They were familiar characters dropped into a familiar setting, tasked with a familiar, if daunting, mission: save the world.
With Oscar Mourinho's preferred playmaking number 10, the left-footed Mata is tasked with a wide right role which necessitates tracking back in defence.
Either they were trained by a man and then paid less, or were tasked with a small part of a man's job.
"The only thing that makes it less frightening to be tasked with a role that you have so much fondness for is the idea you're not letting some other arsehole fuck it up".
Police in Tehran are deploying 7,000 undercover morality agents tasked with a fresh crackdown on women defying strict rules on the wearing of the hijab, among other offences deemed un-Islamic.
They were tasked with a Level 8 mission: tracking down and disabling a sonic weapon that deactivated other weapons – the so-called "Overkill device" – in the fractious Caucasus region.
At times his gusty pace may have been too much for musicians tasked with a complete "Ring" cycle late in the season: the brass players were bedeviled by problems with pitch and execution.
Peter Kilfoyle, the Labour MP who was briefly tasked with a quango cull at the Cabinet Office, recalls that they "grew faster than I could get rid of them" and the goal was abandoned (again).
Sir Humphrey du Val, of the Table of Less Valued Knights, is tasked with a quest by an improbable damsel in distress, Elaine, and he duly sets off with his squire, Conrad, a "miniature giant", with predictably hilarious consequences.
The law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), which has long worked with Ashley and Sports Direct, carried out a preliminary review published this month and had been tasked with a further investigation.
Students are then tasked with a pretty serious group project: analyzing a state or local pension plan's solvency — whether it's the New York State Teachers Retirement Systemm or Calpers, the big California public pension plan — and coming up with ways to make it stronger.
