a tall order

That's a tall order for a short bit of copy, but it's a skill anyone writing or editing for the Web should try to master.

That's a tall order for a tower, but the collection of non-profits that comprise the Center, along with a strong community, feel up to it.

That would be a tall order even for a freshly elected leader with a thumping majority and two terms in office.

It is a tall order to expect me to finish the job in two days. It will take a week at least.

Achieving all that would be a tall order for a much more robustly integrated organisation, so it probably won't happen.

I think your writers are pretty fantastic, but obviously reattaching someone's head is a bit of a tall order.

It was a tall order to ask him to be a partner in launching a new initiative of undefined duration when he was contemplating his own demise.

A bit of a tall order as it is late afternoon already, but I reckon we can make it.

All this sounds sensible. But establishing a new platform and ultimately becoming a firm that looks much like IBM is a tall order.

It may be a tall order for some women to accept. But shorter females earn less than their loftier colleagues, a study claims.

Given that this is a wretched literary genre in which almost every example is lamentable, to find the very worst is a tall order.

It's a tall order, and at the moment Vietnam is seen as a production base for lower value-added goods like textiles, furniture or footwear.

"I know it's a tall order, but I haven't heard a good explanation yet as to why that shouldn't happen, " he said.

It's a tall order for a brand that has resisted a decade's worth of attempts to turn it around.

A tall order when you throw dozens of members of Congress into a made-for-TV drama, at the historic Blair House.

All this is a tall order. Politicians have failed to control the costs of ageing populations for years.

Financing your education seems like a tall order for your parents, but there are still some other means available.

But getting people to spend more, especially in the face of an economic slowdown, may be a tall order.

Getting the crop harvested with so few hands to help was a tall order, but we did it.

But a bank will finance the project only if the developer manages to sell a high percentage of the units upfront, a tall order.

Given how ugly the housing market looked the past couple of months, this might seem like a tall order, but it stills possible.

It is a tall order, but the UN cannot stop the war unless it is also able to win the peace.

And that would mean European politicians admitting that both are needed to create a fair, just society: a tall order.

It is a tall order, but today's technology can crunch through the genetic code of a virus relatively quickly.

But going from stability to some sort of inflation surge is a tall order.

The truth is, even in Singapore which boasts a fairly efficient health-care system, this is still a tall order.

That's a tall order in technical terms - debt, product and a globally divided product lineup still stand in the way.

The manufacturers maintained that to expect them to double their output withing three months was a tall order.

This may seem like a tall order, and to some of you it may even seem impossible.

To get the spectrum allocated to commercial mobile services within six years may be a tall order.

That's a tall order, considering the almost unfathomable complexity of the human brain.

Expecting the Perimeter Institute to deliver insights on this scale is clearly a tall order.

That's a tall order that cannot be satisfied at the cellular level of consciousness.

Half the price of coal and no carbon: That's a tall order, which is why Gates is looking for a miracle.

Financing your studies may seem like a tall order, but there is plenty of help available.

Finding Easter eggs for a children's party in November is a tall order.

Persuading teachers without the usual inducement of higher pay will be a tall order.

This seems a tall order given that between 2003 and 2007 the government built less than half the 41, 000MW it had targeted.

Striking a balance between health and convenience can be a tall order to many nine-to- fivers .

This is a tall order, but it is important because oil prices will not forever guarantee that capital is in such generous supply.

These would somehow have to replace the natural, disease-bearing mosquitoes, which is a tall order.

That is a tall order and very few graduates will be able to meet all those expectations.

According to Saleem, the only option that could work is for Digg to come up with more ground rules, but even that is a tall order.

This looks like a tall order for carmakers.

Traceability, as the writers say, is indeed a tall order.

Surely, to expect Eriksson to trust in a youngster who has yet to play a first-team game is a tall order, however gifted he is.

It is a tall order, given their ancient antagonisms and personality clashes.

That is a tall order, at least initially.

He issued a tall order that no one could comply with.

That's a tall order, says Laurence Brahm, a political economist and resident of China for 25 years.

Changing the way American politics is funded is a tall order.

By no means. It's a tall order.

That is a tall order, and feasible thanks only to IBM's progress in other businesses, which has partly offset the difficulties in services.

That's a hell of a tall order.

It is a tall order to expect the DPJ to reinvent the machinery of government overnight , or even in the four years it says it needs.

It's a tall order for a boy of 15 to support a family.

That seems a tall order, to put it mildly.

Persuading wealthy Chinese consumers to buy luxury cars from Geely could prove a tall order.

But this is a tall order. Two adult zebras mete out powerful kicks with sharp hooves.

That is a tall order for most of us, but if you can relate your desire for the job to an experience or anecdote in your life, do it.

A tall order for us all, but one we must embrace.

Still, it is a tall order to double that again in just one year.

It is a tall order to finish the job in less than a (one) week.

That is a tall order for a handbag or a watch.

It's a tall order.

That's a tall order for the team that led the NBA in scoring (110. 4 ppg) and 3-point attempts (24. 7 per game) last season.

It is a tall order.

This is a tall order by any standard.

I know it sounds like a tall order, but remember; this is your quality of life we are talking about.

a tall order to fill.

I know, that's a tall order.

Is that a tall order?

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