Undertaken

After Cæsar had undertaken the business (_Cæsar, the business having been undertaken_), he was unwilling to delay longer. [ ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

The power grab this administration has undertaken is against everything a true American believes. bts ❋ Unknown (2010)

How it might actually be undertaken is of course an entirely different matter, but the notion itself is by no means misplaced as a topic of discussion if nothing else. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Important emails/phone calls undertaken; quick jaunt to grocery store for milk and butter; convinced cat that the maintenance man was not going to roast her on a spit; finished sorting tax documentation/paperwork that was begun yesterday, before husband came home and announced the need for immediate hurry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also, the mewing episodes are much shorter, and are undertaken from a greater distance. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They were also among the first to test the improvised but increasingly systematic world order, in which rescue operations are undertaken from the developed world, assisted by a nexus of nongovernmental organizations, and then mutate into semi-permanent administrations. ❋ Unknown (2003)

An investigation undertaken from the viewpoint of the effect of its activity has yielded the finding that this is the case to a considerable extent. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The Asibi virus with which all these culture experiments were undertaken is highly pathogenic, not only for monkeys by parenteral inoculation but also for mice by intracerebral inoculation; that is, its viscerotropic as well as its neurotropic affinities are highly developed. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Among other things undertaken from the air in Canada might be mentioned-forestry surveys, fire protection, transportation in undeveloped regions; fishery patrols; wheat rust disease; the mapping out of forest and mining areas; photographic surveys; investigation of ice conditions in Hudson Bay and Straits. ❋ Unknown (1927)

The percentage of profitable ventures to the total number undertaken is small, so that they must have large returns, because the producing companies must carry the whole burden. ❋ Unknown (1926)

Three years, three months, and three days of it, the very term undertaken by the Dalai Lamas themselves in their quest for enlightenment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The truth is that these things are a matter of personal choice, and they can actually be deeply meaningful forms of self-expression undertaken only after long and meaningful periods of reflection and introspection. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

He spoke for an hour yesterday, fascinating interview as well and talking about this sort of unprecedented approach to living life that Americans have undertaken, that is not just pulling back on the spending but many people not spending anything over and above what they absolutely have to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ASHCROFT: Well, a very important item, we discovered this a year ago, and a year ago this July, I asked that this report be undertaken, that is a strict accounting to find out just how serious the problem was, that the inspector general of the department, Glenn Fine, has undertaken with his staff, a very thorough effort. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It is this: despite the redistribution measures governments have undertaken, that is despite the increases in social security payments and despite the progressivity of the income tax, income distribution in Canada has changed very little in the past twenty years. ❋ Unknown (1974)