The fact is that the person who was charged had been tasked by a senior operative in Isil, an Australian man now resident is Syria, to carry out a murderous attack on random Australian citizens.
Most US spies who had betrayed the country were tasked by a foreign government to steal and pass information, but Regan had initiated his espionage scheme on his own.
They happen upon an ambush, and Robin is tasked by a dying man to return a sword to Nottingham, a once-proud village now forced into a hand-to-mouth existence under oppressive taxation.
Verloc, a dullish spy embedded in a circle of ineffectual English anarchists, is tasked by a foreign government (here Germany) to rile a complacent Britain by blowing up the Greenwich Observatory.
Mulcaire's working day would start when he was "tasked" by a journalist at the newspaper, whose name would be written in the top left hand corner of a note of what he was able to find out.
In what was easily one of the most fun projects yet on "Cake Boss," Buddy Valastro and his team were tasked by a bridal salon to make a life-sized wedding dress cake.
I also encountered glimpses of that major bulwark against disintegration of the state – Kenya's well-educated, well-informed middle class – when I was tasked by an editor with the job of looking for a supporter of John McCain.
As a regular among the foreigners at the palace, young Rainilaiarivony was tasked by an English merchant as a courier for his confidential business correspondence.
After graduating in 1964, he got a job teaching in Sheffield, where he was tasked by Tony Cliff, a founding member of the SWP, to build a branch of the International Socialists.
Chodkiewicz was tasked by the king with an advance on Moscow.
Kingdom is tasked by councils with dealing with a range of minor offences.
