness you and your pets endured), it's vitally important to recognize the potential toxic effects household cleaning products may have on our pets.

As such, the only hope for escape is to ascend through a hundred levels of the game, with the designer promising freedom to anyone who succeeds at this herculean task.

A quest that would normally take minutes to complete, instead feels like a Herculean - effort, as you meticulously work to piece together the answer you seek.

But in its core function, what the Azure Network does is it provides a widespread and stable option for developers to rely on as opposed the default situation where developers are faced with the expensive and herculean task of sorting out their own network of dedicated servers.

In terms of actual gameplay, Warframe is as smooth as butter, but figuring out how all of the game's ancillary elements function can be a herculean effort, especially if you're a brand new player.

While the lightsaber controls start off promising, as the Kinect does a herculean job at actually reading your arms» movements to a respectable degree of fidelity, you'll quickly find out there's absolutely no depth nor strategy involved when it comes to the game's combat mechanics.

Maintaining gestural painting's relevance in contemporary culture while also rooting its chief sources of inspiration from within the Western canon is a Herculean task, particularly as the very practice of painting as a discipline continues to erode within the art market, art schools, and public art institutions like museums.

Whatever the facts, Blachly and Shaw's roles as the delusional guardians of an almost certainly nonexistent archive have allowed them to employ a dizzying array of often contradictory strategies, layering irony, and apparent incompetence on sincere historical inquiry and emotion to create disorienting and comical experiences that leave viewers tantalizingly unsure as to the meaning or ultimate purpose of the Chadwicks» often Herculean efforts.

A herculean, and very laudible effort is being made, but the resources that institutions such as NOAA have available, are simply overwhelmed by all the tasks that are required, once the decision is made to abandon the * raw * data, and begin to massage it for the purpose of «standardization».