I think they have a most thankless task.
Certainly, it can only have been a thankless task.
I think we should pay tribute to the people in the industry, at all levels, in what is only too often a thankless task.
The work of a hospital like this sometimes appears to the staff to be thankless.
One pilot said that he was pursuing a thankless task.
We have discharged a thankless, painful, costly, laborious, inconvenient task for more than a quarter of a century with a very great measure of success.
The task of the peacemaker is often a thankless one, and it is so in this case.
They undertake a thankless task, and they probably do it better than any other police force in the world.
