He wants to take on that boxing champion.
Can the UN take on another onerous peacekeeping operation?
Why not join forces with Mr Van Rompuy to take on those EU leaders?
This unpredictability makes architecting social spaces the most challenging work a designer can take on.
In the 20th century, "dude" evolved to take on a more neutral meaning.
Yet the Americans were reluctant to take on Britain's hegemonic role in global finance.
On your first day of work, you're excited, impeccably dressed, friendly and eager to take on any challenge.
But should they be trusted to take on such tasks, and how can we be sure that they never take a decision that could cause unintended harm?
At these temperatures, matter is thought to take on an entirely different state; a state called a "quark-gluon plasma."
Some people branch out from their main job to take on consulting work or teach a course in their field.
In effect, the state will take on much of the debt that the private sector has decided to jettison.
Maybe the disregard option just is one that we can't actually take on as an intellectually acceptable alternative.
A protein made up of just 100 amino acids could take on an endless number (billions upon billions) of shapes.
You not only empower other people, you also encourage them to take on additional responsibilities and establish a bond of trust based on your vulnerability and their capability.
And if someone makes excuses for missing a deadline, consider saying, "you must have too much on your plate, " and look to others to take on additional assignments.
It is tradition at the Taobao division, which has an irreverent culture akin to that of Silicon Valley firms, to take on nicknames.
We were catching up at a Northwestern University alumni event; so naturally I suggested she take on a student as a summer intern.
Though Jackson's mother was able to gain the boys' release, she could only take one of them on horseback to their home for treatment.
Mr Spielberg became America’s best-known, and perhaps best, film director by fusing blockbuster spectacle with an unflinching take on family life.
And far from being ready to take on the globe, most emerging-market bankers are consumed by their colossal and growing businesses at home.
Our goal was to orchestrate an orderly downsizing of its store-based business and take on its customers as our own while we also focused on developing alternative movie-delivery methods.
As an example of a green-on-green row, take one in Maine, where environmentalists squabble over plans to expand a wind farm on the wilderness of Kibby Mountain.
If one DB2 subsystem goes down, or brought off-line for maintenance, other DB2 subsystems in the data sharing group take on the workload of the data sharing member that is now offline.
A simple formula might be: When fear recedes enough for investors to take on more risk, stocks all around the world move up — and stocks in emerging markets move up fastest.
And Wyndham's writing expounds an idea that is the template for many a modern film - the ordinary man, and ordinary woman, who have to take on a heroic mantle.
The singer wore a studded leather bra and a head scarf as she watched the San Diego Padres take on the New York Mets in New York last night.
I sympathised a while; but when the children fell ill of the measles, and I had to tend them, and take on me the CARES of a woman at once, I changed my idea.
Instead he proposes to act“ sequentially”, starting by securing the mixed Sunni-Shia neighbourhoods of Baghdad to show even-handedness, and then moving to the towns surrounding the capital before attempting to take on the most important Sunni and Shia strongholds.
You can either take one pill every morning as a preventative measure, or take one when you feel a headache looming.
I just wanted to take one of 'em down with me.
