• On Sept. 21, a financial task force - set up by the Sultan in June and headed by Mohamed's ally, Education Minister Aziz Umar - indicated that Jefri's companies appeared to have misappropriated and misused a massive amount of government funds.

    CNN: TROUBLED KINGDOM

  • At the Harare meeting, a regional task-force was set up to meet every few weeks to monitor events in Zimbabwe.

    ECONOMIST: But Robert Mugabe, unyielding, goes his own way

  • To bridge the gap, Mr Kim has set up a task-force to prepare for a smooth transition of the presidency.

    ECONOMIST: Korean glums

  • In a polite country where queues are respected, this announcement was seen as jumping ahead of the financial-services task-force, which had been set up in December 1996 and was scheduled to report this autumn.

    ECONOMIST: Bank mergers in Canada

  • It has set up an immigration task-force and on March 2nd announced a census to work out how many children might arrive.

    ECONOMIST: Hong Kong

  • Laurent Kabila's ill-disciplined army was set the task of rooting them out.

    ECONOMIST: Dusty and doomed in Kabila��s capital

  • This time they self- financed and set out the simpler task of refining and packaging the model for sale as software.

    FORBES: Default-risk bookies

  • Somerset were in no obvious hurry at the start of play after resuming on 163-3 as McKenzie set about the task of extending the lead and boosting his own chances of being offered a return contract for next summer.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Counties | Somerset victory seals promotion

  • Mr Osborne said the task force should be set up from April when Conservative-run Medway Council's health and wellbeing board takes responsibility for public health.

    BBC: Fat man in Medway

  • The Pentagon set up a 120-person Information Review Task Force originally to look at Afghanistan war documents released by WikiLeaks, and to identify people who were named in the intelligence reports.

    WSJ: Pentagon Vets Iraq Documents WikiLeaks May Post

  • The Moray Task Force has been set up to fight the loss of defence-related jobs in the local area.

    BBC: RAF Lossiemouth petition lands at 10 Downing Street

  • The federal Preventive Services Task Force, for one, embodies a minimalist, doubter mind-set.

    WSJ: Hartzband and Groopman on the Rise of the Medical Expertocracy

  • Mr Ban has also extended the work of the Procurement Task Force, likewise set up in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal, to investigate allegations of fraud in procurement deals.

    ECONOMIST: The United Nations

  • In recent months, US forces in Afghanistan have pledged to increase their oversight of security contractors and set up task forces to track the money spent among sub-contractors.

    BBC: Afghan security contractors 'fund Taliban'

  • The researchers twigged that this phenomenon could be used to measure density and, as they report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they set about this task by erecting a stack of two off-the-shelf neodymium magnets separated by a vertical vial of paramagnetic fluid.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • But most nations set aside political one-upmanship to get on with the grim task of pulling people out of the rubble.

    CNN: Shocks and Aftershocks

  • The challenge of the Anthropocene is to use human ingenuity to set things up so that the planet can accomplish its 21st-century task.

    ECONOMIST: The geology of the planet

  • Brazil has taken the Colombian threat seriously enough to set up a military task force as part of "Operation CoBra" - the title devised by using the beginning of each country's name - a dedicated army group with helicopter support.

    BBC: Venezuela

  • The second stage will, as the special committee gets set up and begins to take on the task of putting forward a proposal -- we obviously believe that -- and I think most people believe that the issues that remain to be addressed here are entitlement reform and tax reform.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It has set up a regional Caribbean task force and is supporting the creation of an Asia-Pacific anti-laundering group.

    ECONOMIST: That infernal washing machine

  • Officials said up to 10 tigers had been poached from Sariska in the past two years - the news greatly alarmed conservationists and the Indian government which has since set up a task force to protect the tiger.

    BBC: NEWS | South Asia | India to probe wildlife poacher

  • As the debacle unfolded, a financial task force was set up under Mohamed's colleague and the new BIA chief, Education Minister Aziz Umar - Jefri's nemesis.

    CNN: 'Everyone Was Shocked'

  • But few dispute that Wallenberg set about his task with such vigour and courage that his place in history would have been assured - with or without his own death.

    BBC: Profile: Sweden's Holocaust hero

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