It left him looking like a weak little boy who inherited his daddy's realm for no good reason, who finds himself in a game he barely knows how to play and facing a task -- modernizing Syria -- for which he has no patience and no real plan.
He was given the task of modernizing the postal service and making it more efficient.
As Congress and state legislatures gather themselves for the task of modernizing the nation's antiquated voting systems and addressing the other flaws in the electoral process, there will be a strong temptation to settle for quick and ineffective remedies.
We make slick seminar presentations, rope in far-flung collaborators for the sake of sounding exciting, get all zippy and glitzy with graphics, and assign our savviest undergrad the task of modernizing the lab Web page.
Result: The IRS' public confidence numbers are up 20% since 1998, no small feat for an agency so widely reviled, and the stage has been set for the massive task of modernizing the agency's computer systems.
Biology education research (BER) can be a major contributor to the herculean task of modernizing and transforming biology education.
The Prime Minister, Mr Kostov, and his Foreign Minister, in their talks with the Group of the European People's Party in Brussels last week, convinced us that the reforming powers that have come together in the new Democratic Union will quickly set about the task of modernizing the state and the economy.
It was worth it!" Many were elated when Carlson was tasked with modernizing the pageant back in January.
John Ravitz, the executive director of the city's Board of Elections, gave a presentation yesterday on voting reform to members of a mayoral task force on modernizing elections and later oversaw a demonstration of the new devices to members of the board and the public, including several disabled residents.
She then chaired the province's review of the law in 2000, and is now giving it a third try as the co-chair of the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care's task force to "modernize" the policy.
In an interview in the Times in August, Paulus said that she had enlisted Parks to help with the task of "excavating and shaping and modernizing the story and particularly Bess".
