In addition to perfecting the task of making molecules, our role as chemists is to realize their potential, unravel mechanisms and devise a sustainable future using all of the methods in our toolbox — old ones, new ones, and those that remain to be discovered.
Teaching computer skills, she added, especially to an adult population, is time consuming and is a perfect task for volunteers.
"It's the perfect task for human-machine teaming".
Many different possibilities existed for characterizing the applications by topic, and this was not a perfect task.
The conglomerates, through marketing and maximum use of cable, DVDs, and other ancillary markets, have perfected the task of catering to the ever-emerging young audience — the audience they want to sell to — while older people have been cordoned into the fall season, to wander aimlessly the rest of the year like downsized workers; or they have decided simply to look at movies at home.
That's when you've perfected a task, and can do it almost without thinking, granting you extra mental bandwidth to think about or do other things while you're doing the task.
Sometimes, this leads professionals to spend an inordinate amount of time perfecting one particular task — say, the formatting of an internal presentation — instead of spending time where it might be more useful.
When you've finished everything, you can backtrack and finish perfecting your original task.
Even a perfect CV is no good if it never leaves your desk, or if you spend valuable time -- time you should be spending on other job-search tasks -- perfecting it.
"The task of perfecting our union moves forward.
While Wayne was usually in charge of group lessons, his wife had the more difficult task of perfecting her sons' strokes — of transmuting talent and enthusiasm into skill.
