"Honey do" list items

Usage examples of tasks.

Many an innocent deck swab, lost overboard long ago by some negligent sailor and floating vertically, handle up, has caused a task force to turn away at high speed, expending hundreds of barrels of fuel oil, and 10,000 men to leave their normal tasks and rush to battle stations.

But it was also a proof of the quality of the training he had given them that his men could successfully perform the demanding tasks expected of them without him.

And both carriers needed the practice, needed their new air groups blooded against relatively light opposition so that that part would be over and so that they could settle down confidently to the more dangerous and important tasks which they would be assigned.

Hitler issued on November 12, 1940, a comprehensive top-secret directive outlining new military tasks all over Europe and beyond.

It is hardly likely that transport tonnage is available for such occupation tasks or for bringing up supplies.

July 31, 1941, when the Einsatzgruppen were already falling with gusto to their extermination tasks in Russia.

For Bormann and Goebbels, there were still tasks to perform in the Third Reich, now bereft of its founder and dictator, though they were not the same tasks.

The question flitted briefly through her mindconjecture and consideration were tasks too demanding to exercise.

Imass have tasks before them that will require a journey to the Pannion Domin.

Mikolashek needed to seize the Rumaylah oilfields, among other tasks, and he wanted to catch the Iraqi ground forces unaware.

The deployment of the units that handled these tasks had to be carefully sequenced so that they arrived in time to support the rest of the force, and the TPFDL was the system that was used to do so.

Like McKiernan and Abizaid, Garner was short of personnel for the tasks he was assigned and counted on using the Iraqi army.

While it was preparing to assist refugees and distribute humanitarian assistance, it had neither the funds nor personnel for major nation-building tasks or for engineering a new political order in Iraq.

Abizaid was under no illusion that the new military would instantly be transformed into a crack fighting force and the idea was to initially arrange for the Iraqi soldiers to undertake minor tasks like guarding government buildings and monitoring border crossing points.

But as the days dwindle to five and four and then three, the passing hours burst like bubbles, and tasks that seemed simple suddenly become complex.