Double task This double task was evidently beyond Sir Anthony's resources.
Mysteries are a challenge, a double task for the writer, for the reader is aching to solve the puzzle before you do".
The conservationist faces a double task: the breeding of self-sustaining populations of endangered species in captivity, and the return of captive populations to the wild.
You are engaged on a double task, recovery and reform - recovery from the slump and the passage of those business and social reforms which are long overdue.
In 1921 Ernest Newman wrote in the Guardian of "the sensible view that Stravinsky is a man of genius" who sometimes found "the double task of expressing a new spirit and making a new language a little beyond his powers".
The complicated double task for us pro-American Europeans is to strengthen Europe's capacity to act outside its own borders while disentangling the idea of a stronger Europe from its sticky anti-American integument.
In "Nudes Without Desire" – the finely wrought essay in which that minatory phrase appears – Malcolm attempts a similar double task as in "Good Pictures", considering art's misrepresentation of nude subjects, and also "the nude genre's resistance to easy generalisation".
All of them face a difficult double task: to explain scientific results to the general reader and to use these results to illuminate the deepest mysteries of the human mind.
When women executives return to the office, after several months of absence, they typically start to work shorter hours, the study shows: 52 hours per week, compared with an average 58 hours for their male peers, as they adapt to their new double task.
Whatever these two new films' other liabilities, part of what makes their central performances so dazzling – Streep in particular is magnificent – is that both actors are taking on the double task of impersonating women who, notoriously, were themselves said to impersonate women.
The second experiment uses the same protocol, as the first one to which are added new problems as well as one paradigm of double task.
