What is "tasked"

Usage examples of "tasked".

Smoke was chimneying from volcanic vents, it was absent one of its moons, and the bridge of the gods had collapsed—all but force-fed rock by rock to the orbiting dovin basals tasked with shielding the world from attack.

Paradoxically, the Chinese government was itself trying to shove that rage aside because they, too, had to do business with the United States of America, now their number-one trading partner, and the source of vast amounts of surplus cash, which their government needed to do the things which Nomuri was tasked to find out about.

He was yet another former KGB officer, part then of the Third Chief Directorate, which had been a hybrid department of the former spy agency, tasked to overseeing the former Soviet military, and also to overseeing certain special operations of the latter force, like the Spetsnaz, Oleg Provalov knew.

The outbound leg from Ming’s office would be first-rate, tasked as it was to the service of the Party nobility.

This information rapidly found its way to the Diplomatic Protection Service, the State Department agency tasked with the job of securing foreign diplomats and their embassies.

But it was more interesting than tracking whales in the North Pacific, which some of PACFLT's boats had been tasked to do of late, to keep the tree-huggers happy.

These were tasked to finding targets for the shoot­ers, mainly F/A-18 Hornets.

The outbound leg from Ming's office would be first-rate, tasked as it was to the service of the Party nobility.

These were tasked to finding targets for the shooters, mainly F/A-18 Hornets.

Other aircraft tasked to a mission called IRON HAND sought out Chinese missile and flak batteries, and engaged those at safe distance with HARM anti-radiation missiles which sought out and destroyed acquisition and illumination radars with high reliability.

Shimrra had tasked Nen Yim to analyze an organic ship that was grown here, on Zonama Sekot.

Now he, too, was doing Shimrra's bidding and, like Onimi had become Shimrra's puppet and pet, tasked with safeguarding secrets.

Regarding Caluula Scaur believed that the nature of the negotiation—centered, as it was, on the observance of a rare natural phenomenon—might have appealed to whatever priests had been tasked with ruling on the request.

Their job was to mop up any mess that Twin Suns, Rogue, and the rest left behind, and to clear the way for the ships tasked with landing punches on the capital vessels: heavily armored E-wing fighters equipped with proton torpedoes, and twin-piloted Scimitar assault bombers, carrying enough concussive strafing power to decommission half the rock spitters of an enemy destroyer analog.

Your higher, those who ultimately tasked you, knew they were out of town.