He told the jury it was not their task to decide the "rights and wrongs" of Mr Duggan's shooting, which will be examined at the inquest into his death, set to take place in September.

BBC: London

Its sole task was to decide if the appellate trial was properly conducted.

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Its thorny task is to decide what would be desirable, at what price, long before anyone knows what is feasible.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

This difficult task would be tantamount to trying to decide what cell phone to get when Option A costs a certain amount except for calls made between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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Governments will also decide how to stick to the task and timetable they set themselves to reach an effective, fair and ambitious universal climate agreement that is to be adopted in 2015 and to enter into force from 2020, and to raise the current inadequate global ambition to address climate change and its impacts before 2020.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

That is when California's voters will decide whether or not to turn the task over to an independent Citizen Redistricting Commission, laboriously constructed so as to be balanced and independent by a process of screening and random selection.

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But Shen said the ultimate goal was for Superbot to decide for itself the configuration best-suited to a particular task, describing them as "smart Transformers" after the shape-shifting cartoon toys.

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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.

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Enron was allowed to do this because a task force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) could not decide how energy contracts should be accounted for, explains Douglas Carmichael, the Wollman distinguished professor of accounting at Baruch College.

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