6 sentences with 'task'
Example sentences and phrases with the word task and other words derived from it.
• « I began the task of training Jerry again. For a few minutes he listened to me attentively, but then he tore off the handkerchief hanging in my pocket and ran like a deer across the pasture with his head in the wind. Sometimes all I could see was the grass moving in his wake. »
• « The problem for Rome was that most Germanic peoples regarded treaties as something that lasted only as long as the emperor who had authorised them lived; on his death, raiding often followed, as the old peace terms no longer held. The first task the new emperors had to attend to was often to suppress the latest invasion from the north. »
• « Therefore, almost all the major thinkers of the Enlightenment tried to get to the bottom of this task: what stands in the way of reason, and how can humanity become more reasonable? »
• « After Napoleon's final defeat in 1815, conservatives faced the daunting task of not only creating a new political order, but of keeping in check the political ideologies unleashed during the revolutionary era: liberalism, nationalism and socialism. »