difficult task

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Though lawmakers are trying to find ways to ease the burden on taxpayers, Langley said removing assessment caps seems like a difficult task.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

Peter Supino of Wolfe Research said in his own report that Paramount Warner faces “the difficult task of growing share while simultaneously deleveraging, a balance that could come at the expense of content investment.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

He instead chose to find the thing that felt like the most difficult task and attack it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

It's a difficult task: Nigeria has lost 96 percent of its original forest cover, according to the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

This enormously difficult task required at least twenty divers per boulder.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler