On the day of her visit, she'd sat on a little canvas folding stool and watched in wonder as the children silently unfurled their small rugs around the room and then settled into their private, absorbing, intricate tasks.
As the system expands, it will gradually absorb many tasks once handled directly by other city agencies, Mr. Menchini said.
Spending these last years absorbed in tasks by which I do not identify myself, and for which I have very few reference points, has allowed me to hear, when approaching my fiction, right at the instant when all the frequencies are tapped into at once, what is static, and what is tuned.
In playing music, she finally met a task absorbing and complex enough to satisfy her.
Workers have confronted the same difficult task: absorbing the shock of unemployment and figuring out what to do next.
After the group was dismissed for deliberations, the jury sat silent for about 20 minutes, absorbing the herculean task ahead.
Urban waste management is becoming an increasingly complex task, absorbing a huge amount of resources, and having a major environmental impact.
Because of its Frito-Lay snack food business, which accounted for roughly 60percentt of its $18.7 billion in revenue last year, analysts have long believed that Pepsi would face a far less cumbersome task absorbing Quaker's packaged food division.
Landing gear suspension systems fulfill the tasks of absorbing the vertical energy of the touch-down as well as providing passenger and crew comfort with a smooth ground ride before take-off and after landing.
Realtime conversations can be public or private, absorbing IM for many tasks and creating filtering opportunities based not on keywords but social vetting.
Boeri explains that the Bosco Verticale "hands over to vegetation itself the task of absorbing the dust in the air and of creating an adequate micro-climate in order to filter out the sunlight.
