The study of dead civilizations is difficult, frustrating, and, ultimately, a thankless job whose results are invariably heaped with criticism. |
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To Kevin falls the job of fair co-ordinator, a fairly onerous and often thankless task, but one that Kevin obviously enjoys. |
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People thank you for a thankless job that is at times very unpleasant, to say the least. |
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We are now in an era where refereeing is becoming a more difficult and thankless job. |
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Experience shows that the only thing rivaling the terror of actually getting a job is the thankless task of finding a job. |
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This is a messy and particularly thankless task that comes with the job, and challenges an editor's perception of the field and himself. |
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What could appeal more to anxious women voters than a political party that fights alongside them in the thankless task of preparation? |
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It is a thankless task, they do a good job and I hope they do not get too upset and see this as personal. |
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Fashioning a preventive detention policy is likely to be a thankless task here as well. |
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Nothing was ever too much trouble, day or night, no matter how unpleasant or thankless the tasks were. |
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Beware of a thankless and presumptuous person who expects too much from you without contributing himself in any way. |
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Being a helpdesk operator has to be one of the most thankless tasks on the face of the planet. |
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Beware of a presumptuous and thankless person who tends to take advantage of your good nature. |
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Repairing this damage, and returning to the centre ground, seem like an almost impossible, and thankless task, for whoever takes it on. |
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People who altruistically perform thankless tasks should be rewarded, but not by people who inspire little respect. |
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As a result, achieving any change in society is always an uphill and often thankless task. |
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Darren's dogged perseverance has finally, after years of thankless effort, begun to pay dividends. |
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Ten years of glitz and glamour, honoring the men and women who serve in what many here call a thankless profession. |
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The talented actress is stuck with the thankless, limited role of Joe's consternated girlfriend. |
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Robinson is deadly in a one-on-one situation and it will be a thankless task for anyone having to mark him in midfield. |
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Last night, this thankless task fell to Richard Wilson, who coped magnificently as one would expect. |
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Music copyists have the often thankless job of transcribing the composer's score and ongoing edits to new playable scores. |
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Regulating the appearance of a public burial ground is among the most difficult and thankless tasks in local government. |
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Being a diver is a lot of hard and sometimes thankless work, but times like this make it all worthwhile. |
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It's physically and mentally exhausting, it's thankless, it's long days and late hours and you really have to be on the brink of insanity to enjoy it. |
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He gave his Minister of Foreign Affairs the thankless task of not issuing a real apology to the leader of la Francophonie. |
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We wish to congratulate the federal boundaries commissions and Elections Canada on completing a difficult and often thankless task. |
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But those who stood up most for Europe, I think found it rather a thankless task and that is greatly to be regretted. |
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Its Members have the sometimes thankless task of guaranteeing a sustainable view of the future for the people they represent. |
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It is a major but yet rather thankless task, and the continuing support of our Member States in this exercise is essential. |
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Data collection is a thankless task, since data reporting is generally regarded as an unnecessary and pointless burden. |
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Translating the statutes was a thankless task, with the results coming under fire from all quarters and more often than not judged very harshly. |
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The Presidency has a thankless task in trying to reach an agreement in Council on the financial perspectives. |
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Prudential supervision is a complex and thankless task, no matter which institution is in charge. |
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The Vehicle Inspectorate does a difficult and thankless task extremely well and that is the reason that we drive some of the safest cars in the world. |
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In that thankless sister role, Bernier manages some winning moments. |
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I sat the thankless wretch down, and asked him what he wanted out of life. |
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It is a tough and, too often, thankless job and we owe those who do it a huge debt. |
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Corrections is a difficult and at times thankless business, yet it is a key element of the Canadian criminal justice system. |
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Raising teens and tweens can seem like an overwhelming, exasperating and thankless job at times. |
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He carried on this thankless war against determined and well-armed poachers with great success, often at some risk to his own life. |
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Brothers and Sisters, before I took this position, I always heard what a thankless job it is. |
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Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities. |
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Exhorting people to exercise more is a very thankless task that will be, at best, only weakly effective. |
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While Sherm dealt the frontside half-Cab flip and switch backside flip, Eric had the thankless task of working with the fakie ollie one-foot tail grab. |
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But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog. |
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Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us. |
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The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne. |
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The only thing approximating to a real dessert was baklava, a particularly mean and thankless example of its kind being dry, almost syrup and nut-free. |
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Running that gantlet is a thankless task for a centrist candidate in a time of rabid RINO hunting. |
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I'm sure that creating such a list is a difficult and thankless task, but including albums that had simply been recorded in Philly made the list a lot less meaningful to me. |
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You served valiantly in what seemed such a thankless cause! |
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While playing a key role in the protection of our communities and the defence of the Law, prosecutors all too often work in a thankless and sometimes dangerous environment. |
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Yet to enter politics, in particular, seems to be a thankless task. |
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Their task is thankless and their efforts in some cases to make incarceration more humane do not gain recognition, so that the bulk of attention centres on the aspect of their work which is concerned with preventing escape. |
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It can be a tough and sometimes thankless task chairing CEPS Committees and Kieran, José Ramón and Edwin's professionalism and dedication during their terms has been exemplary. |
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Instead, Matt is directionless, biding his time with a thankless job in a video store. |
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One is a marshal with the thankless task of finding distrainable objects in bankrupt households or serving eviction notices. |
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Our thanks and appreciation also go to all of the interpreters who, despite their very tricky and often thankless task, have once again risen to the challenge. |
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I say bravo to everyone in Quebec who is doing this essential work. Because they work in obscurity and obtain results that are sometimes disappointing in comparison to the effort expended, it is a thankless task. |
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Often badly welcomed, ill adapted, accepting the most thankless tasks for their survival, they sacrifice themselves to open the way to the following ones. |
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The present German government, as a party of the left committed to poor-man's policies all round, has been saddled with the thankless task of putting the thermostats in the big people-spoiler glass-house on a lower setting. |
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The department charged with defence, occupied in re-founding a national army and taking part in the final defeat of Germany, did not want to take on the thankless task, which seemed moreover bound to become drawn out. |
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Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task. |
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Such a thankless task is one that he is happy to leave to someone else. |
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Many of the best potential chief executives have recently made so much money from share options and the like that they no longer need the thankless task at the top. |
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It falls to you to undertake the extremely important task of establishing the agenda and launching the conference, sometimes, I suspect, a rather thankless and difficult task nonetheless. |
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In 2005, the Commission is facing the thankless task of keeping the referenda on the Constitution on the right track, but it has only itself to blame for having got itself into this predicament. |
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I know policing these days is a very difficult and often thankless job, and so I wanted to take this opportunity to pass on my sincere thanks to those officers concerned. |
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Mr. Robert Lanctôt: You have a thankless task. |
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Risk management can be a thankless profession. |
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He was always happy with the sometimes thankless positions he occupied. |
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Their performance on a thankless machine, the Link Trainer, will decide. |
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Ryan's job is thankless, although he is thanked a lot by others. |
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Our role, which is a necessary but sometimes thankless one, is and will continue to be to anticipate, to alert, to call for greater boldness in the common interest. |
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This is a thankless task from the outset, for the port authorities and shipping companies that are required to apply the new regulations will always experience these as a nuisance. |
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Running a political campaign is a thankless job. |
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We are so often reminded by sage, cauliflower-eared old snarlers that calling the intricacies of front-row play is a thankless task for those uninitiated in the art itself. |
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If Eniola Aluko was struggling in a rather thankless lone attacking role for England, at least Jill Scott was making her presence felt in central midfield. |
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