• Task number one in the in-tray of the police commissioner is convincing people it is all worth it.

    BBC: Sheffield & South Yorkshire

  • And task number one is dealing with these deadlines that pose real challenges to our economy, as he talked about yesterday.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The new federal plan, developed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, calls for doubling the number of border security task force teams and moving a significant number of other federal agents, equipment and resources to the border.

    CNN: Obama to beef up Mexico border policy

  • But regulators already face an immense task tracking the huge number of websites touting for financial business.

    ECONOMIST: Finance on the Internet

  • Twenty years ago, Dr Ericsson tried to prove it by training some ordinary laboratory volunteers up to prodigy-level performance in a number-memory task.

    ECONOMIST: Who wants to be a genius?

  • Naturally, it's no easy task to sort through the wide number of options on the market today, and it's even more difficult to find the best of the best.

    ENGADGET

  • After browsing a site and making your selections, you click the eWallet icon in your Windows task bar, enter your PIN number, and drag your plastic of choice onto the site's order form.

    CNN: Don't forget your eWallet when you shop online

  • The professionalism of those that keep a watch over our country the President thinks is something we should continually log and he looks forward to visiting with, as he did NCTC, as well as he had a phone call with a number of the Joint Task Force folks in recent weeks.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • This is a Herculean task, not only because of the number of people involved, but because of the corrupted legal system.

    CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

  • The Fona Festival consists of a modified Tsou marriage, representing efforts to continue the tribe, a rather important task as the populations of many tribes number only a few thousand people.

    BBC: Tribal culture survives in Taiwan

  • Since the Metropolitan Police commissioner set up a Racial and Violent Crimes Task Force six months ago, the number of racial offences notified to the police has soared by 68%, the numbers charged by 98% and the number of incidents reported by more than 100%.

    ECONOMIST: A tragedy and a shame

  • Former world number one Hewitt faced a momentous task having never beaten Federer in their 15 previous matches.

    BBC: Roger Federer eases into Australian Open quarter-finals

  • Instead, it will work with a task force exploring ways of generating the same number of jobs a casino would have brought to east Manchester.

    BBC: No legal action after casino row

  • The regional secretary of the AEEU said the union would work "positively" with the task force while also seeking to minimise the number of redundancies.

    BBC: News Online

  • She also urged the government to establish a task and finish group to plan to increase the number of communities where Welsh is the main language.

    BBC: Debate on the Welsh language strategy 2012-17

  • "We have seen a number of successful efforts with existing MLB task forces, and I believe we have selected the right people to effectively address the many factors associated with diversity in baseball, " he said.

    WSJ: MLB forms diversity committee, black players focus

  • Leaving the Scottish boundary commissioners to decide the right number is a cop-out: their task is to draw lines on maps according to instructions given them by politicians, not to make highly charged political decisions.

    ECONOMIST: Launching devolution

  • Creating applications that can take advantage of these is a big task with hundreds of different devices running Android whereas the number of hardware devices operating Apple iOS is limited to three phones and three iPads, with similar components.

    FORBES: Apple and Google: Why Current Market Share Results Don't Matter Yet, Part 2

  • Because of the challenges in the analysis, we approach the task of estimating the impact of the Recovery Act from a number of different directions, and supplement our estimates with those of numerous outside analysts.

    WHITEHOUSE: Recovery Act Fourth Quarterly Report - Executive Summary

  • In such a sphere, you could be working on the same project and switch through any number of devices, before you switch to work on another task sphere.

    FORBES: Tackling The Multi-tasking Work Environment

  • By crowdsourcing the task of tagging the photos to micro-volunteers, the museum can catalog a greater number of photos without the expense of paying staff.

    FORBES: Connect

  • And their task dwarfs the genome project: with perhaps 1, 000 species under investigation, the number of bacterial genes could amount to 200, 000, compared with 20, 000 human ones.

    ECONOMIST: The microbiome

  • Also available is a Program Monitor widget for your homescreen that shows the number of active applications at any given time and links you into the same Task Manager menu.

    ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy S II review Hands-on

  • In a statement to FORBES, SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami argued that the task force was no longer needed because accounting expertise exists throughout the agency, and the number and severity of earnings restatements (a flag for possible accounting fraud) has declined dramatically since the mid-2000s.

    FORBES: Is The SEC's Ponzi Crusade Enabling Companies To Cook The Books, Enron-Style?

  • But, with a number of teams strengthening their squads for next season, Soliola is aware of the difficult task Saints face in again trying to finish 2010 at the head of the pack.

    BBC: Saints signing wants strong show

  • Room to Read measures every dollar against number of schools, libraries, books published and distributed and the time it takes to accomplish each task.

    FORBES: Social Entrepreneurship: A Fundamental Game Changer

  • The response of law enforcement at the time, Mr. Kennedy says, involved a number of strategies that, in the end, did not work very well: zero-tolerance task forces, gang sweeps, drug raids.

    WSJ: Book Review: Don't Shoot

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