(a.) Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.
(a.) Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) That one of the country’s top legal minds has been drawn in to defend Sir Philip’s actions shows how Herculean that task is.
(2) O’Leary said he expects “a Herculean growth” in traffic during the quieter winter, with slightly lower fares and high forward bookings leading the airline to predict 20% more passengers.
(3) So is Moretti suggesting a kind of "macro-criticism", which can know the whole of literature without undertaking the Herculean task of reading it all?
(4) On Sunday, after he officially becomes president, Macron is expected to first announce his prime minister and then address the Herculean task of turning his rebranded 13-month-old movement into a fully functioning political party capable of winning an absolute majority.
(5) The task is herculean, the mission quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely irresistible for any ambitious architect.
(6) Although warnings about the delegations and agenda for the Geneva talks may yet be overcome, the disputes underline the Herculean diplomatic task of trying to align so many interests, factions and regional powers.
(7) Despite significant additional funding and a huge effort to contain deficits, it is clear that this is going to be a herculean challenge.’ Health minister David Prior said: “As the King’s Fund makes clear, this government is investing significant additional funding in the NHS, an extra £10bn a year by 2020, which is only possible thanks to our strong economy.
(8) No more talk of herculean efforts to win gold, no more hammering of iron rings of fire, no more warm fuzzy feelings towards our national broadcaster.
(9) She added that the single most "herculean task of our times", at a time of increasing competition from Asia and India, was to defend German values.
(10) Carney said the statement on Monday from eurozone leaders was an attempt to facilitate such a recovery but that it “requires Herculean efforts from all sides, not just the Greeks in terms of structural reform”.
(11) To be sure, the task is Herculean, and high expectations will make it all the more politically perilous.
(12) 3.31am BST A witness to the herculean This is Pauline.
(13) So, when John Fowler and Benjamin Baker revealed the final design of their herculean railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the 1880s, it proved to be a celebration of the most daring structural engineering then possible.
(14) And no matter how hard they try – after Herculean efforts over six years – a force is bearing down on them which they cannot control,” said the former chief executive of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham council.
(15) Of course, given that Labour had moved to the right of Ted Heath's last government, being to the left of it didn't represent that Herculean an achievement, but still.
(16) This project required a Herculean effort on the part of many partners since its launch in December 2013, with 81 airplanes and 286 crew members flying roughly 463,000 kilometres to complete the survey,” said Vulcan wildlife conservation director James Deutsch.
(17) This was the first labour of QPR's Herculean 10-task run-in, with clashes against the top four among those looming after the duel with Kenny Dalglish's team.
(18) Balls’s total is achieved only through Herculean payments on super-expensive properties and is near impossible with cash-poor relief.
(19) This has been nothing short of a Herculean effort, undertaken with the sole objective of carrying out ODOC’s duty under Oklahoma law to conduct appellants’ executions,” Branham wrote in a brief to the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals filed Monday.
(20) The award is a testament to the rigorous process of reporting a story of such significance, as well as the herculean effort by the entire Guardian US team.
Powerful
Definition:
(a.) Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
(a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).