How To Use Undertake In A Sentence

Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
Many of them had not undertaken even the leaving certificate or the academic entry qualifications necessary to enter university.
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
If you will undertake the affair, I shall be very grateful.
The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route. Times, Sunday Times

The pragmatic differentiation between classificatory, potential and actual affines is undertaken in accordance with the proscriptive principles described above, and is framed within a consubstantial conception of relatedness.
So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
To undertake more sophisticated legal work through on - hands trainings.
In the hope of getting a fair deal, you should press him to undertake the most careful inquiry into the facts.
The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to.
The extent to which the carrier has to undertake the loading of the vessel may depend not only upon different systems of law but upon the custom and practice of the port and the nature of the cargo.
Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
Women engine fitters also undertake major overhauls on liquid- and air-cooled motors and instruction is given in the maintenance of variable-pitch airscrews.
But, Dorothea," he said, remonstrantly, "you can't undertake to manage a man's life for him in that way. Middlemarch
The necessity that the article imagines to this, feasibility and established means to undertake analytics card.
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A study was undertaken in co-operation with oil companies to propose optimum data acquisition techniques and formation evaluation procedures.
Certain functions are best undertaken or coordinated at a regional level, so regions will always be required.
The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
Next month he undertakes the role of Siegmund a baritonal tenor role sung here last year by PlÃ¡cido Domingo in Robert Lepage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Die WalkÅ±re. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
Urban arterial road is the main undertaker for the urban transportation. The transportation capacity can be improved by combining and controlling many intersections in one trunk road.
They are also massively supported by volunteers who undertake thousands of hours of unpaid labour. Times, Sunday Times
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.
Students are required to undertake simple experiments.
How willing were abolitionists to challenge both the accepted ways of acting publicly and by whom the action should be undertaken?
It features a cast of 26 people and is one of the biggest festival productions undertaken in recent years.
Students also undertake company projects to gain experience of issues facing actual businesses. Times, Sunday Times
The Access Economics study undertaken shortly before construction began indicated it would be commercially viable, at least with the not inconsiderable investment of public funds in constructing the line.
The work on double stars had been undertaken as a continuation of his father's work which attempted to measure the parallax of a star.
Projects already undertaken for pharmaceutical customers have involved removal of plant and equipment contaminated with low-levels of radioactivity and other hazardous materials.
She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
The bill requires owners to undertake remedial work on dilapidated buildings.
John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton.
An outline of some of the domestic chores undertaken by Mr and Mrs McGill will help to answer this question.
Straight after the funeral the undertaker gave us all the paperwork and had it in a folder for us, and said this was for our keeping, just to look at later.
Many of the steps undertaken in such a restructuring will be identifiable from records filed at Companies House. Computing
No state in its right mind would undertake such responsibilities.
What varies, and varies dramatically, is the conscious effort with which they are identified and undertaken.
The present study was therefore undertaken to compare the distribution of the three islet cell types in the native and in isolated islets of rats and monkeys by immunocytochemistry.
This includes the use of erythropoietin, surgical techniques that minimise blood loss, and drugs that inhibit fibrinolysis; greater degrees of anaemia are tolerated, and phlebotomy undertaken for diagnostic testing is minimal.
If practice is undertaken for mental or spiritual gain, that intention will determine the results.
Treaty signatories also undertake not to dump or allow other states to dump radioactive materials or wastes in the zone of coverage.
The value of the work undertaken by informal carers is difficult to estimate with precision.
When people decide to undertake an initiative, they naively think that all they have to do is go out and collect the requisite number of signatures and then presto you're on the ballot-wrong.
In recent years considerable research has been undertaken to build computer models of asset performance and returns and their correlation with liabilities.
Or, in the case of a consent order, the wife might undertake to pay for repairs.
A similar exercise is being undertaken in Skipton, although the two projects are unrelated.
He sustained injuries to his back and was thereafter only able to undertake light work.
It should be noted that it was only following the LTTE blocking of water supply to the East at the Mavilaru anicut, that the Government was compelled to undertake military operations against the LTTE in order to protect the civilian population and vital strategic assets including the Trincomalee Port. Asian Tribune
This is a general contractual principle - whenever anyone undertakes to secure a particular end, failure to do so is breach of contract.
We can't undertake that you will make a profit.
He said a major marketing exercise will now be undertaken once the work had started and the anticipated completion date is for early 2002.
This includes offering positions to students who undertake internships in the summer vacation of their second year at university. Times, Sunday Times
Most times, the journeys were undertaken in search of better opportunities; twice he was on the lam from the golfing authorities. Singh's world tour ends at Augusta
Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It isn't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places.
What led you to undertake the reinstallation, and what do you hope to accomplish?
Rather, it adds a new element, which is that the testator's son alone is to undertake liability.
To undertake such intervention, governments needed a degree of independence or autonomy from any particular branch or fraction of capital.
Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
With limited exceptions, it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area.
The present investigation has been undertaken to evaluate the spasmolytic and other pharmacological activities of the extract of this plant, in order to establish an ethnopharmacological basis for its use in traditional medicine. Chapter 7
He said the charity has taken on a serious commitment and undertaken a legal obligation with the NHS trust.
Grann's article describes a retracing of Fawcett's route undertaken earlier this year, with the aid of modern motor vehicles and aluminum boats.
After a few years of operating with these expectations in view, departments would undertake self-assessments of their contributions and submit the results to their various deans.
The treasurer gave the financial account of the past year and the secretary gave an account of the yearly work undertaken and all officers were re-elected.
Some farms do, however, need to undertake large capital schemes to satisfy the regulations.
Ingenious said: 'These film sale and leaseback partnerships have undertaken commercial film investment. Times, Sunday Times
Our mission is three-fold: To undertake basic research to advance knowledge for its own sake.
Why not undertake a challenge together, such as rock climbing or parachuting from a plane? Times, Sunday Times
He attempted to envisage and explain the incredible feat of navigation undertaken by Captain Bligh after the Mutiny.
The apostolic visitation is going to be too little, too late, if the bishops and priests of the Church in the United States do not recognize what has happened and undertake their grave pastoral obligation to correct the errors of these communities. Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy
The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
The astronomer royal declared himself more than willing to undertake responsibility for the work.
Chapter 3 will then undertake a similar examination of individual political action and of the activities of groups in the political world.
S6 pupils also undertake a dissertation on a subject of their own choice such as Roman Law, philosophy, etc.
We undertake a case concerning major shareholder flight of capital contribution.
It was not undertaken to support, refute or criticize contemporary urban and regional theory.
Thompson, who impresses with his vigour, drive and forthrightness, should not be hung out to dry for doing what, in all honesty, any new owner would have undertaken.
The Yang Yuanqing that holds the position of CEO afresh says frankly, the task is " ensure the growth of Chinese market and gain, overseas undertakes large-scale structure recombines " .
The development of this orbital facility has been called the largest international scientific and technological endeavor ever undertaken.
Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
Set sticking ceramic tile is technical very strong job, cannot be engaged in cursorily , must undertake strictly according to operating sequence.
And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
So it is a reasonable guess that most companies will remain reluctant to undertake big new projects. Times, Sunday Times
It shows a huge disparity between the number missing and investigations undertaken. Times, Sunday Times
In other words the Greek seems to encompass a profound complexity of meaning as regards the placement (if that is the right word) of the head cloth, napkin, or, in fact, the σουδαριον/sudarium (in essence the same word, evidently a technical term in the repertoire of near eastern undertakers in Roman-occupied Palestine). Archive 2009-04-01
The youngsters undertake a wide range of activities as well as all sorts of tests and examinations, to find out about their hearing, sight, co-ordination, breathing and many other things.
Mr Howard said: ‘The work has to be undertaken for safety reasons alone, but we have to make sure we alleviate problems for others, otherwise it's going to be absolutely bedlam.’
Some institutions have undertaken to provide the participants with caps and T-shirts.
A major survey of the walls was undertaken last year: and ideas being considered include opening stretches of the wall at night, putting up more railings, and having new waymarked routes and better information signs.
His TV face was once likened to an undertaker's assistant. The Sun
The condition was not taken seriously for many years and proper research has been undertaken only recently. Times, Sunday Times
‘At the same time, the Physical Plant has undertaken a number of efficiency improvements and retrofits in the past three years, to its credit,’ Moring said.
Clause 70 of the previous Bill required the undertakers to install monitoring apparatus to monitor water level and quality for infectious diseases.
Put briefly, the rigorous econometric analysis undertaken by these four scholars led them to conclude that "to the extent that counterinsurgent forces engage in unpopular and aggressive operations that generate specific local grievances, they are likely to facilitate increased recruitment and support for insurgent groups. Jay Mandle: War Does Not Promote Democracy
So bold an enterprise, so boldly undertaken, is bound to provoke not merely thought but dissent.
Under cross-examination from Botha's advocate Lappe Laubscher, Van Zyl said while Tutu initially attempted to accommodate Botha by allowing him to respond to questions in writing, he had never undertaken to indefinitely "immunise" him from testifying. ANC Daily News Briefing
They may also lie on beds of nails, walk on fire and undertake other penances to build character and atone for sins.
As a consequence of the suggestion Laureen Williamson was approached and readily agreed to undertake the daunting task.
Protective measures: CDC recommends that travelers to areas of risk undertake chemoprophylaxis with chloroquine in addition to personal protective measures. Mexico - travelers's summary profile
He soon realized the scale of the task he had undertaken .
Some limited laboratory and clinical tests undertaken at Bayer led to the belief that it was slightly too toxic to be acceptable.
This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions.
Chapter 3 will then undertake a similar examination of individual political action and of the activities of groups in the political world.
In the years since, local lawmakers have undertaken a number of attempts to rechristen the District's governing institutions. Why does the D.C. Council have 13 members?
The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. Betrayed
They can generally undertake big surveys involving large numbers of people and they provide statistics and interpretations of them.
He was also ordered to undertake 150 hours unpaid work and to pay the £1,000 compensation to YorkBoat.
This was by way of elaboration of his first statement, which dealt with the scope of the repainting undertaken using white and green paint.
That was a project undertaken by Sandy Plotnikoff, one of the six Canadian artists currently exhibited at the Taikang Art Museum.
Students can choose to undertake a consulting project as the final part of their course. Times, Sunday Times
Like any other form of testing, security testing involves determining who should do it and what activities they should undertake.
We can't undertake that you will make a profit.
They are also urging the county to undertake a feasibility study to see if a ring road or bypass could be built for the town.
All small appliances such as food mixers and juicers can be permanently housed there, with messy, noisy work undertaken out of sight.
It said lay people were not allowed to read the Gospel or give the sermon - and laicised priests were not to undertake any liturgical ‘office or duty’.
I've undertaken the task of making a mug of coffee twice today and on both occasions the act of removing the tight pull off lid has resulted in a shower of excess coffee granules all over me and the floor.
We are, after all, performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis.
But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
Medieval agriculture was undertaken by peasants who of course constituted the overwhelming majority of the total population.
There was a lack of detail in many areas, such as, if the expedition is well into Amazonia, and are totally spent and half-dead from starvation and disease, how did they get out in order that they undertake the next expedition? Reader reviews of The Lost City of Z by David Grann.
My friend and teacher, Mr. Lowes, after a temporary absence from Newcastle, had returned to it to undertake the editorship of the _Newcastle Journal_, a weekly Tory newspaper which was about to appear in a daily edition. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
This is often the case when the search is being undertaken across borders or in a new market segment.
Those enrolled for complete areas of study will be required to undertake the full assessment schedule for those areas of study.
To help improve the quality of these attributes, a series of exercises should be undertaken in conjunction with a good and healthy diet, plus adequate rest and relaxation.
He worked as an undertaker's assistant when he left school. Times, Sunday Times
Until the forces of the virtual republic took to the field, sanctions against the uncommitted majority were unlikely to be undertaken.
We will undertake reform of the teacher training system to make it more effective in developing classroom skills.
Previous excavations undertaken at the site have uncovered a Roman coin, a Viking comb and clay moulds which were used for making pilgrims' badges out of lead in the shape of St Andrew crucified on the cross.
Resolved That in the opinion of this Board it is inexperient for the University to undertake the building of additional dormitories, or boarding houses for the accommodation of students, unless & until it shall appear that suitable & sufficient accommodations will not be afforded by private enterprise on reasonable terms, & that it is Board of Visitors minutes
Their team will undertake exploration for oil.
All students undertake a project as part of their course. Times, Sunday Times
Forward integration. This involves moving 'downstream' to acquire operation previously undertaken by third parties such as wholesalers or retailers.
In reality, Diana was struggling to keep her head above water, let alone undertake a radical management restructuring programme.
We say we're improving the effectiveness of the voluntary sector but we need to be able to show that the projects we undertake make a difference. Times, Sunday Times
This could either suggest a huge gap in Africa's fossil record - unlikely, say the scientists, given the amount of archaeological work undertaken in the area - or that the species "colonised" Africa from another continent at this time. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
This is most vexing and I think a serious clarification of our respective roles in this relationship should be undertaken, pronto.
Much of the instruction revolves around projects that students undertake in teams.
Encouraged by the textile industry, a great amount of work using differential scanning calorimetry has been undertaken.
The painting was, after all, undertaken as a gift to send to Arles in exchange for a self-portrait by van Gogh.
It has been billed as the most radical revision to the criteria for awarding such grants ever undertaken in the UK.
The result would be no different than if a third party, not otherwise engaged in contemplation of legal proceedings, had undertaken such additional activities.
-- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
The word "undertaker" had long been in common usage.
They suddenly had much less time to hang out in seedy bars and undertake wild art projects.
These estimates do not include additional waters which could be used for irrigation if major interbasin transfer of water were undertaken. Water profile of India
The function of the rule for distribution of evidential burden is to help the judge to decide who is going to undertake the disadvantage judgment when the fact of a case is still unclear.
Area county economy should realize rapid development, must undertake to economic structure strategical adjust.
We say we're improving the effectiveness of the voluntary sector but we need to be able to show that the projects we undertake make a difference. Times, Sunday Times
Saving seed can help balance the books, but it's not to be undertaken lightly.
Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days. The Undertaker's Racket
In his case, it led him to undertake a change of direction career-wise.
Extensive efforts (intellectual, spiritual and structural) have been undertaken to establish this continuity and preserve it in light of the changing fabric of the human experience and to ignore these efforts in favor of some revisionist notion of religion as changing out of pure expedience is as cynical as it is ignorant. A Response to a Response
Lastly, a person who has been wrongfully dispossessed may undertake a form of self-help known as re-entry.
The company also offers an invaluable planning and advice service for people who would rather undertake to do the work themselves.
Those enrolled for complete areas of study will be required to undertake the full assessment schedule for those areas of study.
As for urinary retention and incomplete emptying of the bladder, four out of five (79\%) are not willing to undertake long term catheterization as their only outcome. - Latest HealthCentral News
To stem the tide, so to speak, the Pebble Beach Company has undertaken major projects at major expense.
Therefore, after steady freeze up of Inner Mongolia reach, Haibowan Reservoir will not undertake flood control.
The active duty officer has a solemn professional responsibility based on his oath of office and commission for the official tasks he undertakes.
The issuer undertakes to insure this property and to keep it in good repair. Principles of Corporate Finance
Of course no-one but a Hollywood star would undertake a regime as punishing as that which transformed Croft's pixellated curves into flesh.
This means the White House has not been required to undertake special safety precautions during the current water emergency, he said.
The nature of the work undertaken will also be substantially determined by the size of the advisory team.
Perhaps a belief that everyone would assume this was undertaken explains its omission from the final trial report.
The pattern of going to the spas was the attempt of mostly healthy individuals to undertake a prophylactic cure or to make an apotropaic gesture towards disease and be seen spending rather large sums of money doing this.
For now the allotted year is over, and the last great task must be undertaken. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
Whilst the court does not set such it does undertake the operation, interpretation and application of those laws and procedures.
This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions.
The International Space Station is the most complex international endeavor ever undertaken.
All six companies undertake financial analysis of those companies in which they have an interest for competitive, acquisition or divestment purposes.
Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement.
Within these rules or precepts are five which are undertaken by all those trying to adhere to a Buddhist way of life.
Plus, it needs to be excluded before you undertake vigorous activity or it could be risky. The Sun
The ceilings of both rooms were to be calico, and a dozen or so of seams were to be oversewn for that, the strips of matting were to be joined together and bound into squares, and after that a herculean task undertaken: the making of a huge mosquito-netted dining-room, large enough to enclose the table and chairs, so as to ensure our meals in comfort -- for the flies, like the poor, were to be with us always. We of the Never-Never
The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved.
In 1936 a survey of Jarrow elementary school children was undertaken by an educational psychologist ....
This project was undertaken in response to a direct request by a group of non-nationals.
The success of myxomatosis in controlling rabbit numbers brought new public prestige, and a detailed program of wool research was undertaken.
Vaccinations undertaken either by a nurse in the dispensaries or by mobile teams, did not comply with the vaccination schedules.
An external auditor must decide the scope of the work to be undertaken to discharge his or her duties.
Undertake comparative offerringed the development way henceforth with former new artery.
It seems possible that the series of mouthless, mask-like self-portraits in which Dali poses in a blue smock, undertaken beginning in 1923, might be based on African tribal sculpture.
Then there's the advanced defense ties with the U.S. Hanoi and Washington signed their first defense cooperation agreement this year, and two U.S. military sealift ships have undertaken minor repairs in Cam Ranh Bay. South China Sea Two-Step
His Honour then goes on to make plain that the discharge of that duty required the Council to undertake a sanitary survey and then consequential action upon that.
Once the acute pain has settled, a gradual return to activities such as swimming and walking should be undertaken.
For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home.
If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes.
My learned friend here, I'm sure, will be proud to undertake your defence as a 'docker'; or -- perhaps I should say a Mr. Justice Raffles
Thou knowest that on this occasion it is one of these Counts, or western Franks, who undertakes the combat; and the Varangians, who call these people their enemies, have some reason to claim a precedency in guarding the lists, which it might not at this moment be convenient to dispute with them. Count Robert of Paris
The bogus accounts were unearthed after the comptroller revisited the sampling audits of suspect non-resident accounts undertaken by the Revenue.
I have a big project which I can't undertake until we're ensconced in somewhere stable.
Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
Driven by the Chief Secretary for Administration, the public sector will undertake an Enhanced Productivity Programme.
In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken.
Resolve in the face of doubt, if it is a virtue at all, is a virtue even when one has undertaken an enterprise in error.
There was some diversity in the ways in which departmental self-appraisals were undertaken.
They also undertake research on the effects of radiation. Times, Sunday Times

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