Undertook Quotes

We undertook very rigorous background checks before the job offer, as much with the Privy Council as with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP. - Melanie Gruer

We undertook a project that had never been done before. - Rick Rule

We hope to see a dialog begin that puts educated and aware consumers into energy policy decisions. We undertook this research to see if perceptions (about energy efficiency) were true in the real world. - Art Spinella

We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board. - Donald Kennedy

The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do. - David Trimble

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). - Jonathan Kellerman

The Justice Department undertook this action on its own, which is the way it should be. - Trent Duffy

The government undertook the quarantine policy as a symbolic gesture. They were under pressure from the business community to demonstrate to their trading partners and political partners that they could contain the disease. - John Tayman

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. - Asa Gray

The American economic system rewards those who take great risks with commensurate benefits. The compensation Mr. Brooks received is directly attributable to the risk he undertook in aiding the capitalization of DHB and achieving extraordinary results for the company. - Bruce Rubin