It's a thankless task to run a warehouse for waste.
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Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.
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Caitriona Balfe does a great job with a thankless task.
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Theirs is a thankless task: They must know they are lying.
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Predicting the onset of a recession is often a thankless task.
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Upsetting the entrenched power structure of cities is an exasperating, thankless task.
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One has to feel for Roth, who has an entirely thankless task.
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DIVINING meaning in the Trump administration's trade announcements is a thankless task.
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Making pizza at home may seem like a daunting and thankless task.
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If you think parenting is a thankless task, believe me, I get it.
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Plus, parenthood seemed like one more thankless task whose burden fell disproportionately on women.
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That's serious yeoman's work, performing the thankless task always in service of the larger story.
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Hamas gave up the bureaucracy, handing Fatah the thankless task of providing public services in Gaza.
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Other times, it means killing the Mad King, even though you know it's a thankless task.
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JOHN CRYAN has spent almost three years on the thankless task of revitalising Germany's biggest bank.
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Gaethje's forward pressure, high guard, and projected forehead mean that punching him is a thankless task.
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Nikki Haley delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union tonight, a generally thankless task.
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Hugh Armitage, DigitalSpy: Poor, talented Michelle Williams is given the thankless task of the film's resident girlfriend.
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Poor Lue was frequently given the thankless task of guarding Iverson — and that's where we begin. Unforgettable.
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All of which suggests that being press secretary to this particular president is an utterly thankless task.
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Meanwhile, Justin Cunningham, a talented performer, has the egregiously thankless task of portraying Benny, Bertha and Julynne.
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Tending to an infant's needs before they can even crack a smile is often a thankless task.
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Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 6 — $19.99 See Details Putting together slides for a presentation is a thankless task.
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When I regained consciousness, we delved into the difficult and thankless task of fixing me (and my profile). 1.
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A sampling of their responses: Thank goodness someone undertook the thankless task of mansplaining the romance genre to me!
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That reporter was me, that thankless task among the more difficult in my more than 25 years in newspapers.
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Guinness said he took up the thankless task to show solidarity for his cat that lost its paw in an accident.
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A UN mission, whether a multi-agency presence as in Myanmar or one of its 15 peacekeeping operations, can be a thankless task.
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"Kersey was maybe 6'5", 6'6" tops," he says of the man given the thankless task of guarding Bird for much of the night.
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The surprise turned out to be that hosting the Oscars is no longer considered a particularly plum assignment but rather a thankless task.
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Instead, he was given a difficult job in South Wales, a thankless task with a club that has been floundering for some time now.
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Charging the batteries of shareable electric scooters overnight — the latest entry in our metastasizing gig economy — can be a bit of a thankless task.
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While submitting a study can lead to a publication that is valuable for an academic's career, peer-review can be a more thankless task.
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Their product line is best described as timeless essentials done mercilessly well — which, for a primarily online brand, could be seen as a thankless task.
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He was a third-string center whose main job was to face off in practice against the starting defensive unit, a punishing and thankless task.
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Dinnin described the job of running the facility as a thankless task, and one his organization took on grudgingly with the kids' best interests in mind.
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It might seem that trying to reinvent such gatherings is a thankless task in a world where we can instantly communicate in so many virtual ways.
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Since predicting the actions and moods of the man in the White House is a notoriously thankless task, I will have to leave it at that.
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Being the woman to restore order as others fight can be a thankless task, whether it's on the debate stage or in a more ordinary workplace.
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Abroad, he has taken aim at the belief, embraced by every post-war president, that America gains from the often thankless task of being the global hegemon.
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And they'll owe it all to a handful of unsung heroes who labored for years at a thankless task to ensure the kilogram remains truly constant forever.
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So says Fredrick Lokule, a veteran civil servant who is passionate about bureaucracy, of all things — specifically tax collection, the thankless task that any functioning state requires.
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They said covering Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was a thankless task, that the most perfect Christmas song could not be improved upon.
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They are allowed to be sillier than either of the two stars, who are saddled with the thankless task of providing sentimental ballast that nobody really needs.
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You can appreciate why reassurance would be important to the man charged with the seemingly thankless task of midwifing the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump.
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I offered to help with farmwork, but nobody dared put me to such a thankless task, because I was a judge's son and my arms were so thin.
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Abiteboul said being an engine provider was an often thankless task but the rules, with a driver's allocation reduced to three units from four, made reliability even more important.
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In a passage I can relate to too poignantly, she consoles herself that Joan Didion honed her prose style in the equally thankless task of drafting captions at Vogue.
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In some ways, it's a relief that the first lady is rarely called upon to perform the thankless task of trying to convince the country that her husband respects women.
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Dan Baldwin, a former attaché in Beijing now serving as head of a regional office of the Office of Global Enforcement, was assigned the thankless task of massaging the news.
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Watching him work — equally fluent in Spanish, English and baseball — he seems well suited for that thankless task, but not in a way that can be easily articulated or proved.
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The one app that is getting a big update this year is Photos, which Apple launched last year with the thankless task of replacing iPhoto and smoothing over years of frustration.
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But grown-up Carl is awfully bland — whether because being a narrator is a thankless task, or because his off-the-wall family made him want to become as milquetoast as possible.
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This was a thankless task that I viewed as something like being on jury duty in exchange for being permitted to use the internet, upon which much of my life was built.
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May, and a victory for Conservative colleagues who chose her as leader not to help them win elections but to finish the thankless task of navigating Britain's departure from the European Union.
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And British Prime Minister Theresa May is still struggling to complete her country's exit from the European Union, a thankless task that has earned her both ridicule and rivals from her own party.
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His thankless task: To get back a license that would allow the troubled car-hailing company to operate in its key European market after it was deemed "unfit" to operate a taxi service.
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But Pixar managed to win over audiences with a wide-eyed waste compactor named Wall-E who's assigned the thankless task of cleaning up the heaps of trash humans have left all over Earth.
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The thankless task of convincing everyone to unite and turn back this formidable foe falls upon the heroic-but-gloomy Jon Snow, former commander of the Night's Watch and reluctant King of the North.
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Give much of the credit to McGregor in the thankless task of playing opposite his adorably furry co-stars, ably handling the comedy derived from the fact that he doesn't dare let others see them.
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Experienced foreign policy hands sigh at such conditions, noting that being a superpower has often been a thankless task, and that America accrues great benefits as well as costs from being a global guarantor of security.
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But even with weekly grosses exceeding a million dollars, "China Doll," which is directed by Pam MacKinnon (a thankless task), soon found itself being circled by theater vultures for whom the scent of disaster is an aphrodisiac.
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"President Trump's Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive," the editorial board wrote.
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Obama's joke, silly as it was, was a recognition that they're on the same page here, that he recognizes she has the temperament for this thankless task, a steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes.
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Even in uncontroversial years, hosting the Oscars can be a thankless task in which a good host may be praised briefly but a bad job - like the awkward 2011 stint by Anne Hathaway and James Franco - is remembered for years.
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Perhaps Kamala D. Harris, whose talents are currently being wasted setting Matt Gaetz straight on Twitter (truly a thankless task if there ever was one), when she could be marshaling an entire country into an orderly, guideline-abiding response to the crisis.
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One of the challenges in booking an Oscar host has been that it now seems like such a thankless task, with logical A-list names shying away from being placed under that microscope (see Kevin Hart's experience), in a "Life's too short" manner.
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To be sure, anyone serving as press secretary for Mr. Trump has a thankless task, and Mr. Spicer's turn at the controls of the Trump train has been bumpy enough to deter several Republican strategists from seeking a job in the White House.
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Nate McMillan could face a thankless task when the Indiana Pacers head coach makes out his lineup for Wednesday night's home contest with the Atlanta Hawks, considering he had no idea Tuesday if any of his top four scorers are healthy enough to play.
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Come January, when the next president takes office and starts the difficult, thankless task of building alliances and getting laws passed, he or she may look back at the Al Smith dinner wistfully, as a wasted chance to start healing a bitterly divided nation.
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All too often, the only time anyone worries about the vision of the project as a whole is at the very beginning, when the overworked project manager(s) initially deal(s) with the thankless task of decomposing the entire project into a forest of tickets.
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The fact that Republicans have ruled out a hearing makes the situation unique and formidable for whoever is chosen and agrees to take on what could be a frustrating and thankless task at a moment that is usually the pinnacle of a legal career.
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True story: As the executive branch of the American government is revealed to be a sinkhole of corruption and deceit, a career F.B.I. man with silver hair and a reputation for righteousness takes up the thankless task of investigating the suspected wrongdoing and attendant cover-up.
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The other is Patricia, Baroness Scotland, a Dominica-born former attorney-general of Britain, who as secretary-general for the past three years has had the thankless task of trying to revive an outfit that, apart from the occasional sporting and heads-of-country jamboree, is widely reckoned to be pretty pointless.
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So I'll close by saying that their "son" has maybe the most thankless task of the Cold War — pose as a high school student so that your "parents" are eventually invited over for dinner — and if FX is moved to produce a spinoff on his journey, I am very, very here for it.
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But he ultimately decided not to run, in part because Cameron has refused to actually take the steps necessary to cause the UK to leave the EU. That means that Johnson, had he won, would've had the thankless task of actually leaving, which he knows could have major disastrous economic consequences for which he'd then be blamed.
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Descending from the Jupiter-like heights that have marked the early months of his presidency (an attempt to reignite French pride through the Gaullist majesty of his office), Macron was frank and chatty as he outlined his ideas to cajole Trump from self-defeating rage toward productive reason — a thankless task in which the French upstart should have the world's full backing.
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It's fitting that these Mojave Desert dwellers would play Melbourne's most celebrated enclave for sweaty mosh pits and stage diving just days after the Nielsen report was published; Homme and Co. had a new full-length on the way with the Mark Ronson-produced Villains—but that evening they also had the thankless task of comforting thousands of scared shitless rock fans in their favorite dump.
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Historically, shemira was a form of guard duty, to prevent the desecration of the body prior to burial. The body guards, “guardians of the dead,” perform a thankless task—literally.Raphael, Dr. Simcha Paull (1994). Jewish Views of the Afterlife.
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Nyren was Secretary of the Hambledon Club for a time and one of his duties, apparently a thankless task, was to collect from members their subscriptions in arrears. Nyren's son John (1764–1837) was the author of The Cricketers of My Time.John Nyren, The Cricketers of my Time (ed. Ashley Mote), Robson, 1998.
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O'Farrell was tried at Sydney on 30 March 1868. The barrister with the thankless task of defending him was Butler Cole Aspinall, who had previously defended the rebel leaders of the Eureka Stockade. Aspinall sought to have O'Farrell found not guilty by reason of insanity. He cited O'Farrell's history of mental illness and recent release from an asylum.
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No doubt a thankless task. His predecessor had been W. Llewelyn Jones. The distinction between Foresters and Bailiffs was one of both uniforms and jurisdiction. Bailiffs wore broad-brimmed hats and their authority extended over both Crown Lands and State Forests, whereas Foresters wore a smaller cap (La Gerche wore a beret) and were responsible for activities only upon State Forest.
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In ca. 1542 Monluc was sent on a mission to Venice. His assignment was to explain to the Venetians why it had been a good idea for Francis I to ally himself with the Ottoman Turks. It was a thankless task, and a hopeless mission, but one which used Monluc's great gifts of oratory in the service of the King.
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Richard M. Ketchum. The Thankless Task Of Nicholas Trist, American Heritage, August 1970, Volume 21, Issue 5. Trist's negotiation was controversial among expansionist Democrats since he had ignored Polk's instructions and settled on a smaller cession of Mexican territory than many expansionists wanted and felt he could have obtained. A part of this instruction was to specifically include Baja California.
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Blomfeld, Francis and Parkin, Charles Topographical History of the County of Norfolk London 1810 Vol. XI p.147 In 1356 he became Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He was clearly expected by his superiors to find it a thankless task, since he was promised preferment both for his past services and "the labours which he would have to endure".
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The murder of a local drug addict, the hunt for a serial rapist, a hit-and-run involving the spoiled son of an MP, and a robbery at a strip joint all have something in common. Detective Inspector Jack Frost has been assigned with the thankless task of investigating them. Fighting the stress and ignoring his mounting pile of paperwork, Frost soon finds himself up against the various manifestations of criminality...
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However, it was a thankless task for Simonsen, who started his managerial career with a defeat. In 1994 the successful manager from 1981, Ole Fritsen, was named as the new manager of Vejle Boldklub. As a former youth coach in the club, Ole knew all about the many talented young players in VB, amongst which were Kaspar Dalgas and Peter Graulund. Ole started to build up a new team around these young players.
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The best scenes in Rip-Off are done in that style. Parents > aren't depicted as shrill, neurotic harpies and young people aren't given a > self-congratulatory snow job. But Rip-Off is engaged in a thankless task. > Audiences at the recent Canadian Film Awards guffawed every time a screen > character said "groovy," "far out" or "out of sight" (nine of the 13 > features shown had such a character, usually the film's token pothead).
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In 1517, he quelled a May day riot in London with the use of soldiers. On 10 March 1520, Howard was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland. By July 1520, he entered upon the thankless task of endeavoring to keep Ireland in order. His letters contain accounts of attempts to pacify the rival factions of the Earl of Kildare and the Earl of Ormonde, and are full of demands for more money and troops.
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No Fond Return of Love was Pym's sixth novel, published by Jonathan Cape in 1961. During the writing period, Pym noted that she wanted to write a novel about "the lives of ordinary people" . The novel did not receive much critical notice, although was reviewed positively in Tatler, where the reviewer wrote Holt 1990, p. 183: Pym's working title was A Thankless Task, in reference to the live of an indexer and assistant researcher Binding, Paul.
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Although Moss made the best possible Sisyphean effort to defend the indefensible and save his client's life, Pinkard condemned himself by proudly and remorselessly bragging about his efficient "reduction of population," and therefore was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. The judge and prosecutors were moved by Moss' steadfast fortitude in his thankless task, and offered him a place on the Judge Advocate's staff. Moss accepted, and took up helping the surviving Southern blacks as his new cause.
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He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee 1930-32. Running the GOP during the depths of the Depression was a thankless task. After his appointment, the Cincinnati Enquirer referred to Fess as a "party wheelhouse and stand patter of the most approved type," and added "It was Senator Fess's proven ability not only to defend, but to eulogize, the acts of Republican administrations, no matter how unpopular they may be, that led to his selection as national chairman."Cincinnati Enquirer, August 11, 1930, p.
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Sam tells him the saddle is worth about fourteen dollars, but "we're asking thirty-two fifty for it". Sam's father appears, pushes Sam aside and offers to sell it for forty dollars, then thirty-eight, then thirty-six. As Bill leaves without buying, Sam follows him outside and sees Adams drilling volunteer soldiers for the war that is expected to start soon. Walking into a local establishment's drinking area, Adams sees Sam at the bar and tells him that training raw recruits is a thankless task.
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In 1830 he went to Germany to study stained glass design and production under Mayer of Munich. In 1838 he set up his own stained glass studio to design and manufacture windows and in 1841 the business began producing its own glass. William Wailes' home at Saltwell Park, Gateshead In 1842 the architect Augustus Pugin approached Wailes about producing windows for him. Working with Pugin was a thankless task, as Pugin went from one workshop to another in an attempt to get his designs realised at the lowest possible cost.
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Leicestershire's record in 1912 and 1913 was marginally better, although in both seasons they lost more matches than any other side. Shields appears to have been a cheerful captain: Wisden noted again in its review of the 1913 season that he "again faced a somewhat thankless task in the best possible spirit". He missed some matches in 1913, being replaced as wicketkeeper by Tom Sidwell, and at the end of the season he resigned the captaincy. He played only two more matches for Leicestershire, one each in 1914 and 1923.
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The Times stated, "His has been an exacting, delicate and in many respects a thankless task, carried out with unfailing courtesy and devotion to duty."Sir Henry Chilton Leaves Hendaye, The Times, London, 30 December 1937, page 10 Geoffrey Thompson, secretary to the embassy, was chargé d'affaires until Owen O'Malley, who held the rank of minister, took over the embassy at Hendaye. Chilton returned to Hendaye in May 1939 on his way to Madrid to collect his belongings. He was succeeded as ambassador by Sir Maurice Peterson in the autumn of 1939.
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Townshend wrote a new song, "I Believe My Own Eyes", to explain the relationship between Tommy's parents, but otherwise tried to be faithful to the music on the original album. The musical had a mixed response from critics, while Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle thought the show was too passive. Anthony DeCurtis, writing in Rolling Stone, said the orchestra drummer had "the thankless task of having to reproduce Keith Moon's parts". Townshend and Des McAnuff rewrote parts of the musical when it moved from La Jolla to Broadway, to show a darker side for the title character.
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Somewhat like a garbage man making his rounds emptying the trash cans, Death performs a vital but thankless task. When the world ends, it will be his job to (metaphorically speaking) stack the chairs, turn out the lights, and lock the door behind him when he leaves. In many ways, he epitomizes the bleakness of human existence. In Reaper Man, in which he is rendered temporarily mortal (or at least the imagination of being mortal, since his state of being "it/death" is, as mentioned in Discworld Noir, constant), he becomes frustrated and infuriated with the unfair inevitability of death, a theme that continues through later books.
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Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore" from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in "The Law of the Jungle". Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger – fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband, whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger.
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The book was expanded from an article first published in the Antioch Review in 1950, and in the preface to the first edition, Gardner thanks the Review for allowing him to develop the article as the starting point of his book. p. viii Not all material in the article is carried over to the book. For example, in the article, Gardner writes: > The reader may wonder why a competent scientist does not publish a detailed > refutation of Reich's absurd biological speculations. The answer is that the > informed scientist doesn't care, and would, in fact, damage his reputation > by taking the time to undertake such a thankless task. p.
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She was cast as the teenage daughter of Kim Basinger's character who discovers her mother's extramarital affair—a role she shared with Charlize Theron; both actresses portrayed the role at different stages of the character's life. Mark Feeney for The Boston Globe thought of Lawrence's performance as "a thankless task", but Derek Elley from Variety praised her as the production's prime asset, writing that she "plumbs fresher depths" into the film. Her performance earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Emerging Actress at the Venice Film Festival. Also that year, she appeared in the music video for the song "The Mess I Made" by Parachute.
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Arthur Harrison (September 1878 – after 1902) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Small Heath. Harrison was born in the Stirchley district of Birmingham. He went to school in Cotteridge and played football for Linton before joining Small Heath of the Second Division in 1902. He made his debut on 20 December 1902, scoring twice in a 3–1 win at home to Lincoln City, but had the thankless task of trying to dislodge England international Charlie Athersmith from the outside-right position – Harrison's debut was the first game Athersmith had missed since September 1901 – and he played only three more games that season before returning to local football with Brownhills Athletic.
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Stretched to their limits and celebrated as heroes, the chosen will wish they had never been given that thankless task of finding the seven lost Books of History before the Dark One can. Martyn, a new Horde general, emerges and lures Johnis into the Horde city, Thrall, to force him into betraying Thomas. Once there, the chosen four are all caught by the Horde and Johnis is forced to strand Thomas into the desert to die. In the end, Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal are able to save Johnis' mother, retrieve three of the Lost books of History, and recruit the Dark Priest of Teelah's daughter into becoming a member of the forest.
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We had to practically climb to the set: the entire crew has suffered much about the situation, it was certainly the most difficult film I ever did. Vincent Gallo has had the most thankless task of all, having to run barefoot in the snow at those temperatures." Aware of the potential political overtones of the film, Skolimowski initially nearly dismissed the project as being "too political", he strove to make it non-political: "The political aspects of the situation didn’t interest me: to me politics is a dirty game and I don’t want to voice my opinions. What is important is that the man who runs away is returning to the state of a wild animal, who has to kill in order to survive.
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He joined the army at a very young age, and in 1697, he defended Barcelona against a French army. At the beginning of the War of Spanish Succession, he fought with the army of Philip V, but the fall from grace of the Duke of Orléans forced him to Galicia where he joined the Allied anti- Borbón league. He was there appointed a deputy marshal for the Archduke Charles VI. Once in the service of the Habsburgs, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Villaviciosa and in the thankless task of evacuation of Aragon in 1711. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was appointed supreme commander of the forces of Catalonia and was charged with organizing city defenses in the 1713-14 Siege of Barcelona.
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Bleloch described the manufacture of gas as 'a foul and thankless task and very hazardous', and remarkably no fatalities occurred during production. Mustard gas was used in various campaigns during World War II. (see Mustard gas#Use) By the end of the war, Lieutenant-Colonel Bleloch's responsibilities included converting the Klipfontein installation to produce DDT, a conversion which was convenient as it made use of benzene and chlorine, both of which were on hand as surplus stock from the mustard gas days. DDT was used to combat louse-borne typhus fever which at that time had reached epidemic proportions in parts of Southern Africa. His 1947 paper on the conversion delivered to the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, earned him the Society's Gold Medal.
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50 while in Boston at Christmas 1899 she appeared as 'Little Boy Blue' in 12 performances of the children's pantomime Little Red Riding Hood which in early January 1900 moved on to the Casino Theatre in New York, the home of the Broadway adult musical, where the production was transformed with additional female actresses added to the cast in scanty costumes and more risqué songs to cater for an adult audience.By Joseph L. Anderson, Enter a Samurai, Wheatmark (2011) - Google Books pg. 233-234 Next Lessing succeeded Mabelle Gilman as 'Priscilla' in the vaudeville The Rounders (1900) at the Columbia Theatre in Boston. Of her performance in The Rounders a critic wrote: > It is a thankless task, that of successorship which results inevitably in > direct comparisons, but Miss Lessing met the test surprisingly well.
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The Swedish army sent to Germany was only sufficient for taking possession of what had already been conquered by the Allies, but made the all necessary preparations to go on the offensive despite not having the necessary funds. The army's very premise, to suppress Frederick, was found false—on being notified of his victory at Rossbach on 5 November 1757, the Swedish commander Marshal Mattias Alexander von Ungern- Sternberg dared not obey the orders from his government and the French agent Marc René de Montalembert to lead his ill-equipped army in a march on Berlin, instead returning in November 1757 to Swedish Pomerania, where the Swedes were being besieged by the Prussians at Stralsund and Rügen. Von Ungern-Sternberg relinquished command on 21 December 1757 to Gustaf von Rosen, but von Rosen too was forced to lie idle, blockaded by the Prussians. This blockade was lifted by an invading Russian army on 18 June 1758, but von Rosen had grown tired of his thankless task and handed command over to Gustav David Hamilton.
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