For our purposes, we decided to define a tool as a material device that provides an advantage in accomplishing a task.
The biggest reason for optimism, though, is success in registering Afghanistan's estimated 9.5m voters, a Herculean task in a war-ravaged land where no proper census has ever been attempted.
By the time the animals were eight to 10 weeks old, the physical disturbance had healed, but these animals displayed more depressed and anxious behaviors, such as giving up more quickly in a swimming task, than rats whose stomachs weren't irritated.
Clough, who also played for Liverpool and Manchester City before becoming player-boss at Burton in 1998, faces a tough task in following in his father's footsteps at Derby.
In UNESCO Islamabad, a small in house task force has been constituted which is actively involved in providing technical assistance for emergency response in different parts of Pakistan.
In Kibaale, a national task force has been mobilized in an effort to stem the outbreak.
Richey's parents Graham and Sherry Edwards were granted a similar court order but Ms Elias said it was a struggle as they had to convince a judge there was overwhelming evidence he would not be coming back - a difficult task in the absence of a body.
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American generals have been surprised and gratified by their allies' grit in a largely thankless task.
Staying overweighted in technology requires a task force of analysts and money managers to help sort out the news.
The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.
With 4G LTE speeds and a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, ELECTRIFY M lets you load web pages in a flash and multi-task like a pro.
The Center also released a new report on energy efficiency standards that takes agency benefit claims to task in a big way.
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The company makes this possible by creating a security-focused hypervisor that automatically, instantly and invisibly hardware-isolates each vulnerable Windows task in a micro-VM that cannot modify Windows or gain access to enterprise data or network infrastructure.
Our outreach in Alaska will culminate on Friday August 21st with the first in a series of Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meetings in Anchorage.
The negotiators meeting in The Hague face a near-impossible task in reconciling these different views.
Again, last night I think is a pretty good example both in a congressional race and in a Senate race in Delaware that makes winning those races for the Republicans a fundamentally harder task.
People with ADD are terrible at estimating in advance how long a task will take.
That said, managing assets in retirement is a daunting task for even the most financially savvy.
But the 50-year-old alliance now faces its hardest peacekeeping task in a landscape of mines, charred bodies and burned villages.
The researchers ran an experiment where a principal chooses one of two people to perform a task in exchange for compensation.
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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.
Tuning out ambient noise becomes a task in itself, creating fatigue.
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They must also be shrewd -- and that's no easy task in a crisis terrifying enough to cause almost anyone to lose his or her head.
Bush said the increase in troops is needed to help stop sectarian violence in the country, a task the Iraqi government is not yet ready to handle.
Having worked hard as a team, made new friends and completed a task in the open air, despite the cold, figured high on the list of positives.
Innovative companies view customer activity as the basis of competition and a task in the context of all the tasks that customer has to do before, during and afterwards.
Once the posture test was over the participants received their new statuses and the researchers measured their implicit sense of power by asking them to engage in a word-completion task.
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The subcommittee recommends an examination of how competition can be increased in a ratings business, a challenging task with the Big Three so firmly entrenched in the investment and regulatory community.
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That got business lobbies in revolt, so legislators are hustling to repeal the tax before it kicks in in December--a task made more difficult by their traditional two-week November break for deer hunting.
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