Frances Beinecke

When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

American Activist

Jessye Norman

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

American Musician

John Desmond Bernal

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

Irish Scientist

June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

American Writer

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Italian General

Gisele Bundchen

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Brazilian Model

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

German Scientist

Edwin Land

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

American Inventor

Francois Rabelais

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

French Clergyman

Henry R. Luce

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

American Editor

Using 'undertake' often suggests a serious, formal commitment.

Serious Promise

'Undertake' implies a commitment that usually extends over time.

Long-term Responsibility

'Undertake' suggests a proactive approach toward starting something new.

Initiative Required

Tasks you 'undertake' often require significant effort or resources.

Substantial Effort

'Undertake' can denote an effort to do something challenging or difficult.

Challenging Endeavor

'Undertake' suggests a personal decision rather than being assigned a task.

Personal Initiative

In legal use, 'undertake' is more binding than a casual promise.

Stronger than Promise

'Undertake' here means the speaker is confident about delivering a result.

Confidence in Outcome

 other worlds inhabited by known human beings, but these are more like mythical realms or parallel universes than other planets existing in the same physical world. It is only within the last century that scientists have been able to seriously undertake the search for extraterrestrial life. We know that at the most basic level

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 This will be an enormous undertaking. You could describe it as a cathedral project. Those involved at the outset may draft the plans and dig the foundations, but they will not raise the spire to its full height. That task, that privilege, belongs to our descendants.

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 Now while relearning every action that one has ever cultivated might seem like a significant undertaking -- and believe me, it very much was, in the short term -- it was nonetheless having a positive effect

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 next unesco world heritage site but why why do we risk our lives every year to cross this remote wilderness were there two reasons first to undertake and completes the most comprehensive

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 So we have to have a change in consciousness. A change in commitment. A new sense of urgency. A new appreciation for the privilege that we have of undertaking this challenge.

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 is legally binding. And here's the more important What did we have before? A very small handful of countries who had undertaken very reduced,

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