As she discovered, serving the region from within was sometimes a thankless task.
This might end up being a thankless task, given the need to deflate egos not accustomed to having their laboratories turned upside-down by outsiders.
Of course, efficacy in changing society is a thankless criterion to apply to theatre because it is almost impossible to measure and document.
The thankless and probably fruitless effort to estimate the proportion of oats eaten by people and horses can be sidestepped by simply providing the limits of the argument.
While nationalists of every ideological hue celebrated this economic demarcation, the less emotive civil servants were left with the thankless task of pursuing this policy to its logical conclusions.
It is largely a thankless task; he grudges nothing.
But we must remember that it is a thankless task being chairman of such a corporation.
They undertake a thankless task, and they probably do it better than any other police force in the world.
