Sentence examples for turned to the task from inspiring English sources

Scholars since then have turned to the task of understanding how the knowledge was used.

He then turned to the task of awakening the political consciousness of the people through two weekly newspapers that he owned and edited: Kesari ("The Lion"), published in Marathi, and The Mahratta, published in English.

The campaign also turned to the task of finding the tone it wanted to strike and the message it wanted to deliver as it continued its battle in another court, that of public opinion.

Although no overarching privacy protection law has been passed by Congress, said David Medine, a former Federal Trade Commission official who is a lawyer in Washington, decades-old consumer protection measures have been effectively turned to the task.

I referenced the 1968 report of the Kerner Commission on the racial uprisings of the 1960s, which said, "it is the responsibility of the news media to tell the story of race relations in America, and with notable exceptions, the media have not yet turned to the task with the wisdom, sensitivity and expertise it demands".

A6 NATIONAL A7-19 New Orleans SearchersAttention to the Dead Troops patrolled the streets, rescuers hunted for stragglers and New Orleans looked like a wrecked ghost town as the evacuation of the city neared completion and officials turned to the task of collecting bodies in a ghastly landscape awash in possibly thousands of corpses.

The court now turns to the task of distributing the money.

Sated, I'd turn to the task at hand and concentrate for an hour or so, if I was lucky.

The Arab world must confront its historical demons and tackle its infirmities and its contradictions: when it turns to the task, the awakening will truly have begun.

And now attention turns to the task of the next decade: slowly unwinding the debt that has built up over the past generation.

He is turning to the task with what seems an improbable claim: that the job is closer to completion than people appreciate.There is, however, some truth to it.