Sentence examples for cultural task from inspiring English sources

Though his reign was politically unsuccessful, Alfonso VI carried out an important cultural task by Europeanizing his dominions.

Still, the site is considered authoritative, and Mr. Atoon was recently contacted by some thankful users who rely on it for a crucial cultural task: captioning music videos.

The Kindle, an Amazon electronic book reader, may make getting your hands on a book faster, but in the process, it could "make it a lot harder to indulge in the crucial cultural task of judging books — and the people who read them — by their covers," wrote the columnist Meghan Daum in The Los Angeles Times last fall.

She would not be able to perform even the cultural task required to achieve great power status: In her current borders, 63% of the population consider Russian to be their native language, a number three times larger than the number of ethnic Russians.

Provoking such calamities, and uncovering their causes, is one of the most useful cultural tasks a modern city can perform.

Outsourcing, for example, involves complex cross-border, cross-cultural managerial tasks that must be treated as an integral part of a business, especially as companies stay focused on their customers.

He also had to screen performers for the revival of cultural events, a task that came to a head when Anton Lang, who had played the part of Christ in the Passion Play at Oberammergau before the war, and who had since joined the S.S., requested permission to take up the role once more.

As a result of cultural effects and task traits, it is possible that the subjects performed an analogous strategy in all conditions.

We observed a striking cultural contrast across tasks between the fixation scanpaths of our two cultural populations: Western Caucasian observers consistently fixated the eye region, and partially the mouth, whereas East Asian observers fixated more on the central region of the face.

This task requires cultural sensitivity, understanding and full political and economic engagement with the Muslim world.

Either way, reversing the cultural tide appears a task worthy of King Canute.