Sentence examples for turned over the task from inspiring English sources

Politicians happily turned over the task of holding down costs to the managed-care industry in the 80's and 90's.

Grantham, who has largely turned over the task of handling GMO's clients' money to younger colleagues, has become a kind of in-house intellectual — "chief of propaganda," as he puts it — a role eminently suited to his gifts for big-picture thinking and storytelling.

Back in the 1980s, when Padmore had turned over the task of thankless Windies spinner to Raphick Jumadeen, it briefly looked as if wrist spinners might disappear from the game altogether, a situation that prompted TMS stalwarts Brian Johnston, Henry Blofeld and Christopher Martin-Jenkins to take up the leggies' cause with genuine fervour.

And as diverse and interesting as we can be, we can never hope to match the true diversity and range of interests found in any great city, so we've turned over the task of curator to our community, putting ourselves out of a job as we become the curator of curators," said Mark Mangan, co-founder of Flavorpill.

Now NASA is trying to turn over the routine tasks of carrying cargo — and eventually, astronauts — to the space station while it focuses its human spaceflight program on exploration of the inner solar system.

Just hours before the White House disclosed the Justice Department request, President Bush, meeting with Republican lawmakers, vigorously defended his refusal to turn over the records of the energy task force to Congress, according to several people who attended the meeting.

He said they needed to turn over this task quickly to Iraqi militia forces who could work with Iraqi civic and tribal leaders to draw up security arrangements tailored to each part of the country.

Some people also may feel better turning over the task to someone else because they feel conflicted about challenging a medical provider.

United States military officials in Falluja moved to halt their siege of the city, proposing to turn over the task of ending the anti-American insurgency to a new force of Iraqi soldiers, led by officers once loyal to Saddam Hussein.

The bill would turn over the task of administering drug coverage to private benefit managers, who would compete to attract enrollees by offering better service and cutting costs -- perhaps by encouraging enrollees to use generic drugs.

Some of them, to be sure, were third graders who were encouraged by their teachers to write him in North Brooklin, asking whether Stuart ever found Margalo, or what became of Wilbur in the fullness of age: these letters came in by the bagful, and in time Andy had to turn over the task of replying to others.