In fact, he makes a plea for an end, once and for all, to academic prejudice against military history in writing on the Civil War, on the grounds that the soldiers were emphatically citizen-soldiers, embarked on a task clearly conceived as temporary and finite: crushing the rebellion.
As a Peruvian educated by British and American teachers, I learned never to embark on a major task without first "doing the math". No more of that Latino "happy go lucky, trust your gut and say three Hail Marys" approach to life.
It is the reason we embark on any task, job or mission.
Use another piece of equipment or embark on an important task such as refilling your water bottle.
For those who have never embarked on such a task, Glassdoor put together a 17-page guide that covers topics like what software to use, calculating adjusted pay gaps and how to gather the data.
Arkansas, which has not put anyone to death since 2005, is about to embark on a grimly accelerated task.
If you know you're about to embark on a particularly challenging task, turn your phone off or put it on silent to make sure it doesn't become a distraction.
So he embarked on a prosaic task far removed from his musical talents.
Back in April 2011, we embarked on a mammoth task; to build a 24 hour literary clock.
Athens embarked on a herculean task when it successfully bid to bring the Olympic Summer Games back to home turf.
In the hours after the explosion, shocked officers embarked on the grim task of searching for casualties, at first mistaking shop-window mannequins for bodies.
