Sentence examples for principal task to from inspiring English sources

Vivendi's current chief executive, Jean-René Fourtou, has made it his principal task to shore up the company's finances by cutting the debt accumulated by his predecessor.

When Darwin returned to the same area two years later in 1834, having diverted to the Falkland Islands and Argentina as part of Captain Robert Fitzroy's principal task to map the coasts of southern South America, nothing much had changed.

I share his conviction in the sense that we must defend perestroika -- I proclaimed this thesis from the outset as the principal task to be accomplished by this congress.

That has made the Information Ministry, in effect, part of Iraq's front line, its principal task to raise international protests against the United States and Britain to the point where, the Iraqis hope, the allies will be forced to abandon the effort to overthrow Mr. Hussein.

Although Griffin's immediate priority was to get the space shuttle flying again, he saw his principal task to be that of reengaging NASA with the endeavour of sending humans to explore space beyond low Earth orbits, and he envisioned the eventual establishment of human settlements in other parts of the solar system.

Hegel recognizes that art can portray animals, plants and inorganic nature, but he sees it as art's principal task to present divine and human freedom.

For years its principal task was to give structure to other wines, to beef them up, as it were.

Issa's principal task was to bring cash to pay the cast and crew at the end of each day, but he often didn't appear and Knight had to pay everyone out of his own pocket.

The analysis shows that for the HRAM to become competitive, the principal task is to reduce spatial light modulator (SLM) pixel sizes to 1 μm, increase the output power of compact visible-wavelength lasers to several hundred milliwatts, and develop ways to raise the sensitivity of holographic media to the order of 1 cm/J.

"The principal task was to sell these things to somebody for cash".

And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the "thing" that is waiting to be articulated.