" Form, he believed, would come logically out of "the nature of the task with the means of our time.

WSJ: How Less Became More

Thanks to the architects, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who understood from the beginning the delicate nature of their task, the Barnes experience today is identical to what it was previously.

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"In particular, the task is to understand the nature of the new threat - more decentralised, more fragmented, taking advantage of the ungoverned spaces and security vacuum in parts of North Africa, " he said.

BBC: David Cameron

And, as is the nature of things against the World Champions, a team effort towards that apparently mundane task may be the decisive factor, before we can even factor in Ronaldo's potential for brilliance.

WSJ: Euro 2012 Preview: Spain vs. Portugal

Chess was never likely to be a good yardstick for measuring machine intelligence as its strictly formal nature, devoid of fuzziness and chance, is exactly the opposite of the kind of task where the human brain excels.

ECONOMIST: Stop the war

Now, however, the nature of the conflict in Darfur has mutated, making the violence more unpredictable and widespread and the task of getting a lasting peace deal that much harder.

ECONOMIST: Sudan