The democracies of Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey and South Africa are all currently failing to perform what is a basic task for any political system: to mediate smoothly between competing interest groups and power blocs in order to permit a broader public interest to prevail.
After this I started temping again and did a few short placements clerking legal aid cases and doing basic tasks for legal aid firms.
People at those stages have begun to slow mentally but can still do basic tasks for themselves and are not yet completely dependent on others.
Basic tasks for navigation of autonomous vehicles can be performed as reactive behaviors, that directly map sensory data into control commands with no need of internal representations.
BETHESDA, Md. — As the wife of a former N.F.L. player with degenerative dementia, Eleanor Perfetto finds herself performing the most basic tasks for her husband, Ralph Wenzel: she feeds him, bathes him and tries to explain all that is happening to him.
Dr. David Nahamoo, senior manager in the human language technologies department at I.B.M., which is responsible for the English-language portion of the project, said that speech recognition involves three basic tasks for the computer.
A pair of grizzled aid workers, Mambrú (Benicio Del Toro) and B (Tim Robbins), struggle to complete basic tasks for the good of the local population; anything grander or more noble, we sense, would be viewed as impractical and dumb.
These languages were also known as procedural languages, since they allowed programmers to develop and reuse procedures, subroutines, and functions to avoid reinventing basic tasks for every new application.
Although these less expensive options may come at a compromise of performance or storage capabilities, they can be well suited for basic tasks for students.
A PA. Reader, I could be that PA. — The underlying, unwritten context to this job listing doesn't seem to be "Jermain Defoe would like to pay you to do these extremely basic tasks for him"; the underlying context is "Jermain Defoe is unable to perform these extremely basic tasks, for reasons, and so is proposing to pay you money and have you on call 24/7 so that you can do them".
