Sentence examples for major task is from inspiring English sources

"Our major task is making sure we get the balance right," he said.

Its next major task is to find a rock to drill into, and that requires moving to a new spot.

Libya's other major task is writing a constitution that will decide the character of the new state.

Another major task is to convince skeptical Germans, particularly in the east, that NATO is keeping its 1997 bargain with Russia that alliance troops would not be stationed permanently at Russia's edge.

He was sworn into office last weekend, and the first major task is to deal with the uprising in the east of the country, which has led to dozens of deaths over the past two months.

The president-elect's other major task is to strengthen democratic institutions that were weakened by the corruption and intimidation of former President Alberto Fujimori and his intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.

Its first major task was to decide the fate of the ex-king.

"When I called Terrence," Mr. O'Brien remembered, "and told him about this project, he said, 'I would have killed you if you hadn't asked me to do it.' " The team's major task was finding a composer.

In the preface to his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), the best exposition of his theory, Maxwell stated that his major task was to convert Faraday's physical ideas into mathematical form.

As deputy secretary, his first major task was to shepherd through the Senate the Panama Canal treaties that, in exchange for returning sovereignty over the canal territory to Panama, gave the United States the right to reopen it militarily.

His major task was preparation of a revised edition of the New Testament since he was well aware that the hurried edition of 1516 had many defects.