Sentences with phrase «given a task by»

Everyone convened in groups they had been assigned then were given tasks by their leader.

Everyone convened in groups they had been assigned then were given tasks by their leader.

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

As you traverse through Gemea, you'll be given tasks by many of those that call Gemea home to help you get familiar with the locals and get you all the essentials you'll need to continue on.

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By performing this experiment you can better determine which tasks might be fine done in parallel and which are completed more effectively given singular focus.

Flow is a term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience to mean complete absorption in a given task where concentration is «so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant.»

He says that it «gives a macro view of what's going on and allows you to delegate tasks that may be better completed by another person.»

Lucas was frustrated at being given menial tasks by his kid brother, and in 2008, they agreed that Dan would become majority owner.

Monadelphous Group and AnaeCo's long - delayed waste treatment plant in Shenton Park has finally been given a completion date, with a short list of tasks to be finished by mid-April.

Focusing on one task at a time won't work if your phone is consistently interrupting you with personal texts or the latest ballgame scores, so productive people give themselves the gift of momentum by eliminating distractions from immediate surroundings.

And an amazingly quantitative study performed by Cornell University directly correlates room temperature to the amount of errors in a given task.

By tapping into cloud - based technology that organizes and prioritizes your tasks, you can accomplish more in a given day, even while on the go.

Some people multitask by switching back and forth between different tasks in a given time period.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

By hiring externally, companies can instantly gain specific skills for certain projects, get an outsider's perspective without emotional investment to the business and augment their team to give them more resources for time - dependent tasks.

Skinner recommends beginning by taking time to identify the tasks and functions you can off - load (some, like key client relationships, for instance, should not be delegated) and then systemically giving them away.

Moreover, such tools give teams the ability to get instant status updates on projects, either by messaging a project team all at once or reviewing tasks.

Payoffs at the end of the trading task (in British pounds) were given by, where C is final cash balance, A is final asset holdings, and dt is total dividends or costs at period t.

By providing funding and allowing business owners to outsource their time - consuming invoice management, Liquid Capital has given many businesses the freedom to save time and focus on their most important task — growing their business.

The company gave Alexa a woman's voice and name in the first place, and then set it up for ire and abuse by giving Alexa the impossible task of responding accurately to an infinity of requests and commands.

Cobb concludes that it is «the task of the Christian imagination to generate visions of what is actually possible that can give realism to efforts guided by the passion for justice» (PTPT 151).

The promotion of missions and other popular programmes in parishes and in the workplace can help the faithful to rediscover the gift of baptismal faith and the task of giving witness, knowing that the Christian vocation «by its very nature is also a vocation to the apostolate».

The benefactor is being called to give neither too much nor too little but to discover due proportion in giving a fit and equitable amount, responsive to the competing claims of ever - changing human needs.17 If beneficence is accompanied by a moroseness that silently signals the recipient that it is a very heavy task indeed for the giver to provide, the touchstone of pastoral counsel is «God loves a cheerful giver» (2 Cor.

But they do have a task, a task that was given to them by their mother churches overseas — find a way to heal the anomaly that is life on the ground in the so - called «diaspora.»

I end here by repeating my conviction that the canonical interpretation of Scripture is the theologians main job and by adding to it my further conviction that only those who give themselves to this task first and foremost will ever be fit to interpret anything else on God's behalf.

My own manner of doing it is by no means the only possible one; doubtless there can be and there are other and perhaps better ways of accomplishing the task, In any event, we need to bear in mind Whitehead's remarkable statement that «Christ gave his life; it is for Christians to discern the doctrine.»

The number of arbitrary psychological interpretations at the same time from the basis of important structures of thought; and how often do people think that the task of criticism has already been discharged by palying tuneful psychological variations on the given factual theme!»

Theological interpretation of scripture (when it is not burdened by large - scale hermeneutical theory or an inflated ecclesiology); historical theology (especially when animated by astonishment at the gifts which the Spirit has given to the saints through the great thinkers of the past); systematics (when it sets aside anxieties about relevance or plausibility and gives itself to the task of loving description of the gospel).

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

One knows of schools where the important duties of governors are being concealed and they are being sidelined by being given most unsuitable, and essentially trivial, tasks such as superficial school visits.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

All this is done by God who, through Christ, changed us from enemies into his friends, and gave us the task of making others his friends also» (2 Cor.

By the beginning of the twentieth century all the churches of Europe and North America were heavily involved in what they called Foreign Missions, by which they meant their God - given task of Christianizing the rest of the worlBy the beginning of the twentieth century all the churches of Europe and North America were heavily involved in what they called Foreign Missions, by which they meant their God - given task of Christianizing the rest of the worlby which they meant their God - given task of Christianizing the rest of the world.

First, I was always reminded that my task in the pulpit was not to give a little talk that might be called «Bob Brown looks at life,» and might be characterized by an opening phrase like, «Here are some things I've been thinking about this week.»

«It would be equally naive to believe, as the Assisted Dying Bill suggests, that such pressure could be recognised in every instance by doctors given the task of assessing requests for assisted suicide.

Ephesians 4:12 clears this up by giving them two tasks.

And God has provided two means by which we can accomplish these God - given tasks: work and prayer.

Metz is convinced that faith can not accept this relativization, and accordingly it is an essential task of fundamental theology... to defend, justify or give an account of the authenticity of religion, in opposition to those systems that claim to be meta - theories of theology».6 It can not do this by developing a still more comprehensive overview.

Unity does not come from us, it is given to us by God when we become Christians, and it is simply our task to maintain it in the Spirit.

It is in assuming this sacrificial task that we Israeli Jews uphold the charge given to us by God in Exodus 19: «For all the earth / land is mine; and you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.»

I submit that the real pastoral task is to stand up boldly, even if embarrassedly, in the middle of all this and dare to proclaim as clearly and sensitively and faithfully as we know how the gospel of Jesus Christ: that these tacky, romantic, transitory moments are redeemed by his loving presence in our midst and thereby given eternal significance.

The real pastoral task is to stand up boldly, even if embarrassedly, in the middle of all these tacky, romantic, transitory moments in so many weddings and dare to proclaim as clearly and sensitively and faithfully as we know how that through the gospel of Jesus Christ we are redeemed by his loving presence in our midst, and there by we give the wedding eternal significance.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the...

Why should we, the American people, have to, by proxy via this prez, give money to those who want us dead and will do anything to accomplish that task??? These are game changers.

The greatest task ever given to mankind by God is given to this motley crew of apostles, some of whom believe, and some of whom doubt.

In eternity past, God did not choose who He would unconditionally and irresistibly bring into His church, but rather, decided that all those who believed in Jesus and in so doing became members of His church, to them He would give the task of being a blessing to the world by sharing serving one another, declaring God's grace, and loving others just as He has loved us.

The spiritual experience to which theology gives expression is vindicated, and even the theological expression is appreciated as a kind of poetry, but the real task of interpretation is taken over by philosophy.

Stung by this, he shut himself up in the Repetentenzimmer and gave himself to a task he had had in mind since having heard Schleiermacher lecture on the Life of Christ in Berlin in 1831: the writing of a critical life of Christ.

I know that chopping up a pumpkin seems like a daunting task, but it's really not too bad, especially since I give you a step - by - step below the recipe.