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.
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.
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.
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.
Just imagine the task confronting an analyst in the Middle East.
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.
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.
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.
For this reason, when most engineers are confronted with such a task, they seek to find simpler techniques.
