The mere classification of the evidence was a momentous and necessary task.

He needed to face the grim but necessary task, and complete it.

Local media arrived some time afterwards to discharge their necessary task.

Bracing himself for an unpleasant but necessary task, Geary called Vente.

Her eyes flinched from the necessary task of facing him down.

Then he and his two helpers carried out a painful but necessary task.

Without further delay he set about a disagreeable but necessary task.

Even proud Scottish lawyers should embrace the supreme court for performing this necessary task.

Proving the obvious is not an amusing task, but it is sometimes a necessary task.

There was one ugly and very necessary task.

War was looked upon as an unpleasant but necessary task that at times must be performed.

This necessary task on which Bobby had stumbled had made the thicket less congenial than the house.

He knew that Silent Tom was happy, happy because he had prepared for and was achieving a necessary task.

The civilian population of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (and not by their choice), was left an enormous but necessary task.

For the moment, they were more like machines set in motion, programmed to carry out a distasteful but necessary task.

The only thing he feared was the publicity and opposition which might prevent him from carrying through his necessary task.