Many of the American officers involved in training Afghan soldiers had participated in the similarly ambitious task of training the Iraqi Army from 2004 to 2010.
In the best of circumstances, says Toby Dodge of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the task of training enough Iraqi troops to withstand the current insurgency would take at least five years, probably longer.
Another tricky task will be training computers to determine whether a holding in a case has been overruled or altered by a subsequent decision.
But there are only 46 Americans involved in the UN-mandated police force and, in any case, the task of policing and police-training (its real task) was scheduled to be handed over to the European Union in January.
The state has given a law enforcement commission the task of establishing a training programme for the sentinels.
They certainly needed training, and training was our task for the night.
Counting basketball passes is not a real-life task and the participants have no training in it.
This is no easy task for brains that have received lifelong training in right-answer finding, but it can be done.
The bill allows school districts to require "mental health first aid" training for school personnel and creates a task force to examine the state's mental health system.
He defended the decision to give trusts until next April to comply with the new rules, saying that training staff and installing containers was a big task.
The training of the Iraqi security forces is an enormous task, and it always hasn't gone smoothly.
The Task Force has helped women recover millions in lost wages, built collaborative training programs that educate employees about their rights and inform employers of their obligations, and facilitated an unprecedented level of inter-agency coordination to improve enforcement of equal pay laws.
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But the first task was to get to the inky depths - which despite untold hours of training, still surprised Mr Cameron.
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.
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