| It seems like an excessively tall order now to try to counter that with a speech. |
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| Keeping on top of the washing-up without a dishwasher is a tall order, says manager Sue Hargreaves. |
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| It's a tall order but Jansen believes his team-mates can achieve their goal if they put their minds to it. |
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| It's a tall order, but one of the most straightforward and effective ways to achieve that goal is through education. |
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| The title sounds like a tall order, particularly coming from someone who has never made a country album. |
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| That's a tall order, especially without the kind of patronage the possibility of power provides. |
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| It's hard enough to make one good album, so to get two out of essentially the same material is a tall order. |
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| The mediators had a tall order bringing together parties with fixed and opposing goals. |
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| While you may be able to manage for three to six months without a specific employee, one or two years is invariably a tall order. |
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| Making the step-up to inter-county football after an absence of two years is a tall order. |
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| Flowing football was always going to be a tall order on a heavy Home Park pitch that was still being sanded right up to kick-off. |
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| It was a tall order for Irish business to call a halt at such short notice and some annoyance was understandable. |
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| The man behind all this is short in height but it is no tall order for him to send people into peals of laughter. |
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| But turning labour into a political force to be reckoned with in Alberta is a tall order, which McGowan clearly outlined in his paper. |
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| Always amiable and frequently hilarious, future triumphs on the comedy circuit might not be that much of a tall order. |
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| This is a tall order, and the mild white flesh of the turkey, even at its best, simply isn't up to the job. |
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| It's a bit of a tall order to offer a fully formed alternative view of the world, but we can at least throw up some positive ideas for discussion. |
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| If the task of embracing the dentist's chair seems a tall order, fear not, you're in good company. |
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| This is a tall order, but I believe that we have to do it, and we will, God willing. |
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| But if butting heads with the Western titans is a tall order, Kitayama thinks he has a better idea. |
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| At the same time, the successful pursuit of these initiatives is a tall order for a public service that is under severe stress. |
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| No doubt that is a tall order, but that is what it takes and that is the challenge that we all have to confront. |
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| Helping kids stay lean and fit is a tall order considering twice as many children are overweight or obese compared with 30 years ago. |
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| A tall order indeed, since Douthwaite has been working at it for a year already, in addition to his daily job. |
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| Providing information and communication technology to all the schools and higher education institutions was a tall order for the private sector. |
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| Granted, this may be a tall order, but one in which the marketing and sales departments can help production staff a lot. |
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| Maintaining the same level of service and efficiencies without disruption to customers in such an undertaking is obviously a tall order. |
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| Quite apart from the Gallic bias of its content, this timetable started out as a tall order in linguistic terms. |
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| However, this is a tall order for organizations because they must be committed to the environment and technology. |
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| Ladies, It seems a very tall order to tackle all the topics for discussion within only a few minutes. |
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| That may sound like a tall order, but it came closer to reality last summer. |
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| Making broad scope, comprehensive documentaries about an event the magnitude of World War II is a tall order, often with less than satisfactory results. |
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| It was going to be an extremely tall order for any side to overhaul us. |
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| It's a tall order, but no one could accuse Williams of not trying. |
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| Other jurisdictions have pursued similar objectives, and their experience with a myriad of reforms to the law of custody and access suggests that realizing such profound change is a tall order. |
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| It is still a tall order to reach that point, but we have no other option. |
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| It's a tall order for a five-year study, but it becomes doable by moving forward in phases: baseline development, knowledge exchange, and comparative analysis. |
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| Replacing a man like John Williams will be a tall order, but as one of the tallest members of the House, I hope that with some indulgence members will come to embrace me as they did him. |
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| A tall order, but not one that has been thrust upon us by chance. |
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| Fundamental transformation is a tall order and can take years to achieve. |
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| That is a tall order, one the Conservative government is not up. |
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| This is a tall order, and yet we expect even more from our schools. |
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| It is a tall order, but I am confident that we are on the right track. |
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| The BRICS have proved challenging: Mr Tavares aims to break even in Russia and Latin America in 2017 but it is a tall order. The fourth target is the whopper: improving competitiveness. |
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| It was the admiring comments from visitors that prompted The National Trust to give the tall order to specialist arboriculturists to measure the tree. |
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