Sentences with phrase «doing herculean»

We were hacked HARD, says Lori — tons of images deleted, it's just a mess, and everyone (including our new hosting service) is doing Herculean work to get it all put back together, but in the meantime, we're not gonna leave you hanging for your weekly fix: you can right - click download this week's INSUFFERABLE at either the CBZ or PDF links, your choice!

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«What it means is you've hired the right people, but they're trying to do a Herculean task.»

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.

The developers have done a Herculean task of assembling these thousands of links from jurisdictions worldwide and organizing them in a way that lets you find them with just a few clicks.

Not exact matches

Certifying the safety of all those home, apartments, yurts and treehouses would be a herculean task, but it's more than mere logistics keeping Airbnb from doing more.

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.

But Martin Geck, now nearing the end of his career at the University of Dortmund, doesn't seem intimidated by Herculean tasks.

I realize the death of Christendom Hart relays does not equate to the end of Christianity in the public square, but it surely must relegate Christianity to an «also ran» among competing creeds in the new order, making the mission of First Things a more Herculean task.

Work mornings can be difficult: needing a Herculean task to get out of bed but a cup of coffee and a warm muffin out the oven can surely do the trick.

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].

He did it by shooting at the most efficient clip of any 30 - points - per - game scorer in Finals history, proving he's a deserved champion despite LeBron's Herculean effort.

To get it (the budget) done early was a herculean task.»

But voters are split, 45 - 42, on whether Cuomo will be able to make a dent in the herculean task of cleaning up at the Capitol, in part because they don't believe (57 - 33) that the Legislature will cooperate.

From alleged indiscipline in the President's government, to the Herculean task of defending his administration, and so on, Momodu said the Buhari government had done badly by regularly feeding the people with «impotent» excuses.

The Democrat called it a «Herculean task» to get the budget done before lawmakers headed home before the holiday weekend.

It has done amazing, Herculean work.

Herculean conservation efforts — carving out nature reserves, establishing captive breeding programs, pumping water into swamps in dry years — have done little to shore up the tortoise's future in the wild, which is why Mitchell and her colleagues have turned to assisted colonization.

laments Stinson, given the Herculean effort required to do so.

«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.

So take responsibility by asking yourself, «Does this really require a herculean effort or am I seeking approval?»

It's already a herculean effort to do anything other than fall down in front of the TV at the end of the day.

Work worth doing, for sure, but I rolled up my sleeves and got ready to put in a Herculean amount of effort for a Hercules - sized dream.

So we had to do the work of building the cut to Quentin's specifications, which, in the time we had, was going to be a near - Herculean task unto itself, and then we had to get it down to a reasonable length.

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.

It is a herculean effort to collect and distribute sports information for high schools and middle schools across the U.S., but this site somehow does it.

But often, in spite of Herculean effort by teachers and administrators, it does not.

Schools and teachers may indeed be making a Herculean effort to raise reading scores, but these efforts do little to improve reading achievement and to prepare children for college, a career, and a lifetime of productive, engaged citizenship.

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.

And with the right tools, designing a rigorous and effective test preparation program for your school or classroom doesn't have to be a Herculean effort.

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.

During my first few miles with it, I found myself pushing too hard on a clutch pedal that didn't need anything close to a Herculean stomp.

Branding, platform, marketing, advertising — all those crazy «buzzwords» — don't sound so crazy when you are faced with the herculean task of trying to get someone to notice you, your book, and actually you know, sell your book.

But sometimes, those startups don't get to fully experience the fruits of their herculean labors.

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 boards.

Marketing, however, does not necessarily require a lot of time, money or Herculean effort.

In addition to their Herculean efforts to protect the interests of travel professionals in ways most travel professionals do not fully appreciate, ASTA does some fairly impressive research.

Obviously they have done quite to alot to put them where they are in this two man race and it was going to take a Herculean effort on the games to get them out of it.

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.

I have put thousands of hours into FFXI and WoW, and maxed out in the latter (since it didn't involve herculean feats of time and coordination and effort to level up past 40 or 50 or whatever it was), but I never BEAT them.

The PS4 automatically records the last 15 minutes worth of play, so if you manage to pull off a herculean feat, you don't have to worry about having missed it.

It is a Herculean effort to pull this book together each year and have it ready by Artexpo, but somehow my team ALWAYS does it.

Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses calligraphic black and white marks against the white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.

Specifically, they say that humanity «must begin now to move toward the era beyond fossil fuels», and «the most difficult task, phase - out over the next 20 - 25 years of coal use that does not capture CO2, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II.

Despite China's herculean efforts to expand grain output, several trends are now converging that make it harder to do so.

What should be clear after reading this eBook, is that it doesn't take a herculean marketing effort to be successful in a solo practice.

Even when we caveat like crazy, audiences (me included) take away a smooth, pretty picture that doesn't do justice to messy reality [by the same token, I think we tend to underappreciate the Herculean efforts of true change agents].

«When producing a show, making art seems like a Herculean task and often doesn't leave much time for anything else,» says Migas.

Purchasing the right auto insurance policy could be quite a herculean task if you don't know where to begin.