The phrase "task him to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to assign someone a specific job or task to complete. For example, "I tasked him to prepare a report summarizing our findings from the research project."
Has there in living memory been a writer whom we (by which I mean the papers, mostly) so assiduously seek out for comment – we task him to review tennis, terrorism, pornography, the state of the nation – and whom we are then so keen to denounce as worthless?
For McCain, I would also think about a global role: Task him to lead the U.S. delegation to the next round of international climate change treaty talks in Copenhagen.
He chose ex-judge Sir Christopher Rose and tasked him to discover if the CPS or the police had withheld the evidence and whether there might be a systemic problem relating to undercover police officer cases.
On the top left hand corner of each note, Mulcaire would scribble the name of the journalist who had "tasked" him to acquire personal information.
"There was one guy, whom I'll call Fred, who hadn't bathed in at least a month," wrote Wartell, whose boss tasked him to getting Fred cleaned up.
In one of the episodes, "Black Ops Hypnosis," I reprogrammed a man's mind to become a covert operative and tasked him to do something he would never have done otherwise.
"But listen, we all knew it was going to be a very difficult task for him to win up there".
Much of his work involves estate planning for people with assets in different countries, a task requiring him to reconcile various tax codes, lawyers say.
I think if Stoner had not been able to ride then it would have been a tough task for him to keep in the championship race.
Stuart McCall will be painfully aware of the scale of the task facing him to improve Rangers as his team drew with the league's bottom side, Livingston.
"It is going to be a difficult task for him to hold his weight, but let him enjoy it while he can," former jockey Mick Kinane, a triple Derby winner, said.
