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How to use the word undertaking in a Sentence? Page #3

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We have started projects: health, sewerage, medical, agricultural projects, and local municipality services, now, the local municipalities are undertaking a project to asphalt the roads in all the cities of the region.

Akram Hasso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now, the local municipalities are undertaking a project to asphalt the roads in all the cities of the region.

Akram Hasso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need an open and honest debate about UK involvement in Iraq and Syria, we can't have that, though, until the U.K. comes clean about what actions its personnel are already undertaking.

Jennifer Gibson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They are undertaking a fuller assessment of the site and will initiate an investigation, and working with the company to ensure safety and environmental requirements are met.

Peter Murchland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’re viewing this as the opening skirmish in a broader campaign that Tallahassee is undertaking to completely redefine the state parks.

Jono Miller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For now, we prefer dialogue. We are not undertaking the strike route yet. We are trying to calm people.

Richard Rakotovao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The coalition will continue to prevent the movement of Houthi militias from moving or undertaking any operations inside Yemen.

Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every jurisdiction is different, a very remote jurisdiction with very low crime, very low drug abuse, they probably need help for the Saturday rodeo. It just depends. Trying to apply a one-sized fits all approach is a mistaken undertaking.

Jonathan Thompson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The country was preoccupied with fulfilling its basic needs in the past. Now it has become ambitious and is undertaking massive infrastructure projects by itself.

Abel Abate Demissie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

One option would be a bolt-on business in the UK, like an insurance arm, to build the brand here. A new territory is a bigger undertaking.

Mike Butler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's an online business that really does only one thing. Competitors such as eBay and Gumtree could impact that, one option would be a bolt-on business in the UK, like an insurance arm, to build the brand here. A new territory is a bigger undertaking.

Mike Butler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These guys are freelancing, for these purposes I don't see them as private individuals except that because they are members of Congress it actually has greater potential to interfere with the successful undertaking of negotiations. It actually cuts the other way.

Peter Spiro

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If your economy is cratering you cannot support the kind of foreign adventures that Putin is undertaking. You cannot support the kind of security state structure that he has generated and that he needs to keep him there, he will have to trim his behavior to reflect the decline in the Russian economy.

Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To explore the whole moon at the level of detail required, that's a big undertaking, but long term, we should be keeping an open mind to that.

Ian Crawford

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are undertaking this exploration of the San Francisco Bay in part to learn more about its maritime heritage as well as to test recent advances in technology that will allow us to better protect and understand the rich stories found beneath the Bay’s waters.

James Delgado

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are undertaking this exploration of the San Francisco Bay in part to learn more about its maritime heritage as well as to test recent advances in technology that will allow us to better protect and understand the rich stories found beneath the Bay's waters.

James Delgado

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert H. Schuller

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

Bharavi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.

Ayn Rand

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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