Mr Norman Tebbit was now charged with the task of explaining the Government to the country.
His successors have faced the tougher, and generally duller task of explaining the logistics of implementation.
And for Cherone Hooks, the boy's teacher at a day care center, there was the task of explaining his absence.
Lorain County sheriff Sgt. Donald Barker had the unlucky task of explaining that Lyons didn't return with her fellow prisoners.
So Terry Eagleton – literary critic, liberal-baiter, Marxist man of letters – has set himself the task of explaining why Marx was right.
John Fitzgerald, the Australian captain, had the task of explaining that the correct anthem would be played as soon as someone found a copy.
An authority on modern French intellectual history, he is director of the Remarque Institute in New York, entrusted with the task of explaining Europe to America.
It has also helped ingrain the notion that transparency and pedagogy (the task of explaining, tirelessly) are essential to the very survival of the European project.
Then he smiles, signifying not amusement but the satisfying knowledge that, already right in his own mind, he has only to complete the undemanding task of explaining why.
I was left facing the task of explaining to my daughter why her present would not be there on Christmas Day.
The task of explaining the pattern fell to Moghabhai Desai, the bureau's chief engineer, a gentle and patient man whose office is crammed with maps.
