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Eric is a very bright young man who is likely to succeed in life. He is intelligent enough to achieve lofty goals as long as he stays on task and remains motivated.

FBI joint task forces - Violent Crime Safe Streets, Violent Gang Safe Streets, and Safe Trails Task Forces - focus on identifying and targeting major groups operating as criminal enterprises. Much of the Bureau's criminal intelligence is derived from our state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, who know their communities inside and out.

Everything we do in life requires a process, but if you don't make the first step, you will never complete the task at hand.

The toughest task now is, 'How are you going to top this?' Because we're going to win another one.

The transfer of Slobodan Milosevic will now lend renewed energy to the task of arresting those fugitives who are still at liberty.

The transaction will raise much-needed cash as GM attempts the Herculean task of turning around its core auto business.

ISPs have gotten better at blocking spam, they've gotten together to form anti-spam associations and task forces, and they've done a better job of educating their users about spam,

I stand ready, personally, to help him in any way that he sees fit, to carry out what I believe is an important public task of healing New Jersey, bringing New Jersey together, of giving New Jersey that brighter future we spoke of in this campaign.

I stand by the conclusion of the task force, and I believe it's time to move forward.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

I set one task for the new team -- to work in a united team. I do not want any more the intrigues between two or three people that were determining the state policy.

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

It would not give them the information they want. This dog will have been trained long for the task and subjected to similar simulated conditions, and this flight is just another experience of the same sort.

The rift, if not civil war, within the Liberal party also presents an almost Herculean task for any new leader.

The search for Rita was complicated by the task of determining the letters she embroidered in her last name. We had lots of possibilities.

These agreements are the result of a collaborative effort between our member Spine Task Force and Surgical Services and Strategic Advisory Committees who have worked hard to provide the most cost-effective, innovative, and quality-driven spine surgery service line solutions in this complex physician preference area.

The school is letting us leave very early for the game, and that will give us plenty of time to stop and eat, stretch and try to keep the blood flowing and the muscles loose throughout the day. We plan to get there about an hour and a half before the game starts so we can get ready and focused for the task at hand.

The series is going to be very tough, especially the Australian leg of the tour. It's a big task for us to regroup and get back to winning ways.

The share reform is the primary task for the capital market reform and development in 2006.

These new facilities have been years in the making and represent the collective thought of doctors, nurses, patients and their parents, architects and many, many others who have brought their unique perspective to the task -- to design facilities that will support the most advanced medical and surgical practice available, anywhere. When we complete the construction, these facilities will enable us to meet our patient care responsibilities well into the future.

The selection panel had a daunting task to choose 20 players for the game, but we do fell that this group of young, talented players will put on an excellent display of basketball skill and good sportsmanship.

The stakes are very high, ... We're telling our American friends: 'We can do it together. We can do Baghdad together. We can do Iraq together. We, the Iraqi people together with the American liberators and the British liberators, we can achieve the task of getting rid of Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies.'

The task of the state and the Louisiana Recovery Authority is to really gather everything together and try to help rebuild the state.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise location, indeed to give a wrong location,

The task of growing is finding these people. A lot of companies are (turning away) from the notion that basic research can be a good investment. Some of the best and brightest are being turned out by their companies,

The task of establishing causality is much more difficult than reaffirming the reality of the warming.

The task of assisting with family restoration is a monumental one and will require the combined knowledge of and reach of this special group of leaders who have proven knowledge of Louisiana and a history of community service,

The task now is for arrangements to be made which will ensure stable government in New Zealand for the next three years.

The task is to keep at it until Americans can go through their lives without fear, ... It is a marathon, not a sprint. It will be years, not weeks or months.

The task force will open up a whole array of choices to save and conserve. We want to reach our goal of 20 percent by 2010.

The task force will look at these technologies and make a recommendation to the attorney general, who is authorized to approve a list of less-lethal ammunition for law enforcement in New Jersey.

The task force will function like an ad hoc, ex officio board committee. There's a fine line between managing the business of Ko-Thi and being advisory. At the end of the day, the committee will be managed by Ko-Thi and report to Ko-Thi, not to UPAF.

The task force report, which we will carefully study, has done a good job reporting the pension situation in New Jersey. During the transition period, the governor-elect and an advisory group, which will be announced shortly, will be reviewing the pension issue.

The task force is closely monitoring the situation as we head into the planting season. While March has provided us with a good amount of rain, conditions are still at a critical stage. The message has to go out to western, northern and central Illinois that we're not out of the woods yet. We could get a month or two of recovery, then be back at it.

The task force is bringing this in for a landing. Opinions about it vary greatly.

The task force has standing instructions that if it finds any information that would lead it to believe that there should be an independent counsel they're to bring this to our attention immediately and that has not occurred in this case.

The task force feels this is the most important point.

The task consumers face will be quite challenging. Because nearly every plan has a unique plan design, even researchers like myself find it challenging to sort out the choices.

The task before us is considerable. The American people want the facts, ... It's about getting the facts, not getting even.

The task at hand is what's on the players' minds right now. Everyone's starting to really think about the playoffs and that's what comes first for us. We've got to play well so we can make it far this year. If we make it far, then guys are going to be back next year.

The thing that's really special about it is that everybody in this locker room is really grounded about the task that we have ahead of us in playing the Steelers. It's not hard to be engaged and be focused on what we've got to get done.

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

Safety education on the farm, especially for children, is a crucial initiative for the rural communities. ADM is proud to support FS4JK as they undertake the important task of educating farmers and their families about how to keep children safe on and around the farm.

PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

SAP is going to retain a lot of its proprietary ABAP code in developing its next generation SOA applications whereas Oracle's approach is to try to get away from legacy and proprietary code and move to a pure Java J2EE environment. Even though the task Oracle has is more complicated in that they have to integrate applications from multiple acquisitions, they will achieve a more open kind of environment.

Products which allow companies to replace the time-consuming and inefficient task of manually compiling and maintaining asset inventories, thereby allowing companies to actually know what they have, are key for companies that need to compete successfully in the knowledge economy.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

Our aim was to show concern and determination, and boost the crucial task of restoring confidence in the region, ... The message was also intended to show how painful changes can increase strength and stability in the longer term.

People say 'no child left behind,' but I say 'no child without a shirt with a collar,' ... a straight line communicates stability, sturdiness and uprightness, and an angular collar communicates that this individual is capable and will follow through with whatever the task is. That's for women and men.

People came and there was a lot of shouting, anger and frustration. Based on the input that came out of the town hall meeting, we created a task force and totally transformed the (singles) program. It's now called the Young Professional Initiative.

The mourning process is not over. That will go on for a long period of time. I think he felt there were things he had to accomplish still this year, and he had to get back to the task of doing it.

The motherland and people are proud of you. I hope you will successfully complete your task by carrying out the mission calmly and carefully and have a triumphant return,

Adept continues to provide us with solutions that offer more precision, flexibility, and control. The new AdeptWindows(TM)-based systems have made an extremely difficult and time-consuming task simple enough for our non-technical staff to implement, saving time and money and providing us with far more options to meet our business goals.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

After 30 days, it becomes a much more difficult task for them.

The most urgent task is to check water pollution to ensure the safety of drinking water, and we must win that battle.

The most important task is to work out robust research-based plans to meet the specific demands of each element of the desert control battle.

Some stand and serve You; without the Name, nothing else pleases them. Any other task would be worthless to them - You have enjoined them to Your True Service.

So we appreciate when the president used the word 'negotiate' that that might mislead people, so to clarify people it's to task our people to work up options, and that's all that's happening.

Southwest has a great defense. We have a big task ahead of us.

One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all

Once the justices depart, as most of them have, from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, they lack any guidance other than their own attempts at moral philosophy, a task for which they have not even minimal skills. Yet when it rules in the name of the Constitution, whether it rules truly or not, the Court is the most powerful branch of government in domestic policy. The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.

Coming out of Greenspan's shadow is a difficult enough task for anyone. The burden of that task is complicated by the immediate economic situation.

Coming into this building is never an easy task and given the fact that L.A. last week didn't come away with points we knew we had to be ready to play against a team that might show some urgency. They get the goal off a restart but our guys didn't drop their heads. They came back and we equalized. I think it was fair that we got a point off of this game.

Any coach that plays (PHU) will tell you that stopping them starts up front. Our defense has a task ahead of them.

A prime task of the WHO experts and their Chinese counterparts will be to conclusively decide if the laboratory was indeed the source of these people's infections.

Anytime an inmate escapes, it's certainly a serious situation, ... There are numerous problems that challenge Alabama's correction system, and these problems have built up over several decades. That's why Gov. Riley created a task force to review our state's corrections system and policies.

Any improvement over what we have now is the right thing for the kids. We have a site and now we can address planning and funding, which will be an enormous task for the board.

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

As a result of these kinds of cases, the joint task force is working effectively towards preventing these kinds of crime from occurring in the future and intercepting the money before it goes to its intended recipient.

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

The big task was getting everybody back. Did you win that battle? You try to make sure everybody is back and ready to play.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

Attracting sufficient equity capital to fund critical research is often a challenging task for the industry. This problem is exacerbated by an outdated tax regime that was largely set in place well before the advent of the modern biotechnology industry. The federal government should lead the effort in providing favorable tax and regulatory environments that will create incentives for economic development and job creation in the life sciences sector similar to the ongoing efforts at the state level.

Bad-loan disposal is the single most important task for banks at the moment. Apparently, the market is sending a cheer to Asahi's efforts.

A small daily task if it really be daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules

That personal decision should always be second. Knowing you have a few other things to accomplish before making that personal decision, means that you should put that personal decision aside and take care of the task right in front of you.

That's no easy task for any team. But it was even tougher to beat a team that's as good as Stratford.

You've just got to keep him guessing and hopefully we can do that. It's going to be a tough task for us but it's something we're definitely looking forward to, though.

You've got to understand -- for a lot of young guys that don't understand it -- that it's not going to be an easy task to go and knock them off. Yeah, we're playing at home, but it's still not going to be an easy task to knock them off like that.

Your task is to create a vision and put together your land (for a business park). There are people out there who will partner with you. We will.

You're looking at a data center that runs 2 percent of the Internet, ... That's quite a task to back it up. We have backup tapes, but they're all onsite here in New Orleans. We're still in the process of migrating to a new data center.

This is going to be a big game for us and a big task for our defense. They're going to come out and throw the ball.

This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better image and appearance. Our community betterment task force has done a great job over the last eight months of starting these initiatives and really making a difference.

This is going to be a tricky task because this particular individual apparently infected four people, but did not infect his four grown-up children who live with him.

This is a time for celebration for our team. But there are a lot of tough things going on campus. We don't know much about it. We've been out of town. But when you come back from winning your regional and getting a trip to the Final Four and the headline in the paper is about (the lacrosse team), it's kind of tough. But we just have to focus on our task at hand.

This is the first time the board is hearing this information. When there are budget constraints, it's never an easy thing to consider. But a committee or task force, I'm not sure that's a bad idea.

This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.

This goes all the way to the top, including the vice-president and the minister of finance, so we consider it an extremely serious matter. The president should call fresh elections so the people can elect a government they trust in the task of eliminating corruption.

This dramatic revolution marks the end of the probably most painful and dramatic decade in the history of Yugoslavia, ... Now our task is to look forward and make up for years of isolation and economic destruction.

This document suggests that Task Force 6-26 was part of a larger, clandestine program that we think may have links with high-ranking officials, because obviously someone high up had the authority to put this program in place.

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

They were combined into one task force to prevent duplication of effort.

This is a crucial game for us and it could put us on our way. It's going to be a very busy Easter period - the task ahead is in our own hands and now we have to go out there and do the business.

This is a county survey and, however you cut this up, the mayor convened the housing task force.