The more fit-for-the-task they want to appear the more they must express they are devoid of emotion and free of any association hence eminently qualified to make decisions with complete impartiality.
Until recently, the Knicks (despite their place in the standings) hardly seemed fit for the task.
His resolve is steel, and he appears fit for the task, with thick, ropy legs and calves the size of hams.
Various financial licences and permissions, after all, depend on the regulators' agreement that a firm is fit for the task; clients also make similar, if less formal, judgments.
At the moment representative democracy – MPs and councillors – hardly looks fit for the task in the light of public dissatisfaction with parliaments and town halls and growing contempt for those inhabiting them.
"Software technology is now becoming a very large component of our total exports and how we police it before it gets out of country will become an increasingly difficult question and I think the government has to review its processes to consider whether they are fit for the task".
And that's a nice thing to hold on to: a great book is its very own elixir; it will show you, each time you pick it up, that you are fitter for the task of reading it than you ever were before.
It could be that the candidate most fit for the task at hand has already been eliminated, and neither of the two remaining in the presidential race measure up.
