Herculean task

Gosney said he had worked closely with Polizzi to try to bring the structure into compliance with city building codes, a process that he says has proved to be a Herculean task.

The dynamic duo's presence will lift the decibel level at Stade de France, and Wales face a Herculean task trying to silence it.

“This curfew order was enacted to protect public safety, prevent looting and burglaries, and enable our first responders to continue their herculean task of protecting our city and its residents,” Feldstein Soto said in a statement.

Every few years, Americans across the country are beleaguered with a Herculean task usually reserved for the sainted: They must think about Canada.

It is a Herculean task of the sort too often overlooked in film and television, where a mound of unpeeled potatoes has become shorthand for the welter of noncombatant duties war requires — duties that were in fact fraught and even dangerous at times.