Sentence examples similar to the task is in hand from inspiring English sources

Happily, though, the task is not left solely in such unqualified hands, for there are plenty of central government agencies to help them.

The final task was a hand cold pressor task where participants were asked to place their hand in icy cold water for up to 2 minutes.

An even longer and perhaps more difficult task is now in the hands of antidoping officials and federal investigators who seek to build a fraud case against Lance Armstrong and a group of his associates suspected of being involved in systematic doping.

That task is now in your hands, as is the answer to the question posed at this university half a century ago about whether a free society can still compete.

The second task is often more challenging but goes hand-in-hand with the first.

Keeping a lid on costs is impossible if the task in hand is keeping the lid on an exploding atomic bomb.

The task in hand is now to do it in the next decade.

With the human genome sequence now in hand, the first task is annotation, a word borrowed from computer programmers' practice of writing explanations alongside the major routines in a piece of software.

The task in hand is blunting the runaway leaders.

The task in hand is now to characterize the expression patterns and responses unique to each landrace and the genes or specific alleles involved in order to compare with other commercial maize germplasm and suggest possible breeding or transgenic strategies to improve drought tolerance.

This is because the task now in hand does not involve action but merely the acquisition of knowledge" (AT VII 22/CSM II 15).