Research has suggested that it depends what task people are asked to do.
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They could not come together, however, on just what task they would send across the street for the lawmakers to perform.
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Biologists are racking their brains trying to think what useful task this apparently surplus DNA is doing.
"What the task force was trying to say is mammography is an imperfect screening tool and there are some harms associated with it, but there are also some benefits associated with it, " he said.
But what the task force that I put forward did I think was to examine all the arguments on every side, to do so in a fair way, unbiased way, not trying to put the thumb on the scale, and say that a well-structured plebiscite, a well-structured referendum in Puerto Rico could help determine this.
So what this task force will do is bring together experts from both countries on a regular basis, seek the use and involvement of charitable organizations and the private sector, and bring together, again, government officials who can on a regular basis share those best practices and help strengthen our efforts to support service members and their families.
Throw in the influence of Iran-a major regional player-and you will appreciate what a monumental task this is.
Putting on an Olympics is a massively complex task - what is known in the jargon as a "mega-project".
Pearce was one of several Washington policymakers that sought to take Bernanke to task for what they saw as ineffective monetary policy.
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In a separate report last month, the GAO took the Pentagon to task for what appears to be a wildly inefficient procurement process.
In particular, critics took Reddit to task for what they perceived as its overeager determination to help authorities identify suspects in the many images of the scene being shared online.
But, as he also points out, this is the second time this year that David Cameron has been publicly taken to task for what he has said about the budget.
While it would be great to hear from Senator Cruz why his perspective is so clearly different in 2013 than it was in 2008, he might wish to give some thought to his own shifting understanding of the 2nd Amendment before presuming to take Senator Feinstein, or anyone else, to task for what Cruz perceives as shortcomings in their own grasp of the law.
Having not particularly relished telling donors what they wanted to hear during the campaign, Romney has now taken his lumps in the thankless task of telling them what they want to hear afterward.
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Outrunning Amazon, Facebook and Google is not an easy task, so what position should they take?
Today's battles over abortion, abstinence and condoms are casting a pall over the field, and complicating what is already a formidable task.
Untangling the amount of government money involved at every level is a daunting task, but what we have here will suffice for our purposes.
The architects will not discuss what this self-imposed task cost them in additional time, noting only that the Memorial Foundation has been scrupulous in its contractual agreements.
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But only two weeks ago, students organized into 21 teams with the task of harnessing what they had learned to develop a core innovation that would positively impact a billion people in the next decade.
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Regardless of what occurred, Greg Malouf has a formidable task ahead to assure the existing client base that his sensibilities stretch to embrace their notion of what dishes should be served in such a unique environment.
Clearly, there are other pesticides at work, and finding what they are is the next task.
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It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began.
Dr Storey's first task was to see what hormonal trends occurred in men.
Its thorny task is to decide what would be desirable, at what price, long before anyone knows what is feasible.
Peter Osborne could be continuing what he admits is the thankless task of adjudicating marching disputes for some time to come.
For instance, he said, RoboEarth could help a robot understand what is meant when it is asked to set the table and what objects are required for that task to be completed.
Mr. President, Afghanistan is fully aware of the task ahead and of what Afghanistan needs to do to reach the objectives that we all have of a stable, peaceful and self-reliant Afghanistan.
Then, participants performed what is known as the Stroop task where they were asked to identify the color of various words flashed on a screen, which spell out the names of other colors.
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