There was a Herculean drive to everything he did, too.
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What were once Herculean feats may become everyday human activities.
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But in, the current environment, this is a Herculean task.
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It's a Herculean task, but someone's got to do it.
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The Switch ultimately has a Herculean task ahead of it.
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Hosszu had a herculean work ethic but no grandiose goals.
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"Battling these relentless fires requires a Herculean effort," California Gov.
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"Battling these relentless fires requires a Herculean effort," Brown wrote.
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In this herculean undertaking, the entire cast deserved much credit.
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Doing so in a month would be a Herculean feat.
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But the pursuit of new elements today is a herculean task.
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But fighting cyberhate involving children can feel like a Herculean task.
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The efforts across multiple departments have been nothing short of herculean.
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In office, Mr Temer would have to tackle several Herculean tasks.
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Their job recalls the Herculean labor of cleaning King Augeas's stables.
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"They've done a Herculean job with the crisis hotline," Celli said.
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Besides, dislodging an incumbent in a primary remains a herculean feat.
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So he offers her a herculean task: putting Bert to sleep.
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Theories The research effort over the past three years has been herculean.
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But what he would have to do would take some Herculean efforts.
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Preparing for big events like the Olympics games is a Herculean effort.
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The smaller NAFTA partners made Herculean lobbying efforts to defend the agreement.
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After a Herculean effort, someone actually manages to fulfil his insane request.
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The Herculean labour of administrative agents cannot succeed without firm political leadership.
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" Another told Slamhood that she was a "herculean inspiration of grit and determination.
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Trump's herculean hairstyling efforts and orangey glow reveal an obsession with looking young.
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It was a Herculean task, akin to being fashion consultant to Steve Bannon.
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Producers and sources who were there tell PEOPLE it was a Herculean feat.
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He had Herculean tolerance for it that left his hangers-on for dust.
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Savvy series buffs know all signs point to yes, despite the herculean hurdles.
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Still, rebuilding the labor movement in the Midwest will be a herculean task.
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Getting rid of all the anti-American propaganda would be a Herculean task.
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In Robot America, most manual laborers will have been replaced by herculean bots.
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That's a herculean "if" statement given the lack of movement on this issue.
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"There is no question that this would be a Herculean task," Graves added.
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And the task before Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and others is admittedly herculean.
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Happiness and contentedness stem from repeatedly doing simple tasks, rather than herculean ones.
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Then Patrick joined, and really brought a new, herculean power to the band.
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His herculean sales figures (75 million and counting) is matched only his cultural influence.
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Yet finding the right mix of talent and personality can be a Herculean task.
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Like any other Herculean task, this one is expected to come with big rewards.
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Gaining full visibility into every supplier at each sub-tier is a herculean task.
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Instead, he will begin the Herculean task of cleaning up Brazil's chaotic public finances.
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"One is an incremental step; the other is really a herculean leap," said Rep.
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It was a Herculean task for us to raise funding, but we pushed through.
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And it is making herculean efforts to keep the country fed amid food hoarding.
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In spite of my herculean status, I got stuck repeatedly in composing this article.
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The answer is no, not without making some pretty herculean assumptions about Miller voters.
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These parents have the Herculean task of supporting their children through wilds of Liberty High.
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Listen to her amazing voice, backed by some Herculean brass on the classic "Blind" below.
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It is a Herculean task to get people to take a chance on you financially.
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Carrying nearly 50 pounds of electric scooter with one hand seems like a Herculean task.
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Confirmation will be a fight, but this herculean battle will be well worth the effort.
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Lawmakers acknowledged that coming up with a palatable budget offset would be a herculean task.
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But do these types of Herculean, zero-to-hero stories ever happen in real life?
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But setting up the system turned out to be a "herculean task," Mr. Hutchinson said.
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That could usher in a government that is more co-operative, if not more Herculean.
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But not everyone has my Herculean self-will when it comes to getting with colleagues.
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In that way, their companionship was inspiring; shouldn't we all reach toward herculean heights, together
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Saving money for a house on an average salary can feel like a herculean task.
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Guardian as it made a Herculean attempt to morph from a mid-sized British newspaper
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Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said that achieving the "aggressive target" for 2019 was a Herculean task.
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You don't need to have Herculean upper body strength to attending a rowing class at Current.
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This is a Herculean challenge for producers, because the flick opens in less than a month.
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"It's been a Herculean sort of task to go through all of these cases," Mosby said.
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At least some recognition for those Herculean efforts is approaching, with Mother's Day on May 13.
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"It would be a truly Herculean effort on Huawei's part to pull it off," he said.
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His argument is electability in the general, but he has a herculean task to get there.
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That could be a herculean task, given the political hurdles the White House is currently facing.
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It was a herculean effort, but maybe not all that unusual in Hyperloop One's short history.
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But once Facebook and Spotify are connected, it becomes a herculean task to pry them apart.
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The second part is, for Mr. Marshall, the most crucial and the task the most herculean.
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I wondered about the herculean denial required to ignore what was plainly in front of him.
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Further, he has to carry out this Herculean task while facing threats to his physical security.
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Inspiring because it takes a herculean effort to not indulge rage at a man like Roof.
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For truly cash-poor families, regularly saving money or avoiding overdraft fees is a Herculean task.
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Despite herculean efforts of laboratory professionals, we can still only perform more than 100 tests daily.
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If not for a herculean effort by the team's defense, they would have trailed by more.
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None of this can be accomplished without a hero, preferably one who verges on the herculean.
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Her cryptic marks are like an invented language that attempts to compute these athletes' herculean movements.
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It would require a herculean effort — and real political will — to turn things around for Concordia.
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It was a herculean feat of engineering that bound a tapestry of disparate tribes into a nation.
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The flies are herculean processors of organic material in streams and rivers — "ecosystem engineers," Dr. Currie said.
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A year later, as Sprint is making billions in spending cuts, it now seems a herculean task.
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His name totally makes sense — since getting Hercules to walk again has indeed been a Herculean effort.
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Merely slowing that down would require a herculean effort, and help from state and local law enforcement.
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But truly turning transport into a service, as Helsinki is aiming to do, is a Herculean task.
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"It is a Herculean lift," said Tim Phillips, president of the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity.
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Beyond the herculean task of rebuilding that lies ahead, Iraqis cannot be certain ISIS is gone forever.
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Tesla's goal of producing 360,000 to 370,000 vehicles for the year is a "herculean task," he said.
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All three experts agreed that just because the challenges are Herculean, that's no reason not to try.
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Faced with the herculean task of replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, President Obama played it safe.
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At this point, it would be a herculean task for any new president to re-establish trust.
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Expanding the Panama Canal was almost as Herculean a task as building it in the first place.
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But the minute she starts singing "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," she taps a herculean strength.
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If she's right, Trump will face the herculean task of securing reelection while the economy is contracting.
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She has taken on the herculean effort of urging millennials to follow CDC guidance on social distancing.
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"It was one of the most amazing and herculean efforts I have ever witnessed," Mr. Vergo said.
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But then, regardless of Washington, Mexico does face the herculean problem of organized crime ravaging its society.
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A tenderly lyrical yet quizzical slow movement leads to a misbehaving scherzo, and then a herculean finale.
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The court gave the government 10 days to comply, a herculean feat even for a motivated state.
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There is almost certain to be a Herculean tug-of-war over credit for the booming economy.
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The efforts - dubbed "Herculean" by Merkel last week - come as climate worries shoot up the public agenda.
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Those same voices will assert that bringing security, let alone democracy, to Afghanistan is a Herculean task.
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It's taken herculean effort and discipline, but they've created a version of that world in their home.
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But by subverting his authority even in subtle, silly ways, we loosen his herculean grasp on us.
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It faces a herculean task since rising health care costs are one of the nation's thorniest problems.
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RBC analyst Gerard Cassidy warned that Sloan's successor faces "Herculean tasks" in restoring Wells Fargo to greatness.
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Once these suspected bronze statues are located, a truly herculean effort will be required to pull them out.
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Producers and sources who were there told PEOPLE that it was a Herculean feat from The Voice coach.
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For one, he did buy into the regimentation for a long, long time to accomplish this Herculean goal.
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Rather, it simply requires what appears to be near-Herculean action for some people: treating women like people.
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Updating the federal government's digital infrastructure seems like a Herculean task akin to cleaning out the Augean stables.
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Gregory also claimed he saw The Green Mile 13 times, a Herculean task for a three-hour film.
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It's a herculean lift in even the best of political climate, and those are just the must-dos.
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Then there's manufacturing and the Herculean challenge of finding device makers to take a chance on unproven technology.
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Maintenance of world peace has become herculean task in the wake of unprecedented emergence of non-state actors.
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Jennifer Keys, the restoration team's project manager, described the project as a "herculean effort," according to the Times.
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Kleinman has set himself the Herculean task of building a gaming company that is by and for gamers.
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The CBI has a Herculean task before it, with decades of corruption and mismanagement weighing down the economy.
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This success offers hope, but the rear-guard battle demonstrates what a herculean task broader reform will be.
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In small communities, those types of resources just aren't there, and that leaves professionals shouldering a Herculean obligation.
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Manzoni's work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
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" The statement continued: "Through a herculean effort by both company's global supply bases, all parts have been sourced.
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Hall is a herculean researcher whose sources include security files she sued the Department of Justice to access.
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Their pleas raised the stakes of success for a task that government officials and experts described as herculean.
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For any other leader, the rapid turnaround on the recovery plan would be a herculean feat at best.
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Speak to them calmly — which can be herculean — and in person, when it's just the four of you.
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Pulling off a summit meeting by June 12 will require a herculean focus on all kinds of details.
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After a verdict, the burden shifts to the convicted to prove innocence from their cell — a herculean endeavor.
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There's just one problem: Apple AirPods are all but impossible to recycle, which makes them a Herculean environmental challenge.
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"The law and the society are bestowed with the Herculean task to act as levelers," Justice Misra's judgment said.
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"American achieved a herculean effort last year by merging two massive airlines with really no major problems," he said.
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Heartbreakers, as a gay bar, suggested the possibility for progress in an environment where progress is a Herculean task.
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In 2015, they released the critically-acclaimed triple-LP Infinity Machines, a psych-jazz bad trip of Herculean proportions.
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For staff working in massive warehouses, dealing with inventory and ensuring efficient, speedy deliveries can be a Herculean task.
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That's just a couple boards every game from matching Westbrook's Herculean feats through most of the season's first half.
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Look into the community and you'll see dozens of tales of Tacomas performing Herculean feats and surviving impossible situations.
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"This is a truly herculean enterprise, but nothing less than this can restore a semblance of stability," he added.
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While currency reform may sound like a herculean task, it can be done easily and is long overdue. Rep.
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They have taken on the herculean task of trying to denuclearize the divided Korean Peninsula, achieving a shaky détente.
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The M850i delivers a Herculean 523 horsepower despite not even being the range-topping engine for the 2.93 Series.
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Lawmakers face a herculean task in trying to reach a comprehensive immigration deal to end the partial government shutdown.
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So as the world grapples with its Herculean effort to mitigate Pyongyang's threat, exactly how much is at stake?
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But it still has plenty of challenges, including the herculean daily effort to restock bikes where they are needed.
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Doing so required the use of special hardware, custom software, and an effort that could only be called Herculean.
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Nonprofit theaters, museums and orchestras have made a herculean grassroots effort engaging their subscribers and donors to help #SavetheNEA.
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These schools are doing "a herculean task of making college affordable for the average student and family," he said.
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Today, few realize the "herculean efforts" states historically took to prevent black and brown people from registering to vote.
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Mueller and his team did a Herculean job in uncovering a great deal of truth in a very short time.
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In what must have been a herculean show of restraint, 17 of these subjects agreed to abstain for 28 days.
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Nick Clegg has a herculean job ahead of him at Facebook as the incoming head of PR and global affairs.
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Some climate experts were more forgiving of O'Rourke, noting that a 2030 net-zero deadline would be a Herculean lift.
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These dates have prompted a more urgent asking of the oft-discussed question: How do we start this herculean task?
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And this is without the other Herculean task of getting currently elected Republicans to publicly acknowledge the problem at all.
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Like a series of Herculean tasks, many have tried and many have failed to coax Richard out from his lodgings.
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It will take a Herculean effort to put Florida in play for Rubio, and that effort starts tonight in Texas.
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It was yet another much-needed reminder that Apple goes out of its way to make tinkering a herculean task.
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Transportation advocates acknowledged that it was always going to be a herculean task to be heard above the Comey clamor.
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Sustaining production at these rates and even increasing it has required a Herculean effort to offset the natural field declines.
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Changing the size of the Supreme Court is a near herculean task that is also subject to checks and balances.
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"This never-before accomplished test event was effectively executed with herculean efforts by a collaborative program office-fleet team," Capt.
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Each strike takes a herculean amount of coordination on the part of organizers and bravery on the part of workers.
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Simcott's winkingly says "Try Me." No one becomes a hyperpolyglot by osmosis, or without sacrifice—it's a rare, herculean feat.
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Coats said the National Security Agency had already undergone a "Herculean" effort to determine the number, but somehow failed miserably.
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This Herculean task is far from over and an incredible amount of work still remains, but progress is being made.
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HBO has jumped through some herculean hoops to keep the details on the last season of Game of Thrones secret.
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It takes a herculean energy to start a company, which is maybe why, so often, our stories sound like myths.
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Though making "6088AD" looks effortless, creating these immersive environments are a herculean effort for both the artist and his equipment.
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Riding would have been a near-Herculean task with thousands of people filling both the pedestrian and the bike lanes.
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There was so much to learn, but Deb was patient with my endless enthusiasm and heartbreak at the herculean task.
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More than 1.5 billion people use Gmail, and preventing malware and spam from reaching these users is a herculean task.
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The last of the spawning spring-summer Chinook salmon arrived here in June after a herculean 800-mile upstream swim.
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Getting China to commit to changes on these issues would be a herculean task for any administration, Mr. Kennedy said.
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Despite the Herculean efforts of the pantry's director, Melissa Zula, no other food bank could be found to take the food.
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We basically started a complete redesign of the campaign about a year and a half in, a very silly Herculean effort.
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Life with a baby can make even the smallest chores feel like a herculean task if you don't have a nanny.
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Despite the Democrats' herculean efforts, their measure is expected to fall short of the 60 votes it would need to advance.
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As the new prime minister, May will have the Herculean task of guiding the United Kingdom through the aftermath of Brexit.
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The government doesn't maintain a list of all Americans who lack insurance coverage, and building one would be a Herculean effort.
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The Echo's achievement is nothing short of Herculean: It's a smart home device that isn't just widely used; it's widely loved.
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It sounded exhausting, Herculean, like trying to run a Fortune 500 company with only the use of an Etch-a-Sketch.
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The process was no different for The Teeth of the Comb: It took a herculean effort to make the books possible.
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For their herculean efforts, Makoma Lekalakala, 19903, and Liz McDaid, 55, were awarded the prestigious 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday.
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Negotiating a deal that satisfies both groups — or even just a healthy minority — is a herculean task for the new government.
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I had to stop because I felt like it was a Herculean task trying to save all that food from waste.
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Given his position in the polls, that means improving his standing by about a net 30 percentage points — a herculean task.
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Addressing them would be a herculean task for any government, and the new Iraqi one has yet to be fully assembled.
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"They're doing Herculean work in our stores and serving customers in frankly a tense environment," Bartlett said of Walmart's store employees.
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More broadly, scientific research on Covid-219 requires a Herculean effort to keep up with the results emerging from other labs.
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The Connecticut Supreme Court warned the Sandy Hook plaintiffs that they'd face a potentially "Herculean task" as the case moved forward.
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Before I got to Xen, though, Black Mesa often felt like an herculean effort to make an old game look modern.
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If Kim really does want to meet, convincing him he'll be safe outside his hermit kingdom will be a Herculean task.
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Johnson, who stands 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 meters) and weighs 245 pounds (111 kg), is known for his herculean appearance.
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He's undergoing a herculean, complex disclosure and vetting process, but is still on track to be Trump's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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The fields are mostly bald, shorn of vegetation in a Herculean attempt to remove the radioactive fallout that settled six years ago.
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That leads to the second disruptive factor of ever-escalating herculean budgets for Originals in order to both acquire and retain customers.
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To Ryder, Church and others, herculean efforts like this one can accelerate technologies that'll help rescue many more species in the future.
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Still, Temprano cautions that even an expanded team can't do all the Herculean research required to convey the complexity of indigenous history.
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At the other end of the table, a silent, stealth fox is plowing his way confidently through his Herculean serving of pizza.
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Gregory had a lot of very bad opinions and thoughts that were backed by an amazing quick wit and a Herculean willpower.
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In the meantime, my apologies and gratitude to voters who have the herculean task of picking a president at a car dealership.
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After the show, they relax with a few Caesar salads and presumably the herculean quantity of alcohol remaining in their dressing room.
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Our magazine has the back story of Oliver Stone's herculean efforts to make "Snowden," the biopic of Edward Snowden opening Sept. 16.
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But he has been given this monumental, herculean task of having to kill Ghost, re-establish the drug network and run it.
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"It's almost a herculean effort," Mr. Lauren said Thursday at the company's Midtown headquarters, as he previewed the Olympics designs for me.
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Now multiply that by 1.32 billion personalized Facebook feeds and you can just start to fathom the Herculean task Zuckerberg and co.
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"Herculean efforts have cleared the streets, but water and power have yet to be restored," The Atlantic wrote of Kobani last October.
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But there was something about Dawes, a gymnast, and dancer of Herculean athleticism and control, that appealed to me at age nine.
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They are spared the herculean horror of trying to say his last name, and the pitfalls of cultural snobbery that surround it.
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Parents and guardians now have the herculean task of keeping cooped up kiddos actively engaged, and averting their eyes from multiple screens.
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Varadkar warned that even if a deal was struck, agreeing a future free trade agreement would be a "Herculean" task for Johnson.
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These services are a lifeline for millions, and it's a herculean task to fulfill them on the scale that refugee crises demand.
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The research must have been a herculean task, not to mention the effort of arranging the 246 songs used throughout the show.
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Asked if he wanted to replicate Silvers's herculean office hours, which he kept until the end of his life, Buruma just laughed.
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Despite emergency surgeries, and what her mother described as "Herculean efforts" to try to save her, the daughter she knew was gone.
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These Herculean drawings form the backdrop for Strand's 3D and installation works, which raise the weirdness ante to a whole new level.
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When there is money to be made on the long side, it takes a herculean level of willpower to stay on the sidelines.
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But with its variable speed, that'll now be a physics task of herculean proportions, and probably something best suited for a future supercomputer.
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KN: And finally, we've got Subject Line, where curation editor Elamin Abdulmahmoud does the herculean feat of making sense of this week's news.
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Enveloped in white, with a ceiling light fixture brushing against his shoulder, he looks something like a herculean angel, who's ready for lunch.
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That's Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old mathematical genius for whom walking down the street or holding a conversation is a herculean challenge.
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"We had a feeling it would be possible [to detect x-rays], but we thought it would take a herculean effort," he said.
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For Nazis, what better way to spread their ideologies and incite hateful violence than to tap into this easily exploited and Herculean platform?
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Maryland Zoo's baby giraffe Julius, has died just one month after being born – despite "Herculean" efforts by zookeepers and veterinarians to save him.
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Of turning food into a Herculean struggle to be overcome rather than the necessity or casual enjoyment most of us experience it as?
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Geoff Diehl (R-Mass.), Trump state co-chair Diehl is mulling whether to take on the herculean task of challenging progressive stalwart Sen.
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The story of his rescue of the boy and his herculean swim through shark-infested waters explodes onto the 24-hour news cycle.
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Once listed, Aramco will face the herculean challenge of answering to the differing priorities and demands of private shareholders and the Saudi government.
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One of the many things that makes "Boyhood" exceptional is that it was filmed over an 11 year period — a herculean filmmaking achievement.
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In 2014, when the Giants ace Madison Bumgarner was 25, he tossed 270 innings, including 52 ⅔ in a herculean effort during the playoffs.
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How To Vomit Politely You partied too hard the night before and you've accomplished the Herculean task of getting to work on time.
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Here's the full concept animation of LIMES' Herculean efforts to clear that white bench on its way to its Tatooine-style Moon base.
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It is a herculean task to lug so many long, pointed, sharp-edged skis across three continents during the six-month racing season.
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To make such a system extensive enough to serve one of the world's biggest metropolitan areas, with private funding, seems a herculean proposition.
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Using that muscle, researchers digitally simulated how 703,000 different molecules would interact with the virus — a Herculean task for your typical personal computer.
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In full live performances, Dawes emulates Mr. Springsteen's herculean shows by playing for nearly three hours, the better to showcase the band's prowess.
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"Let me tell you what, this is a Herculean effort in our entire industry," Gant said from his office in Burlington, North Carolina.
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"Let me tell you what, this is a Herculean effort in our entire industry," Gant said from his office in Burlington, North Carolina.
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There is no guarantee, however, that he will pull off the herculean task of integrating Fox, which has a drastically different corporate culture.
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Anyhow, I suppose one could twist all this news into some kind of grand moral narrative about the making and unmaking of Herculean myth.
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Chainsaws and bulldozers worked in unison as crews took on the herculean task of restoring a reliable route from Interstate 10 to the coast.
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Friday's decision revived claims that Buchwald dismissed in October 2015, in what Lynch called a "Herculean" 436-page ruling involving Schwab and other plaintiffs.
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Runner Vallu111 is the only one on the current leaderboard for this herculean achievement, dubbed Super Mario 982 for its massive number of collectables.
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Flames are being kept from the downtown area thanks to the "herculean'" efforts of firefighters, said Scott Long of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency.
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Because that mutation is found in less than 1% of all cancer patients, recruiting people to the trial was a "Herculean effort", he says.
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After a herculean restoration effort, it will show in its full form in what is being billed as the first time since the 1930s.
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Once in every great while, nature and nurture combine in a single person the qualities of erratic genius, herculean work ethic and irrepressible ambition.
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Even if the ice wall works, Tepco will face the herculean task of dealing with the huge amounts of contaminated water that have accumulated.
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The networks clearly want another reality hit badly, but based on recent history, establishing a new one represents a different sort of Herculean feat.
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Unpicking the truth from the hype and working out how to deal with the new challenges we find ourselves facing is a herculean task.
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The Wound and the Bow—Geryon's second full-length and Profound Lore Records debut—offers up face-melting death metal mayhem of Herculean proportions.
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Looking ahead, analysts at Barclays expect markets to remain under pressure despite "Herculean efforts" by central banks and governments to keep their economies afloat.
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And even if you make a herculean effort to eat healthy, it's common for your daily diet to fall short of optimal nutrient levels.
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No better example can be found than his herculean efforts to keep his successor from doing grave harm to the country Mr. Obama loves.
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" But he added "we have a long way to go in recovery" and said rebuilding Puerto Rico is "going to be a Herculean effort.
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This is a Herculean task, a true African "digital moonshot," and we are putting money on the table to support the African Union's ambition.
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Even the basic functions of the government — passing a budget, raising the debt ceiling and addressing immediate spending needs — appear to be Herculean tasks.
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Holding the company to account is a Herculean effort, but it's even harder when people are afraid to bite the hand that feeds them.
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It's almost all Potter, overdubbed on top of himself, before the dubs drop out and he launches into one of his characteristically herculean solos.
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The herculean drives to the rim, the impossible pull-up three-pointers that went in over and over again, the uncanny wizardry with the basketball.
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It was a herculean effort for the director at the time, and the behind-the-scenes stress pushed him to break ties with the studio.
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But this output, combined with a Herculean touring schedule, caused the wheels to fall off, with the band's lineup becoming a rotating door for members.
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It takes a herculean effort to translate Kato's "inner vision" to the big screen; there's hardly any language to express something non-visually in cinema.
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Well, it will become easier to address the most profitable part of the stack — lending — without getting into the herculean and quixotic path of payments.
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Pushing one major tax change through Congress will be hard enough; passing two plans — a wealth tax plus a fallback — will be a herculean challenge.
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The way it's looking, WeWork would have to produce some Herculean growth in the next three years to achieve those goals and unlock those tranches.
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This momentous breakthrough — among the most important in the history of science — required a 13-year-long Herculean effort that cost approximately $3 billion dollars.
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But every now and then, amid all the herculean piles of shit that continue to build, day by day, something good bubbles to the surface.
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An entire section of the civil protection force is crunching statistics, a herculean task in a nation where numbers are often more art than science.
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Laika's always-loving animation turns every story into a feat, made even more epic by the herculean studio efforts that went into the film's creation.
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That would require a herculean effort on behalf of multiple, subsequent administrations — not to mention the continued patience of taxpayers — to ensure it was completed.
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Congress is way behind on its schedule for reforming the tax code, a Herculean task that lawmakers haven't done in a comprehensive way since 1986.
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The skin of a bed-bound patient is paper thin; keeping it intact, like the unbroken film on a French pudding, requires a herculean effort.
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This will take about twenty minutes longer than it usually does, because you are so sick that every tiny action feels like a herculean task.
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Since coming to power three years ago, the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party has swept the stables at state-owned enterprises (SOEs) with Herculean energy.
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If you're not familiar with the NBC show, now in its ninth season, it's an athletic competition that involves completing a series of timed Herculean obstacles.
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If you're progressing through the main missions at a decent clip, though, Typhon can multiply to the point where these side stories feel like Herculean trials.
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After devising a plan that won Yanukovych Ukraine's presidency, an emboldened Manafort turned his attention to another herculean effort: repairing Ukraine's foreign affairs and reputation abroad.
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In a Herculean feat, showrunner Raphael Bob-Waksberg, along with director Aaron Long and co-writer Kate Purdy, humanizes Bojack Horseman's closest thing to a villain.
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Up against the entire national, state, and local Democratic establishment, Sanders knew toppling the Clinton machine would be a Herculean accomplishment that might not be reached.
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The KMT's once-mighty machine, built on cash and cronyism, has hit the buffers; it faces a Herculean task to reinvent itself along more modern lines.
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This is a Herculean task, perhaps the biggest challenge for any executive in the world, of rebuilding not only a football team, but entire football department.
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My father told me that President Franklin Roosevelt, during the Depression, did a herculean job of pulling a nation out of the depth of economic malaise.
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Despite the fact that the White House helped negotiate the compromise immigration bill with House leaders, ensuring the President backs it has been a herculean lift.
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She may not always telegraph it, but Ms. Ayotte, a freshman senator, is locked in a herculean battle with the state's popular Democratic governor, Maggie Hassan.
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Two million signatures were needed from all over the country in just one month, a task made even more herculean by the sheer size of Russia.
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Even with the promise of a special classroom, getting anxious kids to Roxbury High each morning demands a herculean effort from the program's teachers and therapists.
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Because of differences among the states, and both geographic and demographic dispersion, it's a Herculean task to do so in more than a handful of them.
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Thursday: The city of New Rochelle is making "a herculean effort" to fight the virus, with drive-through testing centers and assistance from the National Guard.
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But even that optimistic scenario depends on rigorous social distancing and a herculean effort to shore up the health system to prevent it from being overrun.
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Celli said the VA does a "herculean job through social media campaigns and outreach with their partners" to let veterans know about the care it provides.
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It took three years, a herculean effort, and several tragic trunk entrapment deaths to get a government rule written requiring all vehicles to have trunk releases.
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What also goes unreported is the intense, constant cooperation between allied security services as they undertake the unenviable and herculean task of stopping the next terrorist operation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Greenpoint Open Studios sets a visitor up for an almost Herculean task: there are too many galleries and many, many stairs.
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Photo: GettyTracking all the president's lies is a Herculean effort best left to the teams of political reporters at august publications with time and money to burn.
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After years of fighting to clear their names, the state's highest court exonerated them on Wednesday, saying they had achieved the "Herculean" task of proving their innocence.
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Wilson's first thought after the waters receded and he girded himself for a Herculean cleanup is one echoing across the storm-weary Texas coast: should he rebuild?
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Leaving your house in the dead of winter can feel like an herculean task, especially when the weather is gloomy and there's black ice on the ground.
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All indications are that this is a one-off, and gathering the cast was a Herculean task that only a director of Lynch's popularity could pull off.
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But her herculean effort was smashed within hours, as eagle-eyed observers discovered that a passage about values in her speech was apparently plagiarized from Mrs. Obama.
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Following the collapse of the Oslo Accords and peace treaty in the 2000s, the short journey from Gaza to an Israeli hospital is now a Herculean task.
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The Falcons offensive coordinator won't have much time to dwell on this one, as he's soon to begin the herculean task of trying to rebuild the 49ers.
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This Herculean bodybuilder breezes through his intense upper body workout in less than 30 seconds because if you're taking any longer than that, you're doing it wrong.
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That could require a bill to ultimately get two-thirds support in both chambers — a potentially herculean task for a GOP-controlled Congress against a Republican president.
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"Constricting the whole timeline of going from concept to a product that can be distributed into a year or two is really a herculean endeavor," Andrus says.
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The metric for my supposed perfection kept changing, so it was a herculean task to keep up with my failings, which I now gather was the point.
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But if reassembling the show's enormous ensemble cast 13 years on was a herculean task, reassembling the town of Deadwood itself was no less knotty, or crucial.
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Conveniently left out of these bucolic scenes were us, his parents, hollow-eyed and deflated from the Herculean effort it takes to get kids to camp today.
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The COVID-19 driven shift to telepresence, which is requiring herculean efforts on the part of IT and cybersecurity professionals to be sustained, presents just that opportunity.
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That it was clearly a herculean effort requiring tremendous mental focus and physical stamina — you could sometimes hear him breathing heavily — made it all the more impressive.
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Even when we undertake the herculean job of scooping plastic trash from the sea or collecting it from beaches, the challenge remains: What to do with it?
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We did at least now have—thanks to the herculean efforts of Eleanor and her legal team—an A/V data shutoff to which you could resort.
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The staff at Houston Methodist had performed a herculean feat to save her life, but after her condition switched from acute to non-urgent, they were stuck.
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And it's all thanks to a Herculean effort that halved Cape Town's water consumption in just three years -- something that took Melbourne, Australia, 12 years to do.
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He called the task "herculean" but he's bullish on the company being a success: Succession plan There's no way around it: Buffett and Munger are both very old.
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Much of "Chasing Coral" is about his team's grappling with the Herculean technical challenge of filming coral in time-lapse under water—succeeding only after relentless, exhausting effort.
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Mehrdad Emadi, an Iranian economist who is head of energy risk analysis at the Betamatrix consultancy in London, said Rouhani faced a "Herculean challenge" fighting corruption in particular.
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Instead we need a Herculean international effort, rooted in political will, that acknowledges the Syrian conflict for what it is and acts responsibly in the face of it.
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Identifying every instance of redundancy within this complex system, which has an estimated impact of $2 trillion annually on the U.S. economy, will require a Herculean analytical effort.
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On today's episode of Waypoint Radio, Rob, Patrick, Austin and Danielle gather to discuss games that attempt the herculean task of ending a series on a satisfying note.
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Whether it's getting to zero waste or reaching 100 percent renewable energy, these are herculean tasks, made more difficult by recalcitrant and regressive federal and sometimes state governments.
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At its best, Edelman's documentary reveals what made Simpson unique: not simply that he tried to outrun his blackness, but the herculean efforts he made to do so.
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It is difficult enough to get one overscheduled rap star in a room during business hours; it's a herculean task to get ten of them there before noon.
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So it's no surprise Ye's new release, The Life of Pablo has seen equal Herculean efforts in pretty much locking down the entire music industry for each song.
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The company partners with HBO in this new limited political news series, which aims to break down the week's biggest headlines — a herculean task for 30-minute episodes.
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It may prove herculean next Tuesday, when Measure EE — as the 16-cents-per-square-foot parcel tax is officially called — is the only issue on the ballot.
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The burning drill rig and underwater plume of hydrocarbons was a media sensation, an unfolding crisis replete with stunning pictures and a herculean mobilization of humans and technology.
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Yes, there's his herculean practice regimen (upward of eight hours a day, even into middle age) and the yearslong sabbaticals he took from performing to hone his craft.
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Guarding him when he has the ball right in front of you—and everyone in the gym knows what he's about to do—is already a Herculean task.
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It is deeply sexual in a non-prurient way; when juxtaposed with the overwhelming normalcy of the rest of the men's lives, the herculean exercises are but another routine.
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Often, it took a comparably Herculean level of courage for the offending party to show up and look into the eyes of the people whom they had irreparably harmed.
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In the group's findings, published in the journal Science Advances, participants completed Herculean events like the 2,200-mile Tour de France and the 140-day Race Across the USA.
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The Herculean challenge of holding simultaneous presidential and parliamentary votes this year has triggered calls for the polls to be held at different times and to use more technology.
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Considering the rapid explosion of technology in recent years, it's not hard to imagine just what a Herculean task patent examiners face and why some applications are wrongly approved.
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That's exactly what happened to Rogue One director Gareth Edwards, who had been tasked with the herculean task of naming the most prominent planet in the Star Wars film.
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Hobbs used the Herculean swim as a way to raise money for the Smile Foundation, a South African charity that helps children with cleft palates and other facial deformities.
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In fact, the Herculean task of cleaning up the detritus of war has become one of the biggest obstacles in the region's struggle to patch up its shattered cities.
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We ask summer books to perform an Herculean task: Keep us entertained amid a million distractions — the beating sun, kids kicking up sand near your towel, Baywatch-esque lifeguards.
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Described as "a Herculean endeavor" by one of the article's peer reviewers, it integrates the work of 10 different groups at universities around the country and 82 separate authors.
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When I masturbated, it always involved similar templates of baroque courtyard scenes: shallow fountains with ornately patterned tiles and thick white columns that Herculean men would ravage me against.
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Getting the President to clearly state that he believes his own intelligence community over Vladimir Putin on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been a Herculean task.
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It took the herculean efforts of political heavyweights President Ronald Reagan, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, and Treasury Secretary James Baker—and the legislation still collapsed repeatedly before final passage.
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"The NSA has made herculean, extensive efforts to devise a counting strategy that would be accurate and would respond to the question [about surveillance of US persons]," Coats said.
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Because of that, winning can sometimes feel like a Herculean task, driving just enough of a wedge into the opponent's line that you can start to crack it open.
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Securing this legal authority required a herculean effort that included posting an open letter on social media begging county officials to keep him in a hospital instead of jail.
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Now they are poised to reckon with an even more herculean task: finding common ground to pass the massive $1 trillion package the Senate is about to take up.
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Casting the "Ring" is a task almost as herculean as singing it, and the Met can feel smug about much of the talent it has assembled for this revival.
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Keeping a 24-hour subway system up-to-date is a herculean task, and even the best-maintained signals, tracks and tunnels will fall victim to occasional maintenance problems.
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Sanders's goal is to get all of the nation's power from renewable sources by 2030 — a herculean task with a price tag nearly 10 times bigger than Biden's plan.
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Democrats will need four Republican senators to break ranks, a potentially herculean lift given the unity within the GOP caucus and the small pool of potential swing votes. Sen.
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Despite encouraging reports like this one, the herculean efforts required to grow the mountain gorilla population are difficult to sustain and do not point to an easy road ahead.
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In an interview with The New York Times published Friday, Clovis said any law replacing the Affordable Care Act "must be bipartisan," a herculean task in the current Congress.
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What starts as an ugly portrait of the hatred in the city and the country becomes a tender story about pursuing justice and the herculean task of finding forgiveness.
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Thus we have our first equation: 21,21 (women) / 25 (days) = 21—meaning that, to accomplish this Herculean task, Blueface would've had to sleep with roughly five women a day.
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"Both the government and businesses have a Herculean task ahead of them in determining how we respond to the changing shape of our society," Mercer partner Gary Simmons said.
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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.
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The furor has since died down but Peach earns itself a spot on this list for accomplishing the Herculean task of coming up with a unique social app in 2016.
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The incredible thing here is that this strategy — in one of the most herculean displays of effort in the history of the modern corporation — has permeated Amazon at every level.
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Why would I want to sit in a salon for hours on end to leave with talons that turned everyday tasks into Herculean efforts and didn't even look that good?
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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.
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In January, the United Nations said a surge in kidnappings and general insecurity in North Kivu province in recent months had made delivering life-saving humanitarian aid a "Herculean task".
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" Positive step Ross called the agreement a "herculean accomplishment" and argued the deal represented the biggest accomplishment in US-China trade negotiations "in the whole history of US-China relations.
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Only time will tell if these oceanic heroes are truly up to the Herculean task of championing the regularly mixed DCEU, but everything we're hearing so far is super encouraging.
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While the Senate's "Herculean stimulus effort" will provide short-term aid for struggling firms, the package "is unlikely to overcome the effects of the COVID-19 shock," the economists wrote.
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"We think even this Herculean stimulus effort is unlikely to overcome the effects of the COVID-19 shock and its interaction with existing vulnerabilities in the economy," the team wrote.
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Convincing them that something is worth their attention is a challenge already, but convincing a teenager of Christianity's appeal is a Herculean undertaking in which very, very, very few succeed.
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Raising federal fuel taxes — which hasn't been done in over two decades — would be a herculean lift in Congress, where conservatives have repeatedly drawn a red line over the issue.
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Hmiel's approach to measuring methane emissions is "a really Herculean effort that involves — no joke — each sample is about 1000 kilograms of ice that we have to melt," he says.
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From the moment Jane Bradley and Katie J.M. Baker began reporting out a tip about possible sexual misconduct by the self-help megastar Tony Robbins, they faced a Herculean task.
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This after two combat tours in rural eastern Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division, the premier division in the U.S. Army, synchronizing truly herculean combat power and destroying the enemy.
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The promise always verged on false advertising; tripling per capita GDP to Western European levels, and building their social infrastructures, would have been a herculean task even under ideal circumstances.
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Abercrombie (1909-77) — whose work has not had a solo show here since 1952 — was also a jazz devotee, Chicago bohemian and saloniste, and her return represents a herculean effort.
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"It was a herculean effort by the team to really pull off what we pulled off in that room today," said Jennifer Keys, the project manager of the restoration team.
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Such has become the ethos of Rodgers, a Hail Mary-tossing, championship belt-totting, X-Men reserve who has the Herculean coordination to swat a single fly with a golf club.
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"One case of sexual abuse is one case too many, and it will take a Herculean effort to regain the trust of respective athletes and their families," said Harper, a Republican.
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But answering the question thoroughly requires delving into the manifold ways race, gender, class, and celebrity are playing out in the R. Kelly story, which is a Herculean task for anyone.
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Given the Herculean effort made to realize the project, one wonders if its incipient destruction might be a letdown, but Baldauf's highly cultivated and consciously practiced optimism fuels a different perspective.
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This is entirely unacceptable, and in a Herculean effort to wrap our brains around why, precisely, this must be, we've brainstormed a list of reasons that could possibly explain it. 220.
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The fact one of America's most progressive states keeps failing at passing a substantive climate policy — it's been trying for a decade — suggests herculean obstacles for other state and national efforts.
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The lack of a "reliable source to look and see every possible entity name that would be valid, including 'doing business as' names," would make it a herculean task, he said.
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"Very proud of the @away team for the herculean effort that went into doing the right thing for our earliest customers," Away CEO Steph Korey wrote on Twitter earlier this week.
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Developing an international standard for the 5G network is likely to be a herculean task tangled in red tape, but the deadline in sight is 2020, just four years from now.
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Every album has its charms and while diving in seems like a herculean task, Noisey is here to give you a basic introduction to one of indie rock's most respected acts.
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There was some good news — Fort McMurray's water treatment plant was saved, and Scott Long of Alberta Emergency said the downtown core was being held "through some Herculean efforts" of firefighters.
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Nasci points to the Herculean job that Latin America undertook in the 1950s and 1960s to eradicate Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits yellow fever -- and also dengue, chikungunya and Zika.
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If you're a young twenty-something, this may pose little difficulty, but if you're taking care of a family — with bills to pay and mouths to feed — the task becomes Herculean.
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But given that she didn't win the state's Sixth District, combined with how pro-Trump Kentucky is and the millions McConnell will spend against her, winning would be a Herculean task.
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To avoid more severe impacts, the panel said greenhouse gas emissions should be cut by about 45% by 2030, relative to 2010 levels — a Herculean task compared to current global trends.
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She produced a herculean effort on the outdoor hard court after earlier Sunday upsetting the top-ranked Barty in a three-set thriller to move France into a 2-1 lead.
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That means the warehouse looting in Juba, which would have required a herculean effort involving hundreds of people over several days, will have ripple effects all across this desperately hungry country.
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About four years before her herculean success in turning around a stale and flailingSaturday Night Live, Jones appeared on stage in Hollywood and showed audiences just what she was made of.
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Rewriting the tax code was the kind of herculean lift many doubted Congress could pull off, especially after the Senate failed to repeal Obamacare last summer and again in the fall.
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Overhauling the system is a herculean effort for a country that only began rebuilding it in the early 21s, as part of the peace accords that ended its brutal civil war.
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There's not great reason for confidence that the offense will roll when DeRozan isn't turning in Herculean performances, and so it's the defensive end where Toronto may have to win games.
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To the extent this trend continues and actions aren't taken to offset the impact, a seemingly green mode of transport will only add to the herculean task of combating climate change.
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The risk of transmitting or contracting COVID-19 has kept me far away from friends and family, forced me to cancel countless plans, and made acquiring toilet paper a herculean task.
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Almost as quickly, in a herculean effort, an international network of researchers at data and wet laboratories has started gathering and analyzing data to unmask and disarm this perplexing new disease.
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Trump's ballyhooed breakthroughs in saving jobs at Carrier, securing arms sales to Saudi Arabia, or opening China to U.S. beef, for instance, are far from the "herculean" achievements that Trump suggests.
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But if Senate leadership can't win over Paul and Corker, they would face the herculean task of holding together every other member of their wide-ranging caucus, including firebrands like Sen.
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And yet the show can still bring plenty of laughs, too, usually thanks in no small part to the Herculean efforts of its talented team of cast members and featured players.
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In order to deprive her of the nomination, Sanders would have to convince large numbers of super delegates that she is too badly damaged to beat Trump in November — a Herculean task.
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Unfortunately for him, this isn't 1845, and those questions resurfaced the second he stepped out of the mountains and onstage at the Super Bowl, despite his Herculean effort to keep things bland.
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Despite herculean R&D efforts, the innovations necessary to make these alternative fuels economically sustainable has yet to materialize, and most of the mandate to date is being fulfilled by corn ethanol.
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Hough's colorist, Amber Maynard Bolt, described the entire process for PeopleStyle, from her inspiration photos to achieving the final result – an Herculean effort that took nine hours and two tries to achieve.
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Neither is guaranteed to succeed, but for people worried about the herculean efforts needed to stop global warming, they're both worth considering seriously: But this first option is easier said than done.
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The initial hometown lovefest predictably curdled once local radio hosts and columnists suggested, much more than once, that he simply lacked the Herculean strength required to clean this particular Augean stable out.
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In his first two years in office, President Obama performed herculean deeds in rescuing the banks, restoring the economy, bailing out the automobile industry and getting his signature health care legislation passed.
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But these days, as with other sites of similar scale, the challenging of policing bad actors among billions of users, is becoming a Herculean task – and one companies are failing at, too.
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The Raptors will have to trust the math over seven games, believe in their approach, and hope that James doesn't have four more Herculean individual efforts in him the next two weeks.
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For the candidates that do win, it can cripple their independence and for the few reformers left with the herculean task of unrigging the system they typically find themselves outnumbered and outspent.
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You run the risk of stupid little crumbs getting lodged beneath or between those shallow keys, disabling the key switch so completely that typing a single sentence can become a Herculean task.
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Colette displays writing as both exhilarating and deeply depressing—a herculean emotional task, where life is given additional meaning in retrospect as Colette hashes over how to commit it to the page.
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For instance, there are 20-plus Asian languages spoken in the community, and it is a herculean challenge to find mental health professionals capable of communicating in one or more Asian languages.
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If you're out there and have also seen Zoo, please send some sample descriptors my way, because trying to convey what this show hath wrought here is something of a herculean task.
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What remains, though, is an impressively detailed, dense epic in two volumes, "The Billion-Dollar Molecule" and "The Antidote," describing the truly herculean labors needed to birth a panel of marketable drugs.
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It was shown for the first time in North America on Saturday at the Telluride Film Festival, where two new documentaries about the herculean efforts to finish the film were also screened.
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It's a herculean undertaking that will require fine-tuned diplomacy between the host nations, and lots of cooperation between organizers and myriad federal, state and local agencies in all three host countries.
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It is such conditions that made so many voters turn away from established parties and to Mr. López Obrador, and he now has the herculean task of trying to resolve these problems.
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Michelle spent nearly a decade intricately researching and playing amateur detective trying to weave together 215.11 years of evidence in an herculean effort to discover the true identity of The Golden State killer.
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When the L train shutters between Manhattan and Brooklyn a little over a year from now, figuring out transportation alternatives for hundreds of thousands of riders is going to be a Herculean task.
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After six of Lama's Herculean grunts, Haase let out with one of his own, which apparently fell a little too close to mean-spirited imitation for the judge, who docked him a point.
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County Durham's very own Dionysian avatar, is a living receptacle for every decadent fantasy we've all (briefly) entertained, of submitting yourself to a Herculean level of drug intake in the name of fun.
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For those who support the Donald's brash, unapologetic antics and Herculean swagger, there was plenty to cheer in his talk about winning against China and forcing Mexico to build an even taller wall.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the same parliamentary session that implementing the EU-Turkey deal remained a "Herculean task", for practical reasons as well as disputes with Ankara over human rights.
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They give up a ton of shots at the rim—a staple since Kidd was hired—but have enough length to make finishing at the basket feel like a herculean task for opponents.
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Thanks to the herculean effort of the Cook Political Report's David Wasserman, we can dive deep into the total number of votes cast for Democrats and Republicans in House races across the country.
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All of that puts Pompeo in the best position of anyone to pull off the seemingly herculean task of denuclearizing North Korea, which is run by a government with a history of duplicity.
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All of that puts Pompeo in the best position of anyone to pull of the seemingly herculean task of denuclearizing North Korea, which is run by a government with a history of duplicity.
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Apollo 22019's timeless story of our nation's herculean effort to ensure a successful fulfilment of President Kennedy's vision of landing a man on the moon reveals profound truths we must remember today.
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Craig Thiel, a senior research associate for the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a public policy research group, said conditions had created a "herculean" challenge for anyone to turn around the school system.
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Despite the Herculean task, CDOs are quickly becoming one of the most sought-out jobs in corporate America, so much so that former CEOs are jumping at the opportunity to assume the position.
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In an interview on "Squawk Box" Friday morning, Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett said the bonuses will reward employees for "performing Herculean efforts" and put money into their pockets.
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It would have been a herculean task to transform a chemical company specializing in the production of silver oxide film to a consumer electronics firm, fighting for attention in a low-margin industry.
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"To get Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm to even operate on the same planet is a herculean task," said Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, a dean of leadership studies at the Yale School of Management.
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In an interview on "Squawk Box" last week, Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett said the bonuses will reward employees for "performing Herculean efforts" and put money into their pockets.
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Which brings us to this week -- when it became clear that if Ratcliffe was going to get confirmed, it was going to take a herculean effort by both him and the White House.
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Because any legislation will need Trump's signature, it could ultimately be required to get two-thirds support in both chambers — a Herculean task for a GOP-controlled Congress against a Republican president. Sen.
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For any driver who is not already in the first tier, it requires a herculean effort to move into it, and it can require a lot of unpaid time sitting in the car.
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But the widespread abstention anticipated, Maduro's formidable political machinery, the vote-winning power of state handouts, coercion of government employees, and the pro-Maduro makeup of the election board make Falcon's task Herculean.
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Old systems are difficult to displace in any industry, but the complexity of insurance, tradition of relying on the past to predict the future and silos of data can make it a Herculean effort.
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It's a Herculean test: The race starts with a 2.4-mile open swim (Sewell's strong suit), then a 102-mile bike ride (his weak spot) and ends with a 26.2-mile run to finish.
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Shore Rug's Herculean silicone cord carpet, Cruise: Blue 3/ Blue 9, measuring eight by 20 feet, is handmade and meant to be an indoor/outdoor flooring solution that is UV resistant, waterproof, and durable.
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When Jennifer Plozai joined the public relations side of the Transportation Security Administration in 6900, she was put in charge of a Herculean task: turn a loathed government agency into a helpful travel buddy.
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I have a video of my Herculean efforts to smile before reverting to my resting grump face: What's more — and better — is that Motion Stills just works as a GIF or a short movie.
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The herculean effort required to unlock the insights of nondigital records and tap into the huge amounts of data siloed away across individual health systems could hinder the development of robust predictive care models.
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The reopening of the busy north-south coastal highway followed what the state transportation agency Caltrans called a "Herculean effort," and was expected to ease hours-long detours and traffic chaos that bedeviled commuters.
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Worry not, noble college freshmen currently racking up herculean amounts of debt to live in a squalid dorm room with someone who clips their toenails four feet away from you—HBO has you covered.
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Sunday night's episode has already been dubbed the best season premiere since the pilot, packing in a herculean amount of reunions and revelations into its comparatively short runtime: Jon and Arya back together again!
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It required a herculean effort by a graduate student, Theo Roth, to finally figure out the right molecular mixture of genes, gene-editing tools and electrical fields to modify T-cells without a virus.
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And in an embrace laden with political symbolism, Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, introduced Mr. Bloomberg at two events as a herculean champion of the environment and a master of business and government.
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The startup was building its own logistics network, a herculean task that even Flipkart and Amazon avoided to a certain measure for years, yet it was reaching an audience that had never sold online.
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Even if Mr. Byford can secure financing for his plan — no easy feat in a notoriously dysfunctional State Capitol — it will be a herculean task to deliver such a massive overhaul of the subway.
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The RWA also needs to fill several vacant seats and choose a new leader, a Herculean task made even more difficult by the erosion of trust and conflicts of interest the scandal has created.
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Adapting any prose novel to the graphic format is an audacious undertaking at the best of times, but translating Octavia E. Butler's fearsomely powerful work in particular must surely have been a herculean task.
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He faces a Herculean task to turn around the moribund economy, with the bolivar currency down 99 percent in the past year and inflation at an annual 14,000 percent, according to the National Assembly.
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For Drootin, Master of None's penultimate season two episode, "Amarsi Un Po'," hinged on the titular Lucio Battisti song, and tracking down the rights holder — Battisti's widow, Grazia Letizia Veronese — was a herculean effort.
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Well hung, slung from the fork of the muscular legs, The firm vase of his sperm, like a bulging pear, Cradling its handsome glands, two herculean eggs, Swung as he came towards me, shameless, bare.
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Selecting the wedding dress was a Herculean task that involved the input of a six-person group text, at least one spreadsheet (with formulas), and a Pinterest board featuring every style that you were considering.
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The band became the Southern Hemisphere Herculean rockers they are today after singer Matt Hyde unexpectedly turned up at one of the band's early rehearsals, and promptly announced he was going to be Beastwars' vocalist.
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The producers don't have any affiliation with NASA, but the show serves as a reminder of what can be done with space exploration, and the Herculean efforts expended to get there in the first place.
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In a global financial environment that is both risk-averse and lacking enough ready buyers and sellers, offloading billions of dollars of mortgage securities, interest rate derivatives and leveraged loans has been a herculean task.
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But the Herculean effort he put in to beat Tsitsipas suggested he really wanted to get his hands on the ATP Finals trophy for the first time after finishing runner-up in 2010 and 2013.
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On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Italian chef Massimo Bottura also did the math and was inspired, not by the tantalizing dimensions of herculean consumption but by the prospect of colossal waste.
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And in the World Series that year, Bumgarner turned in a herculean effort by starting and winning Game 53, throwing a shutout in Game 25 and firing five scoreless innings of relief in Game 20.
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Forests now only have two or three guards responsible for protecting thousands of hectares of land; it's both a Herculean and uninspiring task for men paid between 123 and 212 TND ($245-220) a month.
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He cut his teeth at pioneering Internet companies, and since joining Google in 2010 has overseen the herculean task of moving some of its more far-fetched research from the lab into actual consumer products.
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The resulting furor reached the bureau, where a special team began tracking the missing emails — a herculean task that led Comey to conclude that while Clinton had been "grossly negligent," no security breaches had occurred.
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His friends and family say that he would regularly provide food for the homeless and was quick to help someone in need; his Herculean figure and warm personality made him a staple in his community.
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One thing is certain: the more nuclear power plants shut down between now and then, the harder it will be to achieve the already herculean task of cutting carbon emissions over the next 30 years.
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I learned I could do everything my father could do, and in some tasks, such as the taxing chore of feeding newborn calves or the herculean task of halter-breaking a heifer, I surpassed him.
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Each one of those stages required a herculean effort from the art department to move things around, to adjust the landscape, the burned grass, the number of bodies and burn victims and things like that.
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The statement was seen as particularly cheeky coming from an Irishman who will also be responsible for negotiating a trade deal with Britain as part of its withdrawal from the European Union, a herculean task.
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And a likely veto threat would require it to ultimately garner the support of two-thirds of the members in both chambers — a potentially herculean task for a GOP-controlled Congress against a Republican president.
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The comments underscore the herculean task currently facing leadership: with Paul and McCain as "no" votes, leadership has to win over every other member of the Republican caucus that ranges from moderates to firebrand conservatives.
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I grew up in Southern California reading Cadillac Desert [Marc Reisner's classic book about the herculean task of damming the Colorado River and watering the West] as a young journalist writing about water in Los Angeles.
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Among the sea of bickering Chads, one heroic Noisey reader has emerged over the years to take on the Herculean task of listening to and reviewing all 100 albums on Noisey's Albums of the Year list.
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The result is that they can often get samples, for instance, that are far too old and white, requiring them to undertake herculean weighting efforts to bring underrepresented populations up to their share of the electorate.
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In China, by the estimates of the World Health Organization, Xi has pulled off a herculean task in containing the virus, albeit one his own officials allowed to blossom, but it has come at a price.
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Breaking down every factor that leads patients to develop cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer's — and penalizing or rewarding them based on the share they could in theory control — seems a herculean and morally suspect task.
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" The inspector general's report, the department said, "provides a window into the herculean work of the H.H.S. career staff to rapidly identify children in O.R.R. care who had been separated from their parents and reunify them.
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In "Teachers' Herculean Task: Moving 1.1 Million Children to Online School," David W. Chen describes the adjustments and challenges that New York City teachers have faced in their first week of teaching from their own homes.
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To adequately address climate change on the level scientists say we must, the world would need to slash its use of oil, natural gas and coal within 30 years, a Herculean task given our deep dependence.
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For the purposes of comparison, you can set aside Robinson's other 194 fights and simply recognize that going 5-1 against LaMotta was a herculean labor far more impressive than all of Mayweather's victories put together.
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Given the herculean nature of the effort, and the cultural shifts it demanded, many warned that it might take years for the system to come to full fruition — and unwavering political will to see it through.
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Spoiler alert: There's still nothing purple in my son's clothes closet because luring an already particular kid (silky track pants or bust!) to the mall is a herculean task and, frankly, I ran out of time.
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The summary: Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle reteams with Ryan Gosling for this drama focused on the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong — and the herculean effort to land a human being on the Moon.
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And the White House director of legislative affairs, Marc Short, told reporters there was "no artificial timeline" for a deal on so-called Dreamers and that it would be "herculean" to get it done by this week.
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It is a waste of herculean effort in pursuit of something astoundingly trivial—not to put too fine a point on it, but who fucking cares which country wins the most medals in a given Olympics, really?
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He sees politics less on a Labour-Tory spectrum and more as part of a Herculean struggle between brilliance and mediocrity (how he and the pooterish Mr Duncan Smith ever thought they would get on is unclear).
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He blamed the GOP Freedom Caucus for its ideological commitment without recognizing the herculean feats required of the Democratic troika to bring together their own disparate factions behind the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the first instance.
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I could picture herculean athletes hurling the discus, boxing, wrestling or chariot-racing to take home the top prize, a simple crown — olive branches at Olympia, laurel at Delphi, wild celery at Nemea and pine at Isthmia.
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Nothing before the last US election had so focused Vladimir Putin's attention on domestic American politics quite like that lawyer's legacy, the Magnitsky Act, which Congress passed in 2012 after herculean efforts by Moscow to stop it.
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And hoisting standard juicers up (or down) onto said small countertops is such a herculean feat that we Manhattanites would often rather walk 20 blocks to Juice Press than attempt to set the very heavy things up.
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Of the 11 publicly out men at Rio, none hailed from the US. The NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB are the pinnacle of American sports, and their athletes command Herculean levels of physical, emotional, and mental toughness.
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Sources and competitors of Mr. Swan, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because, well, it's Washington, described a hustler and charmer with a herculean work ethic, often squeezing in four source meetings a day.
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As it is, the work, led by the former music producer Alan Elliott, to assemble the version we have — to get the sound as close to perfectly synced as it now is — was herculean yet possibly incomplete.
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In the late 1940s, the Marshall Plan, the herculean development project helmed by Secretary of State George Marshall, flooded postwar Europe with money and advisers to help rebuild cities, advance democracy and form an integrated economic zone.
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Doug Mills, a Times photographer who covers the White House, has shot more than 12,000 pictures since January alone, making the task of narrowing those down to 100 initially, and later to just two, a herculean challenge.
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And the White House director of legislative affairs, Marc Short, told reporters there was no artificial timeline for a deal on so-called Dreamers and that it would be "herculean" to get it done by this week.
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Just as Roberto Rossellini's "Stromboli," from 1950, functions as both a drama and a record of an unimaginably bounteous tuna mattanza in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Smiley film depicts bygone and herculean nature-wrangling, on Lake Mohonk.
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"I think we've just got to watch the data very closely over the coming weeks before we make any predictions," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Wednesday, while praising China's "Herculean efforts" to contain the virus.
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"It was already going to be a herculean task in making the numbers work over a 10-year time frame; when you begin to add in transportation, walls, tax cuts, it becomes an impossible task," said Rep.
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They found a task so Herculean that no amount of money, technology, or manpower has been able to provide a comprehensive solution to a problem that can influence our politics, mental health, and society as a whole.
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And yet, so far it's been a massive dud, largely due to the herculean efforts of the McMahon siblings to couch the impending brand split in terms that would make the most buttoned-up HR manager yawn.
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This isn't the only path for making big CO2 cuts, but it gives a sense of the sheer scale and speed required: 2017-2020: All countries would prepare for the herculean task ahead by laying vital policy groundwork.
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"Being able to protect the entire cyber attack surface that is present in our lives, and doing it entirely manually, is a herculean task," says David Melski, the vice president of research at computer security software developer GrammaTech.
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The phase-out of the electric vehicle tax break confronts Tesla with the choice of raising prices at the risk of losing customers or slashing costs by thousands of dollars per vehicle, a herculean task for an automaker.
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Read: Watch a Herculean Madman Do an Insane Obstacle Course and Get Crowned 'American Ninja Warrior' The Aichi region in Japan is looking to hire six full-time ninjas to help boost tourism in its area, BBC reports.
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Earlier, a Comcast technician was shown in a video sleeping on a customer's couch, and an audio recording chronicled one man's herculean efforts to drop Comcast service; they are among the embarrassing customer complaints that ultimately forced improvements.
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Only six women — Court, Billie Jean King, Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams — have won Wimbledon straight after the French, however, and it would take a "Herculean" effort for Barty to join that group, says Evert.
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Beyond the poetic justice of defeating a women-enslaving terrorist organization on Women's Day, it would be an opportunity for U.S. officials to acknowledge the herculean efforts of Kurds, Arabs and Syriac Christians like Moustafa, Hassan and Gawyria.
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In that role, Downton Abbey's Harry Hadden-Paton is underrated and brilliant, as he pulls off the herculean feat of staying likable and ensuring that Higgins still makes sense as a character who's, in this production, essentially asexual.
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It may seem like a herculean task, but making friends only gets harder as you grow older, when things like spouses, children, and your fast-approaching mortality get in the way of your quest to meet new people.
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"While it wouldn't be herculean to suggest volatility rises a bit from here, barring anything that comes out of left field, we don't envision a strong advance," said Bryan Reilly, a senior investment analyst at CIBC Atlantic Trust.
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My sister has become an expert at talking my father through his rages — a common feature of dementia — and makes daily, herculean efforts to negotiate with him about basic hygiene, what he eats and how much he smokes.
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Getting Trump on board with an idea and then ensuring he sticks with his position has been a herculean lift on health care, tax reform and even a key government spying program like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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As demonstrated above, any single emissions source measured against the herculean scale of the energy system will look small, but Aliso Canyon reminds us that aging facilities that produce, transport, and store natural gas need to be closely monitored.
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It would take a Herculean effort to chronicle all the fatalistic missives that have been issued in the postwar era, but one of the most notable comes from Henry Kissinger, perhaps the best-known statesman-cum-strategist alive today.
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It's 2019, and testifying in front of the nation about a report that synthesizes hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence into a still-lengthy 397-pages is a herculean task even for someone who wrote the damn thing.
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At a time when you're getting by on so little sleep that you may qualify for insanity, and your body is changing its shape and size practically by the hour, assembling any kind of outfit becomes a Herculean task.
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So, putting aside non-complex drug cases or street offenses, the amount of documents that must be shared with the defense pre-trial under what is called Rule 16 (of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure) has become Herculean.
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But a major renegotiation that would satisfy the autoworkers, small farmers and other aggrieved groups in both countries would be a herculean task — assuming the next American president really goes there, whatever he or she promises at election time.
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The troubles are a window into the Herculean task dos Santos faces in turning around Sonangol's fortunes during a prolonged oil price rout, and also of the concerns swirling around Sonangol and the government over a lack of transparency.
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The group needs to raise $400,153 in the next few weeks to survive the transition, and then it will still need $1.7 million more to make it through 2020—an already Herculean fundraising effort coinciding with a global pandemic.
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The Chinese are fighting back with their own harsh rhetoric, all while signaling that their herculean effort to eradicate the virus means the world should look to them – and not the United States — as a leader and role model.
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The extra preparations come after the Iowa results set off a wave of panic at the beginning of what has been an angst-ridden month for a party that already faces the Herculean task of unseating an incumbent president.
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Biased management, a history of promoting some people based on their achievements and not others, a lack of trust in company authority — correcting these issues can take a Herculean effort, and sometimes even requires a drastic overhaul in leadership.
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And really good independent bookstores will carefully curate their stock, so that the books on offer reflect the preferences and personalities of the people who work there: a Herculean task that requires enormous amounts of both taste and knowledge.
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The former Das Racist member and senior VICE parenting correspondent dropped a 100-song album at the end of 2015, which is a Herculean number of songs and would earn any normal artist at least a solid year of creative hibernation.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it would be a Herculean task for Greece to handle the returns and the chairman of the EU leaders' summits, European Council President Donald Tusk, said the deal was not a silver bullet.
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Argentina, who were held to a 1-1 draw by tiny Iceland, and Brazil, who shared the spoils with Switzerland, both came up against teams happy to sacrifice attacking intent in favor of rigid defensive organization and Herculean levels of industry.
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The new schedule means that the Met sometimes mounts four different productions in the 48 hours between Friday and Sunday evening — a truly herculean task that the company performs on a scale that is unusual, if not unique, in the world.
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Yes, but: Meeting the 1.5-degree target would require a Herculean effort to transform how we generate and use energy, invent new ways to store carbon, slash non-carbon greenhouse gases like methane and drastically scale up renewable energy sources.
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The eight-hour vote across a country that stretches more than 5,000 km (3,413 miles) from its western to eastern tips was both a Herculean logistical feat and testimony to the resilience of democracy two decades after authoritarianism was defeated.
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The eight-hour vote across a country that stretches more than 214,000 km (3,000 miles) from its western to eastern tips is both a Herculean logistical feat and testimony to the resilience of democracy two decades after authoritarianism was defeated.
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We asked some of our favourite people in food and drink—from chefs to restaurant critics to food writers—what they eat when they're hanging and gross AF and even just opening the Deliveroo app feels like a Herculean task.
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But after talking to Senate and White House sources through the weekend, here's why I think there's a chance that the motion-to-proceed vote succeeds: It's a herculean task, but we shouldn't assume the margin for error is one vote.
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If you've been reading this column for the past two years, I'm a broken record on pointing this out, but there's something strange about how easy it is to be bad and how herculean it is to make good things.
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"It's going to be a herculean effort on fundraising for the House," said one Republican involved, predicting a massive focus on outside money routed through groups like the Congressional Leadership Fund, whose president roamed the Stein Eriksen Lodge this weekend.
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It is also home to the "riggers," the Met's Herculean movers, whose day might begin by adjusting a wooden bench in the American Wing and end by dragging a nine-ton Egyptian statue from one part of the museum to another.
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As the lead coordinator for the government's response to the 503 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, he directed tens of thousands of responders as they attempted a herculean task: recovering 200 million gallons of crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico.
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"The NSA has made Herculean, extensive efforts to devise a counting strategy that would be accurate," Dan Coats, a career Republican politician appointed by Republican President Donald Trump as the top U.S. intelligence official, testified to a Senate panel on Wednesday.
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That's a herculean task for GOP leadership, who have shown no inclination to bring up the legislation, much less stage Trump's first veto override going into a midterm election where they are increasingly anxious about holding on to their majorities.
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New York will probably become the second state to ban single-use plastic bags And with it, the Herculean task of carrying 245 grocery bags into the house at the same time so you don't have to make a second trip.
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In a short video of the stunt, Fred makes some light small talk with bar patrons about Westworld, the weather, and the impending robot apocalypse, before he appears to malfunction and smash a pint glass inside his herculean robot fist.
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Bharatdas Darshandas, the lone inhabitant and caretaker of a Hindu temple deep in the Gir Forest, has become a symbol of India's herculean effort to ensure that the votes of every one of its 21999 million eligible voters is counted.
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Residential building efficiency has been hyped as an easy, cost-positive way to reduce energy use and emissions forever, but it has proven a Herculean task to induce homeowners to actually do anything — at least anything more difficult than flipping a light switch.
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But conducting the eight-hour vote in a country that stretches more than 5,000 km (3,000 miles) from its western to eastern tips proven to be both a Herculean logistical feat and deadly for officials, who had to count ballot papers by hand.
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"It was a Herculean task to get the parents to send their kids to school, as for them it meant the loss of a pair of hands to earn extra money," said Manish Joshi, a deputy commissioner at the Thane municipal corporation.
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The Herculean senior currently trains at Gold's Gym in Venice, which he calls the "Mecca of Bodybuilding," but he won't compete again until next August (when he'll start a meticulous high-protein, high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet a month before competition).
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When a friend managed to drag him to the hospital, McKagan learned that his Herculean daily drinking—a half-gallon of vodka, plus bar-hopping with the bandmates, every single day for years—had engorged his pancreas to the size of a football.
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"The BoE's hands are tied at tomorrow's meeting and it will be a Herculean task to signal credibly to the market when it intends to implement the planned rate hike," Antje Praefcke, currency strategist at Commerzbank, wrote in a note to clients.
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Brazil is launching a herculean effort to fumigate Rio for mosquitoes, and most of the Olympics events will be held in that one city, but it has a native population of 12.9 million sharing a varied geography that includes rain forest and beaches.
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Delays, "holds," hearings, inquiries and recriminations of the president's picks have rendered the process of Senate confirmation—albeit with a Republican majority in the upper chamber—a herculean task aggravated at times by indecorous and unsavory theatre at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Cobbling together a coalition broad enough to pass anything is often a Herculean task, and the responsibility for failing to do so ought not rest only on conservatives baffled that Republicans can't pass what they already did numerous times under President Obama.
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Neighborhood Joint 10 Photos View Slide Show ' If you are anywhere near the corner of Nostrand and Avenue D in Brooklyn, it would take an almost herculean effort to ignore Taste the Tropics USA, Jerry Zirino's West Indian-themed ice cream parlor.
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"We continue to believe that despite the impressive 2Q demand rebound, the ability to hit its aggressive FY19 unit guidance of 360k to 400k will be a Herculean task," Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, told clients ahead of the earnings report.
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According to Jordain Carney, Risch, a low-profile senator who sticks closely to Trump, wants a bill that can win over the Senate and the White House, a potentially herculean goal given the deep divisions in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death.
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Republicans have established tax reform as the next major piece of their agenda that they would like to get to the President's desk -- but compared to the health care battle, pushing a sweeping tax bill through Congress appears to be a Herculean lift.
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Throw in an anticipated troop draw down in Afghanistan involving about 7,000 more troops, and the next defense secretary faces a herculean task that includes the unenviable job of convincing coalition members to stay engaged in missions we are turning away from.
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On the defensive side, Herculean efforts were made by the Obama DOJ and FBI to stonewall the Clinton investigation, not out of any real love for Hillary but because they needed to ensure a Democratic win and the continuance of their "transformative" agenda.
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Most of the seized pangolin scales have turned up in shipping containers in Hong Kong's port, the fifth largest in the world, where inspecting more than a sliver of the nearly 21 million containers that pass through annually would be a herculean task.
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So it was fitting to end the weekend with Karin Sander's performance "Hitting the Highest Notes," in which nine musicians, standing atop an empty building in the rundown neighborhood of İbrahimpaşa, put in a herculean effort to reach the highest note possible.
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In the land of Herculean tech geniuses and some of the most well-educated engineers on the planet, the solution to the poop problem is five guys going around with a pressure washer spraying down the offensive piles before anyone has a chance to complain.
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"The BoE's hands are tied at tomorrow's meeting and it will be a Herculean task to signal credibly to the market when it intends to implement the planned rate hike," Antje Praefcke, a currency strategist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, wrote in a note to clients.
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But while the solution unveiled on Friday appears to have taken the onus off the government, Monte dei Paschi faces a Herculean task convincing investors to back a third recapitalisation in as many years and avert a banking crisis that would send shockwaves across Europe.
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In the show Hammons assembled a herculean 36-foot Exquisite Corpse consisting of sketches by 74 artists including Romare Bearden, William S. Burroughs, Mel Edwards, Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Betye Saar, and culminates in a video where Hammons unfolds the illustrations on camera.
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Even setting aside the sweating philosophical toil of algorithmically sifting for some kind of universal truth, were Mountain View to truly live up to its own mission statement it would entail massive philanthropic investments in global Internet infrastructure coupled with Herculean language localization efforts.
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The manual states that such disclosures could "jeopardize the investigation of a case," which seems like a lessened concern if the president shuts down the Russia inquiry, or "unfairly damage the reputation of a person," which would be a Herculean feat in Trump's instance.
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GENEVA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) member states agreed on Friday to a new chair for talks to end harmful fishing subsidies, though an NGO said it would still take a "Herculean" effort to reach a deal before an end-December deadline.
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Others, including some who worked in Mr. Clinton's administration, like the idea of him as Middle East peace envoy, given his herculean efforts in the region during his presidency, or as a kind of jobs mastermind focused on rebuilding the most struggling regions of America.
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In an interview on "Squawk Box" on Friday morning, Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, said the bonuses will reward employees for "performing Herculean efforts" and to put money into their pockets during the uncertain economic times because of the coronavirus.
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" Behind closed doors, top officials including Dr. Anthony Fauci and HHS Secretary Alex Azar say Pence has done a good job communicating the herculean task ahead, but aides say at times those comments have been dwarfed by something the President says hours later. "Mr.
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Even if the system was 100 percent effective (a herculean prospect) and North Korea was intent on striking the United States preemptively (a dubious assessment), Pyongyang could overwhelm our system by building more missiles than we have interceptors, a more cost-effective and simpler task.
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That's a herculean task in itself: The state is already straining to cope with sharp swings in solar power during afternoons and will soon have to juggle ever-larger shares of intermittent renewable electricity, by deploying batteries, reworking its grid or taking other novel approaches.
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How he managed to drag a couch down the subway stairs—and get it past the turnstiles, and push it inside the car before the doors closed, and avoid getting stopped by an MTA employee—remains a mystery, but more importantly, a Herculean achievement.
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What's next: Guterres said he intends for at least some leaders to present specific plans on Monday toward reaching a 2050 goal of "carbon neutrality," a Herculean effort given the significant dependence on carbon-emitting activities most countries engage in for energy, agriculture and manufacturing.
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Even after an ugly loss to Texas this week, West Virginia is in the mix for a Big 12 conference championship, and seeing as the Big 12 is clearly the best conference in the country so far this year, that would be a Herculean achievement.
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When weighing the plot of the new movie "Passengers," it's virtually impossible not to consider the broader context of humanity's growing reliance on technology, society's deepening interest in commercial space travel — and the Herculean task facing billionaires pioneering the development of the modern era's space race.
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As their most recent film, "Avengers: Endgame," just crossed the box office threshold to displace "Avatar" as the top-grossing film of all time, the brothers admit the capstone of 11 years of Marvel storytelling was a Herculean effort that, if gone awry, could have broken them.
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He was not Muhammad Ali the prize fighter or Muhammad Ali the world champion, he was Muhammad Ali 'The Greatest…' With the cut throat quickness of a street fighter and the simple grace of a ballerina Ali moved with Achilles like agility and punched with herculean strength.
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Yet, by going it alone in confronting China and demanding the transformation of its economy as a condition of any deal, Washington is unlikely to succeed, despite its herculean effort with tariffs, investment restrictions, export controls and other means of exerting pressure on the middle kingdom.
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Her achievements are herculean: an escaped slave herself, she was instrumental in organizing the Underground Railroad, and would help ferry hundreds of people to freedom; later, she was a well-known abolitionist speaker, and even served as a scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.
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The agency employs 36 people, who, lacking a unified database, must manually cross-reference each declaration with separate property and tax registries - a Herculean task considering many forms run to dozens of pages, listing millions of dollars in cash, fleets of luxury cars and tracts of land.
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They've figured out the arcane rules and regulations so they can ship in most of the US. (Oxman said they're over the "90 percent threshold" in terms of the number of people they can reach within the country.) It's a herculean -- or would it be Dionysian?
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Unlike Hillary Clinton in 2016, Gillibrand wore being a woman on her sleeve, and even though she has gracefully bowed out to focus on the Herculean task of winning back the Senate for Democrats in 2020, her campaign holds many future lessons for those like it.
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"The idea of bringing direct air capture up to 10 billion tons by the middle or later part of the century is such a herculean task it would require an industrial scale-up the likes of which the world has never seen," Princeton's Stephen Pacala told me.
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For Chopra, sports is the ultimate non-denominational church, and the narratives that are spun through its lens around mythical heroes like Strahan and Brady who perform Herculean feats, or the pilgrimages that fans take to the stadium on game day, hold the same significance as any other liturgy.
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This year we have been confronted with many ugly sides of ourselves — such that even turning on the news can seem like a Herculean task, It's up to us whether or not we'll see these disparities in empathy for what they are or continue to pretend they don't exist.
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The eight-hour vote on Wednesday for both the presidency and legislature seats across a country that stretches more than 5,000 km (3,000 miles) from its western to eastern tips was both a Herculean logistical feat and testimony to the resilience of democracy two decades after authoritarianism was defeated.
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Ross told reporters it was a "herculean accomplishment," and "more than has been done in the whole history of U.S.-China relations on trade," per the AP. But Trump wasn't impressed with this deal — at all — and told our sources he found Ross's boasting to be laughable and ridiculous.
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And it proved a herculean task to get rid of three senior employees directly implicated in the Phoenix VA. All the while, two of them were placed on administrative leave and continued receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in paychecks despite offering no compensable services to the government.
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In the course of justifying Section 702 as an invaluable tool for counterterrorism and counterproliferation efforts, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats claimed that agencies have made "herculean" efforts to get a count on how many Americans have been affected, but in spite of those efforts it remains impossible.
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But now, Johnson felt better prepared to understand and apply the approach preached by Long to Murphy, which led to Murphy's herculean October performance with the Mets and a 2016 season with the Nationals that has made him a candidate for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award.
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The eight-hour vote on Wednesday for both the presidency and legislature seats across a country that stretches more than 5,000 km (3,000 miles) from its western to eastern tips was both a Herculean logistical feat and testimony to the resilience of democracy two decades after authoritarianism was defeated.
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His undying McDonald's love has earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records and in Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, but the dude hasn't eaten a herculean amount of all-beef patties and special sauce for the fame—he just really, really, really likes Big Macs.
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David M. Ceperley, a physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his collaborators worked on herculean computer calculations, each data point the result of about 100 hours on a supercomputer with 10,000 computer cores, to model the transition of liquid hydrogen from insulator to metal.
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Mr. Espy's advisers have told political donors that they believe he needs to mobilize black voters in force and win about a quarter of white voters to defeat Ms. Hyde-Smith, a near-herculean task in a state where the two political parties are split chiefly along racial lines.
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More interesting by far is her complex and genuine relationship with British handler Rosalyn Wilder (Wild Rose's Jessie Buckely, who continues to prove she belongs in every film), burdened with the herculean task of making sure Garland is where she needs to be, and in shape to perform.
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Unfortunately, some have seized on this moment to transform these student-athletes' Herculean victory into a panacea, a pivot and a public relations pitch to erase the trauma of the white supremacist attacks of 2017 that forever marked the University of Virginia and its home, the city of Charlottesville.
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Watching two elite teams push themselves past the point of exhaustion, where even the simplest passes and checks started to become Herculean efforts from players who looked like they were on the cusp of delirium, revealed something essential both about the teams themselves and the sport of hockey itself.
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But the N.F.L. players' union — which sometimes finds itself in the awkward position of defending herculean men who beat women — has contended that the far-reaching powers granted to Jones are supposed to be solely those of the commissioner, and that Friel's investigations can remain open indefinitely, leaving players hanging.
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The coincidental split-screen moment highlighted the herculean task before Trump with now less than 100 days to go in the general election: Desperate for cash, Trump is largely charting his own course, snubbed by traditional Republican donors with the clock winding down for him to finally win them over.
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With a herculean press of two Paul Bunyan-sized buttons, you could record anything that was playing on your TV, provided you could figure out how to run an antenna — or early-days cable — through the VCR and back out to your TV. They even let you schedule a recording.
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With the Federal Reserve facing a Herculean conundrum in unwinding its crisis-era monetary policy — and a likely leadership transition on the horizon — Goldman Sachs suggested on Saturday the central bank could move early to reduce the vast sums of government and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) it holds on its books.
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That's because, as Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck told Mashable, at present, facial recognition tech doesn't do a great job of identifying individuals' ages — hence, it would require a herculean effort to manually weed out photos of children in that data set.
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At the City Ground, the memories of Pearce The Player may be recalled no less fondly in light of his time as manager, but once his adoring public has witnessed him being tactically outwitted by Ian Holloway, surely the perception of Pearce The Herculean Superhero is no longer as self-sustaining.
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Maybe I had some Herculean desire to effect change without losing the press pass that would allow me to do so, but I do know that I could have done a better job at focusing on the talents that placed POC in the positions they landed in the first place.
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" Mr. Jones and his lawyers say in court filings that the Pozner family's suit is an effort "to silence those who openly oppose their very public 'herculean' efforts to ban the sale of certain weapons, ammunition and accessories, to pass new laws relating to gun registration and to limit free speech.
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Over the past week, the Health and Human Services Department has been forced to undertake a herculean effort, deploying hundreds of federal workers, to comply with an injunction of a federal judge in San Diego, who ordered that all families separated under the policy must be reunited by July 26.
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But the herculean efforts by James and Kyrie Irving (who had a nifty 4-point play and is up to 15 points) have not been enough to keep pace with the Warriors, who have opened up a 10-point lead with just over 3 minutes left in the second quarter.
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Contrary to her protestations, while ageism may be part of what's stymieing Madonna — and it's worth noting that she's had seven top 10 singles since her 40th birthday, a herculean achievement in pop — the thing that's most certainly holding her back is music unbefitting and unreflective of her status as pop's Doyenne Supreme.
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The power of Manzoni's art comes not simply from his dedication to essences, but also from the founts of associations that his unvarnished directness allows to percolate, and from the paradoxes that his efforts embody: his work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
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Plus, bringing China into the fold would be a herculean task, even if Trump had a more positive track record negotiating with Xi. China has already said it won't negotiate with countries that have much larger arsenals, and it possesses less than one-tenth the nuclear weapons that Russia and the US have.
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Watching all of the films is a herculean task, considering how many of them are origin stories and their sequels, so here's a guide to the the key players in the film and where they are at the end of Infinity War, plus a "must watch" list in case you're catching up.
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Ahead of the film's release on Netflix today, VICE caught up with France to talk about his desire to tell stories about LGBTQ heroes, the Herculean task of organizing the film's immense amount of archival footage, and what he hopes new generations will take away from the story of Marsha's death and life.
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Johnson privately railed against political betrayals from civil rights leaders, especially King, chafed at the release of the Kerner Commission report on civil disorders that seemed to ignore the herculean legislative achievements of the Great Society in favor of fantastical requests for billions of dollars in aid no Congress would ever approve.
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For one thing, its contestants' struggle is Herculean: The UK's best amateur bakers, week after week, have to produce perfect pastries using a combination of pure luck, snap judgments, and baking magic, which means the results are often as jaw-dropping as they are unpredictable (the bread lion guy didn't even win star baker!).
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With the nuclear deal with Iran and the Trans-Pacific Partnership potentially at risk, and the conflict in Syria and Iraq at a critical point, this task may be far more Herculean than he imagined and most likely not the way he expected to spend his final visit to Europe as Head of State.
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"the Lyft driver asksWish I could say yes but it's too herculean a task before me, a string of cords splits into threebut none of them contain a USB-C At the airport, at the partya gathering at a friend's houseLightning fast appears but all else is denounced "Hey Google, did I upgrade too soon?
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Rodgers has played well the last two weeks (296 of 281, 230 yards, three TDs, no INTs) despite the injury, but the Packers haven't won since the opener, a victory that required a herculean effort from Rodgers in a 227-point comeback against the Chicago Bears after he went down in the first half.
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Despite the hype, enterprise AI is still nascent: Companies may own petabytes of data that can be used for AI, but fully digitizing that data, knowing what the data tables actually contain and understanding who, where and how to access that data remains a herculean coordination effort for even the most empowered internal champion.
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"While demand showed an impressive bounce back in the June quarter and the company is seeing good order activity for 3Q (Europe so far so good, US demand remains lumpy in our opinion), we continue to believe that hitting 360k to 400k unit guidance for FY19 will be a very difficult Herculean-like feat."
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"Amici respectfully suggest that the court's struggle — similar to dozens of other courts' herculean struggles in this area — illustrates the unworkability of the 'right to abortion' found in Roe," they wrote, "and the need for the court to take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled."
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Vows 212 Photos View Slide Show ' Tom Rock and Terry Cosentino had already cleared some impressive hurdles as a couple by the time they appeared in 100 on "The Amazing Race," the CBS reality show in which teams scurry across the globe completing a herculean list of challenges in pursuit of a $1 million prize.
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But if Harper's talents are worth a contract equal to the collective GDP of the islands of Micronesia, what would you pay a guy who could match him swing for herculean swing in a home run derby, and then take the mound and strike him out with straight gas—and is still just 22 years old?
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Getting the achievement by actually hitting the button correctly 1,000 times is such a herculean task that it seems foolish to even attempt, let alone seriously pursue, and I'm not the only person who had that thought while playing based on the various different ways that players have found to bypass or cheat their way to the achievement.
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Both McConnell and Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) have made it a priority to pass all 12 annual appropriations bills in what would be the first time since 1994 — a herculean task even under ordinary circumstances.
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READ MORE COMMENTARY FROM REUTERS Michael Rosenbaum: Here's how to get Congress to fast track health reform John Lloyd: It's time for liberals to fight back And yet despite this Herculean effort, De Mistura has been unable to make any serious headway in a diplomatic process that much of the international community considers dead or dying.
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The good folks at Janus Films have undertaken the herculean work of rebeautifying Bondarchuk's footage, and in 2019, they're getting it back out there: First, a run at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center starting Friday, then a run in Los Angeles, other major cities, and finally, a video/digital release later in the year.
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Neither is guaranteed to succeed, but for people worried about the herculean efforts needed to stop global warming, they're both worth considering seriously: 22) The first option would be for governments and industry to clear away the (many!) obstacles hindering construction of new light-water reactors, the most common type of reactor built in the 23th century.
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Several people who work inside or closely with the department attributed some of the issues to Mr. Wilkie's inattention to the herculean tasks he was supposed to carry out at the long-troubled department as he is seen to be lobbying for other jobs in the administration, most notably secretary of defense, or ponders an eventual career in politics.
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D-Day (or "Operation Overlord" to use its official title) was a herculean planning task, requiring remarkable coordination both between the British, American, Free French, and Commonwealth armies, and with French resistance fighters on the ground, who were charged with helping aerial bombers disrupt German transportation routes, so as to impair the Germans' ability to send reinforcements.
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Officially unveiled today, LG's two new smartwatches have a pretty big weight on their shoulders, as the official ambassadors of Wear 2.0, as the Nexus line has been to Android before it, only with the decidedly more Herculean task of serving as the product ambassador for a wearable operating space that hasn't left much of an impact on market share.
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It is also ridiculous to think that China needed Japan as an ally in its trade dispute with the U.S. No, Abe's comment in 2012 about the importance of China for Japan's economic growth is more valid today than six years ago, and his Herculean efforts to patch up relations with China are testimony to his extraordinary dedication to his country's welfare.
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In a leaked interview published by Wired on Monday, Kushner — President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been tasked with brokering a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians, among other high-profile assignments — provided the deepest insight we've gotten to date about how he is approaching the herculean job of negotiating one of the world's thorniest conflicts.
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And though it may be a herculean challenge, it's a plan that is far from radical and underpinned by access to decent and affordable housing, a chance to go to a school that truly prepares young people for a prosperous future, an opportunity for moms and dads to find living-wage work, and for the whole family, access to high-quality health care.
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Given this history of dominating performances after an All-Star rebuff, the fact that Russell Westbrook just missed out on starting in the Western Conference backcourt, despite his Herculean effort in the season's first half—leading the league in scoring and averaging a triple-double every night—could be the perfect storm that inspires him to even more brain-shattering stat lines.
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Use your strike action to build toward 2020 Even in a best-case strike scenario with millions of participants and a Herculean shift in public opinion, the U.S. still faces the potential reelection of a president who has drastically rolled back environmental protections and given fossil fuel executives so much access to the White House that attendees at a private oil industry meeting erupted in laughter earlier this year.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosTrump aides pushed for states' ability to block migrant kids from enrolling in public schools: report Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid Buttigieg to Detroit audience: Don't judge Indiana by Pence and we won't judge Michigan by DeVos MORE should be commended for her agency's herculean work to roll back many harmful Obama-era regulations that targeted nonprofit and for-profit private colleges.
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Certainly, not every sited festival needs to feature local artists, and FRONT is in its first iteration of a Herculean undertaking, but among all the many exercises and exhibitions, only a small handful seem to consider that the people of Cleveland, and artists of the Midwest, have their own set of concerns and a way of presenting them that offers crucial perspective, much-needed awareness, and an opportunity for acknowledgement and healing.
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All the more astonishing that Crase was doing this in what was simultaneously a form of love poetry, as became clear at the conclusion of that catalogue of Herculean tasks: When these were done, I'd lay around your feet In endless fields where you could enter and belong, A place returning and a place to turn to whole An amorous submission to the conquered beloved, but is it to that recalcitrant country, America itself, or a living and breathing individual?
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While some of the works' candor and earnestness sometimes failed to be matched with formal and aesthetic impact, and while the connection with, and progression from, the art historical legacy of the visionaries of Land Art wasn't always clear, the curators' herculean project and fresh energy offered a much-needed jolt of community and thought away from the hyper-commercialized art capitals — one week ahead of the inaugural edition of Frieze LA and two months before the Coachella music festival.
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" In a press release issued after our interview, Watts added, "My firm has spent tens of millions of dollars and invested tens of thousands of hours, and worked over the past four years with other fine law firms across the Corn Belt, who collectively applied the herculean pressure required to force Syngenta to settle this case brought on behalf of American corn farmers for $1.5 billion … I worked diligently and ethically to achieve the task I was appointed to undertake, and did so at the direction of two excellent special masters operating under the careful supervision of three judges, in both state and federal courts.
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Meanwhile, boy starts hearing terrifying voices in his head, beset by demons from within and without (his sadistic tyrant of a father, his asshole cousin) boy loses mind and, eventually, the confidence of his band mates who pull the plug on his game-changing "teenage symphony to God" originally called Dumb Angel, but later re-titled Smile, boy retreats into a years-long bedroom hermitage of Herculean drug consumption, morbid obesity and sweet insanity; columnated ruins domino, family hires Mephistophelian psychiatrist/psychic vampire Dr. Eugene Landy, who switches out boy's steady diet of cocaine, Scotch, sloth, and self-pity for a zombie-fying regimen of prescription narcotics, fitness Nazism, and 24-7 mind control; boy meets girl (Melinda Ledbetter, his soon-to-be second wife) at a Cadillac dealership and falls in love, girl rescues boy from the clutches of the evil doctor, boy lives happily ever after, or a reasonably close approximation thereof.
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