Sentences with phrase «year herculean»

Once the decision was made in 2009 to feature the Alamosaurus at the new facility, Tykoski recalls it was a three - year Herculean effort to get the vertebrae ready for the Museum's debut.

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With infrastructure spending priorities and upcoming negotiations with public - sector unions, improving the budgetary outlook by $ 4 billion per year for two consecutive years would seem a Herculean task.

Chasing 3,5 and twin 12 year old children and managing our home without help is a herculean task.

To change minds and add 11 % to your vote within 5 years isn't just a Herculean task — it is unprecedented in British politics.

«After two decades of dithering by government officials and four years of herculean drilling, pounding, hauling and lifting by 7,000 workers, a new 3.1 - mile bridge is set to open at the Tappan Zee in the early hours of Saturday, the first crossing on that scale that has been built in the New York region in more than half a century.»

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

We are no longer intimidated by his alleged treasure trove of arcane secrets, the ones he accrued by years of study and herculean sacrifice.

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.

That teeny - tiny, very sick preemie is now a horse vet in Virginia, and her survival is in no small part due to the herculean efforts of the 75 - year - old March of Dimes.

Even through all of my training programs over the years, I have never amassed the hulking physique and Herculean strength to compete at that level, but thankfully, strongman training is not solely reserved for the uber - athletes on television.

However, it is to be borne in mind that the over 40 dating segment is growing at an unprecedented rate over the last 10 years and connecting with over 40 singles is no longer a herculean task.

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

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.

One of the biggest reasons to despair of the movie coming together is that series stars like Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, and John Hawkes have become bigger and much busier names in the years since, which makes lining up their schedules a Herculean task.

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.»

I spent three years following an elementary / middle school in Newark and was consistently struck by the herculean effort exerted by the principal and his staff, and the extensive time required just to show incremental progress.

Delegates heard from NEA Education Support Professional (ESP) of the Year Doreen McGuire - Grigg, who spoke of the herculean efforts of ESPs throughout the nation.

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.

But, sadly, despite the herculean efforts of shelter staff around the country, there just aren't enough homes for all the kittens that are born every year.

Hoffman describes the Herculean task involved, from bringing those shelters and groups on board — using various incentives and other means — to lining up further underwriting; over the years, Maddie's Fund has poured some $ 30 million in grants.

We basically started a complete redesign of the campaign about a year and a half in, a very silly Herculean effort.

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.

Each year, the New York Times art critical team takes on the Herculean task of assembling an end - of - year round up of the most noteworthy aesthetic experiences of the year.

Even worse were the Herculean efforts of Dr. Georg Beck (http://tinyurl.com/2ebtvnj) in reconstructing the atmospheric levels of CO2 extending back 180 years.

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.

They say we are on a track to cross that line in a handful of years, and once we cross that line, going back to where we need to be to feed our population becomes a Herculean task.

The Lancaster London's herculean efforts to promote sustainability and awareness of green issues through leading by example have gained them wide recognition within the industry, along with top awards including: «Considerate Hotel of the Year», «Visit London Award for Sustainable Tourism» and «Silver Award from Green Tourism for London» to name a few.

These are the people whose herculean efforts produced stand - out performances in green this year.

It was through Herculean efforts that the library was rebuilt over the years that followed and became the location that it is today.

Getting Westlaw registered as a trademark in China has been a Herculean task spanning ten years.

Late last year, lawyers at Gowling WLG were approached by a client with a seemingly herculean task: break down a large data set of contracts and find out exactly what was in each one.

On top of that, Samsung has put programmable buttons on the sides of its Galaxy Active phones for years, so it's not like this is a herculean task to accomplish.

Blitzer, 23, plans to produce the documentary and have it ready for release by January, a herculean task considering such films typically take at least two years to make.

Try as they might, organizations have been trying to get a handle on «culture fit» for years and years, with some standout companies going to herculean efforts to get it right.

I'd like to particularly thank our A-Team members (Appropriations - Team) for their herculean efforts over the past year.