The first thing the tutor said to my daughter about the timed drills was something along the lines of, "They're not fun are they?" I'd forgotten that all-important piece to working with young learners, which is to acknowledge the fear or trepidation they feel confronting a task they find daunting.
Given these factors, Mr. Putin's proposal has found tacit approval among foreign analysts, for whom the changes mark a necessary move by a politician who is expending popularity at a time of relative prosperity to confront a politically tough task.
To a significant degree, political analysts said, the governor is passing through a predictable juncture for a presumptive Republican nominee, confronting a familiar task of softening the hard edges that usually develop in a nominating process that tugs candidates to the right.
Confronted with a task, what would spark your keenest interest?
First, we included only non-health outcomes in the ranking task and respondents were not confronted with a task consisting of both health as well as non-health outcomes.
That meant that "ER" confronted a seemingly impossible task at 10 p.m.: recruiting an audience back to NBC on that show's merits alone.
But even as he sought understanding for the difficulties confronting a monumental rebuilding task that has been under way for only a month or so, Mr. Wolfowitz was greeted with skepticism from many senators.
"Given that this fiscal repair job is likely to be the major policy challenge for the next government, it is striking how reticent all three major U.K. parties have been in explaining how they would confront that task," a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, a study group in London, said earlier this week.
Ministers are also worried because they will have to confront that task in an uncertain environment.
The current task force confronts a different challenge than that faced by drafters of the seismic code, among them Richard L. Tomasetti, president of the Thornton-Tomasetti Group.
One of the best, least celebrated of Scandinavian movies of the past few years, We Shall Overcome (2006) was set in 1969 in a conventional Danish town where a spirited 13-year-old schoolboy, a radical follower of Martin Luther King, takes on the uphill task of confronting a reactionary headmaster, a sadistic bully whose role as pillar of the community no one dare challenge.
