• He's referring to the fact that the huge post-privatisation task of improving the region's sewerage systems is basically complete and on the supply side, we are blessed with good reservoirs that are fortunately full.

    BBC: South West Water customers asked how cash should be spent

  • The use of these sophisticated weapons, precisely targeted by global positioning satellites, is designed to maximise their effects while limiting collateral damage, which would make the task of post-war reconstruction more difficult.

    BBC: Analysis: US 'shock and awe' tactic

  • Put that key weekly task on a Post It note next to your computer so that you see it all day.

    FORBES: Getting Ultra Focused.

  • We are a poor nation getting poorer and the main task of a post referendum Wales is to focus determination, policy and resources on reversing that trend, decisively.

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  • Not at all. (Readers, you took me to task for that previous post.) But will people get the message?

    FORBES: Stewart's Speech

  • Shirley Phillips, the recent president of the Travel Federation of Iowa, which lobbies on behalf of tourism firms and sits on the task force, said a post-Labor Day start helps firms, such as campgrounds and aquatic centers, that thrive in summer.

    WSJ: School in August Gets Low Grades

  • The Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance has only just begun the task of estimating the cost of post-war humanitarian assistance.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-War Planning

  • And scientists disagree about the long-term damage, thanks partly to the post-Soviet shortage of funding for the huge task of monitoring the lake.

    ECONOMIST: Russia's natural jewel is at the mercy of oil money

  • The co-chairs of the Task Force advocated for it in a Washington Post editorial yesterday.

    FORBES: Discriminatory Sin Tax As Budget-Balancing Device?

  • The deserved breakthrough came, however, when Boruc failed to collect Brunt's high cross to the back-post and Damien Johnston headed back to give Feeney the simple task of tapping in from four yards.

    BBC: Northern Ireland 3-2 Poland

  • In the wake of Kobe one of the doyens of Japanese seismology, Kiyoo Mogi, noisily quit his post as the government's top earthquake adviser because of the futility of the task.

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  • The task of re-reading Muslim history, specially the earliest years of the post-Prophetic period, is not one of retrospectively reading our standards into what was narrated in the formative period, but finding clues in that narrative to explain the subsequent development of Muslim politics into our time.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Muslim-on-Muslim Violence

  • "After the same characters emerge playing the same roles in several different cases, an investigator has to determine whether there is a common theme, and the task force now knows enough to do that, " an official told The Washington Post.

    CNN: Top Justice Aide To Make Final Report On DNC Fund-Raising Abuses

  • Winger Aaron Lennon made way for goalkeeper David James, whose first task was to face Shevchenko's penalty but the former Chelsea striker could only hit the post and the ball bounced to safety.

    CNN: Ukraine beat 10-man England to boost 2010 hopes

  • In the last week, we have shifted control of skimming assets to the commander and the Incident Command Post in Alabama, who is responsible for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- and actually have detached a task force to work for him to push out 50 miles offshore and find these smaller patches and try and deal with them before they get to shore.

    WHITEHOUSE: Daily Press Briefing

  • Finally, in a recent post on his blog, Sam Liles, an associate professor at the National Defense University, takes cyber strategists to task for focusing too much on the technological infrastructure of cyberspace and not enough on the social and cognitive aspects.

    FORBES: DOD Cyberspace Strategy is Too Narrow, Too Negative

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