' task force '

A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.

The task force might make a start in Washington with Republican congressional leaders.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

He had formed his own task force of three stragglers and led them up the hill in a Fighting Seventh charge.

This task force aims to actively address antimicrobial resistance, and is coordinated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), and the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), as well as other US agencies.

The first task was to establish a resistance force which had the hearts and minds of the people.

This was one of the most prominent items on Clinton's legislative agenda, and resulted from a task force headed by Hillary Clinton.

In 490 BC, he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria.

The Athenians and Eretrians sent a task force of 25 triremes to Asia Minor to aid the revolt.

After island-hopping across the Aegean, including successfully attacking Naxos, the Persian task force arrived off Euboea in mid summer.

Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc.

After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the Red Book Compact Disc standard.

The task force consisted of around four to eight persons, though according to Philips, the Compact Disc was " invented collectively by a large group of people working as a team.

1st century BC ), described the invention of a mechanical arrow firing catapult ( katapeltikon ) by a Greek task force in 399 BC.

1st century BC ), described the invention of a mechanical arrow firing catapult ( katapeltikon ) by a Greek task force in 399 BC.

Each task force represented an important part of early CUIC work.

The Racial Justice task force created gatherings and discussions on racial justice.

The Ministry task force received much of the attention from church structures, however.

The CUC had a task force whose mandate was to consider revising them.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to assemble a large number of carriers into a single task force, known as Kido Butai.

This task force was used with devastating effect during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was made, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force.

Spitzer argued that " mental disorders are a subset of medical disorders " but the task force decided on the DSM statement: " Each of the mental disorders is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome.

A controversy emerged regarding deletion of the concept of neurosis, a mainstream of psychoanalytic theory and therapy but seen as vague and unscientific by the DSM task force.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

The Spanish began to create permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba, soon after Columbus ' arrival in the Caribbean, but the coast of Cuba was not fully mapped until 1509, when Sebastián de Ocampo completed this task.

Arthur N. Young of the Department of State was selected for this task and began work in Honduras in August 1920, continuing to August 1921.

President Callejas, a United States-trained economist, brought new professionalism and technical skills to the central government as he began the arduous task of long-term economic reform.

Albert began his task by touring the Empire, preaching a Crusade against the Baltic countries, and was assisted in this by a Papal Bull, which declared that fighting against the Baltic heathens was of the same rank as participating in a crusade to the Holy Land.

Almost immediately, Gregory began the task of repairing the Walls of Rome, beginning at the Porta Tiburtina.

Originally, animation was all hand-drawn by artists, though in the 1980s, beginning with Captain Power, computers began to automate the task of creating repeated images ; by the 1990s, hand-drawn animation became defunct.

In 863, they began the task of translating the Bible into the language now known as Old Church Slavonic and travelled to Great Moravia to promote it.

He gave Cardinal Wolsey the task of prosecuting his case ; Wolsey began by consulting university experts.

Although Tízoc's reign was relatively short, he began the rebuilding of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan ( a task completed by his younger brother in 1487 ), and also put down a rebellion of the Matlatzincan peoples of the Toluca Valley.

The author's interest in parliamentary procedure began in 1863 when he was chosen to preside over a church meeting and, although he accepted the task, felt that he did not have the necessary knowledge of proper procedure.

While Calthrop began the task of designing hundreds of costumes and dozens of sets, Coward worked on the script, which he completed in August 1931.

Mystara began as several semi-independent projects by different teams of writers who were each assigned to the task of developing different cultures and nations that would exist in the fantasy world that was supported by Dungeons & Dragons at the time.

Darius began preparations for a second force which he would command, instead of his generals ; however, before the preparations were complete, Darius died, thus leaving the task to his son Xerxes.

' LCROSS began its trip to the moon on the same rocket as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ), which continues to conduct a different lunar task.

The construction of the subterranean facility began in 1984 and was an international task: In addition to Germany 11 further countries participated in the development of HERA.

Almost immediately after the Ann Arbor speech, 14 separate task forces began studying nearly all major aspects of United States society under the guidance of presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Richard N. Goodwin.

After task force reports were submitted to the White House, Moyers began a second round of review.

Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety ( later headed by Maximilien Robespierre ), and was given a monumental task: “ To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general .” Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, and the guillotine began to fall on perceived enemies of the republic at an ever-increasing rate, beginning the period known today as the Reign of Terror.

In the late 1950s, the KMZ plant in Ukraine took over the task of supplying the military and the Irbit Motorcycle Works ( IMZ ) began to concentrate on making bikes for domestic consumers.

Interim studio head William Goetz, serving in that capacity while Darryl F. Zanuck was fulfilling his military duty, assigned Preminger the task of developing the books for the screen, and he began working with Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt.

A drawing of Joyce ( with eyepatch ) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake

Abdur Rahman bin Awf withdrew his eligibility to be appointed as Caliph in order to act as a moderator and began his task by interviewing every member of the committee separately.

However, following the deaths of both brothers, the entire inheritance passed to Władysław, who began the task of re-uniting the Kingdom of Poland.

The substantial task of re-building the cloisters as an education centre and refectory began in 2003 and was completed in May 2007.