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But what person a man undertakes to act, he doth ever therewithal!
The road to the place is full of dangers, but Gilgamesh, undaunted, undertakes the journey.
Upon receiving a favorable omen from the sun-god, Agum undertakes the task of bringing Marduk and Sarpanitum back to their seats.
The Holy Spirit undertakes all that responsibility for us.
But it is seemingly a more impossible task that the Holy Spirit undertakesto do for us, to fill us “unto all the fullness” of the infinite God, to fill us until all the intellectual and moral fullness that there is in God is in us.
The Post-Office further undertakes the conveyance of books and book-packets, and the remittance of small sums of money.
Mr. Burns undertakes to perform this service in all weathers, free of expense, and to pay an annual sum of 100l.
And this absurdity must be eluded by him who undertakes to show that a rise in the wages of labor can be transferred to the value of its product.
In column five Mr. Malthus undertakes to assign the quantity of labor necessary (under the conditions of the particular case) to produce the wages expressed in column three, which in this case Alpha are one hundred and twenty quarters.
Some while after, Good Counsel finds him in the lowest state of debauchery, and reclaims him; and God's Merciful Promises undertakes to procure his pardon.
In painting, for instance, the portrait of an actual person, if the artist undertakes to represent him merely as he is at a given instant of time, he will of course be sure to misrepresent him.
Ribâta, son of Kasmani, undertakes all responsibility for the money.
He undertakes accordingly not to “sell” it, not to give it to another, not to pawn it or alienate a portion of it.
Germany undertakes to devote her economic resources directly to the physical restoration of the invaded areas.
She undertakesnot to intervene in any negotiations about Egypt between Great Britain and other Powers.
The French rights will be governed by German law in force at the armistice excepting war legislation, France replacing the present owners, whom Germany undertakes to indemnify.
Sylla are in the city, and the consul himself undertakes to disarm the Romans.
Lord Bruncker undertakes the despatch of the fire-ships, when he is no more fit for it than a porter; and all the while Sir W.
In pretending to adjust the balance of commerce by the game of tariffs, it undertakes to make commerce prosper; and if, so far from prospering, it is destroyed, whose fault is it?
It is charged {48} with everything, it undertakes everything, it does everything; therefore it has to answer for everything.
However strange, however grotesque, may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it.
Naturally enough, the plain people suppose that when the State undertakes to regulate the business, it will do the work which it undertakes well and honestly.
Heron says he won't have anything to do with St. Paul, and Lucy undertakes to say for him that he won't be patronized by Lady Limpenny.
Familiar companion of the heavenly Powers," said he, "whoso undertakes to pierce thy high celestial meaning, undertakes to soar after the eagle when he hides himself in the clouds.
Assumed to be in force before its adoption, in disregard of the law of Congress, the constitution undertakes to impose upon the elector other and further conditions.
The bill places all the people of the ten States therein named under the absolute domination of military rulers; and the preamble undertakes to give the reason upon which the measure is based and the ground upon which it is justified.
It is also to be economically considered by reason of the loss of time involved in an illness of nearly two months and the loss of money implied in the nursing, doctors, and medicine.
As the country becomes more settled, ponds are more and more likely to become contaminated and hence unfit for a water-supply, and this possibility must be taken into account in planning for a water-supply.
Unfortunately, much uncertainty exists in the matter of the yield of driven wells, and an individual undertakes a deep well usually with great reluctance on account of the expense involved and the uncertainty of successful results.
But the malediction of the Psalmist in his haste is gravely adopted in this proscription, whichundertakes to blast “all men” of a specified description as “liars.
The Senator from Massachusetts … undertakes to present this and other conterminous things as a policy, so as to wipe out the lines of the States and make one grand empire.
It is vain to say that this measure is temporary; for, in plain terms, it undertakes to amend the charter of Washington.
The proposition before the Senate simply undertakes to prohibit the coastwise slave-trade.
This is not difficult unless made so, and often rendered dangerous by the intemperance of the party who undertakes to accomplish it.
That communion undertakes to settle infallibly all questions of theology, and to leave nothing in doubt; and with what result?
They have made a solitude, and that they call peace, and the pretence alone of an authority which undertakesto release man from doubt and the need of investigation has paralysed theological inquiry among Roman Catholics.
The whole body of the State undertakes in them responsibilities and duties which God intended individuals to discharge, but which individuals persistently neglect, to the injury of their innocent offspring, and of society at large.
In the second place, the city undertakes to perform numerous services which are of interest to the people of the locality alone and which do not concern the people of the state as a whole.
Sometimes, instead of relying upon private corporations to supply the people with water, gas, and electric light, the city itself undertakes to do this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undertakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
