"All right, Roxanna, you're on belay," Ms. Wicks said, focusing on the present task.
The F.S.B.'s present task is to ensure internal security -- to fight terrorism, foreign espionage and sedition.
But a belief that a future task would somehow be easier -- and more important -- than any present task also seemed to have played a crucial and damaging role.
Bollini's present task is recalibrating the PR2 to perfectly mix flour, sugar and butter, as dry beans were initially used to avoid messes.
This is perhaps best expressed in Rattigan's plays The Browning Version, Separate Tables and The Deep Blue Sea, all filmed in the 1950s, but none with such love, attention and understanding as Davies brings to his present task.
We suggest that semantic pattern completion may require the disambiguation of feature combinations (i.e. the clues in the present task) and, therefore, rely on the complex representations of feature conjunctions provided by the PRC37,57.
Its present task is relatively easy; it addresses foreigners, mainly Chinese, informing them about a very useful application Toorbee, for their stay in Greece.
With the present task setting as a sequence labeling problem, there would be several future work worth further investigation.
During that same period, we have consistently intervened to maintain the lock of U.S. corporations on the world's resources, continuing to the present task of making Iraq and Libya safe for our oil companies.
He compared successful meditation to skiing ― you're so concentrated staying upright as you race downhill that you erase any thoughts that aren't related to the present task.
This is because when your brain is working through your to-do list, focusing on one thing and then the next, it narrows perspective, screening out anything irrelevant to the present task.
