When the watchman grows weary, he stands up and prays ; and then he sits down again and courageously takes up his former task.

In Soviet-controlled East Germany, the major task of the ruling communist party in Germany was to channel Soviet orders down to both the administrative apparatus and the other bloc parties pretending that these were initiatives of its own, with deviations potentially leading to reprimands, imprisonment, torture and even death.

The Brewers won the first two games of their final homestand of the season to pull within two games of the Cubs, but faced a near impossible task with the club's elimination number down to only three and the wild card leading Padres coming to town.

Before the players sit down they must complete a task that the music person gives out before each round.

The focus of procedural programming is to break down a programming task into a collection of variables, data structures, and subroutines, whereas in object-oriented programming it is to break down a programming task into objects that expose behavior ( methods ) and data ( members or attributes ) using interfaces.

Tracking down and searching for an individual's name on a specific bell from a ship may be a difficult and time-consuming task.

After two better known directors turned down the job, cast member Jonathan Frakes was chosen to direct to make sure the task fell to someone who understood Star Trek.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

He had come down to the underworld for his 12th task.

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.

After a few minutes the blows ceased and Mr. Gladstone, resting on the handle of his axe, looked up, and with deep earnestness in his voice, and great intensity in his face, exclaimed: ‘ My mission is to pacify Ireland .’ He then resumed his task, and never said another word till the tree was down.

* December 2 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message " Climb Mount Niitaka " is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.

The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

In 1817, the deplorable state of the War Department led four men to turn down requests to fill the Secretary of War position before Calhoun finally accepted the task.

When the girl insisted, the woman threw a dish of lentils into the ashes for her to pick up, guaranteeing her permission to attend the festival, and when the girl accomplished the task in less than an hour with the help of two, white doves sent by her mother from Heaven, the stepmother only redoubled the task and threw down even a greater quantity of lentils.

In the non-annexed remaining portion of Soviet-controlled East Germany, like in the rest of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, the major task of the ruling communist party was to channel Soviet orders down to both the administrative apparatus and the other bloc parties pretending that these were initiatives of its own.

The Mac OS was not particularly well suited to this task, and the bus often got bogged down at about 10 kbit / s.

After four years of successful macro-economic controls with curbing inflation as the primary task, an overheated Chinese economy cooled down to a " soft landing ".

However, Iturbide was given the task of putting down the growing insurrectionist movement southwest of Mexico City led by Vicente Guerrero.

This was no easy task and it took all the determination and skill of Feldmarschalleutnant Radetzky in coordinating a combined-arms operation to slow down the French onslaught, while the rest of Rosenberg's troops retreated.

Interior designer Lonni Paul was given the task of redesigning Thiessen's guest bedroom with an eco-friendly theme.

The guest operating system was incorporated as the lowest priority task and essentially acted as the idle task for the real-time system.

Most of the questions are answered in the loft, but one or two homeowners in each episode receive a visit from one of the show's three tradesmen ( or a guest tradesman if the project is not construction, plumbing / heating or landscaping related such as electrical or painting projects ), who assist in either starting or completing the task with the homeowners ' help.

Captain Katherine Janeway and Tuvok leave the ship as official guests of a nearby colony ; Neelix is assigned the task of escorting the colony's guest, Tomin, aboard the ship.

Jack Ging made two guest appearances as villains on The A-Team ( in the first season episode " A Small And Deadly War " and the second season's " Bad Time On The Border ") before being given the role of General Fullbright, one of the army leaders whose thankless task was to capture The A-Team.

In 2009 he made a guest appearance on Big Brother 10 as part of a task celebrating 10 years of Big Brother.

Should the cup of wine reach the guest before he could submit a suitable subsequent line he must consume that entire cup of wine and try again, and again, until the task was accomplished.

Slightly different than a Panel, a workshop is more like guided instruction through a major or specific task, typically instructed by an individual ( often a convention guest ).

Büttner, gave him a task: add a list of integers in arithmetic progression ; as the story is most often told, these were the numbers from 1 to 100.

His first task for Otto was to make a list of his Cambridge contemporaries who might respond to discreet contact.

That way, finding the highest priority task to run does not require iterating through the entire list.

Inserting a task then requires walking the ready list until reaching either the end of the list, or a task of lower priority than that of the task being inserted.

Other evidence comes from experimental studies showing that some manipulations ( e. g., a distractor task, such as repeatedly subtracting a single-digit number from a larger number following learning ; cf Brown-Peterson procedure ) impair memory for the 3 to 5 most recently learned words of a list ( it is presumed, still held in short-term memory ), while leaving recall for words from earlier in the list ( it is presumed, stored in long-term memory ) unaffected ; other manipulations ( e. g., semantic similarity of the words ) affect only memory for earlier list words, but do not affect memory for the last few words in a list.

In the end distractor task, the processing context of the final items is no longer similar to the processing context of the other list items.

Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city.

Once the opening is completed, O's task is to follow the above list of priorities in order to force the draw, or else to gain a win if X makes a weak play.

For example, when the task is to remember a list of 7 words in their order, we need to start recall with the first word.

In 1571 a special congregation was created, the Sacred Congregation of the Index, which had the specific task to investigate those writings that were denounced in Rome as being not exempt of errors, to update the list of Pope Pius IV regularly and also to make lists of required corrections in case a writing was not to be condemned absolutely but only in need of correction ; it was then listed with a mitigating clause ( e. g., donec corrigatur ( forbidden until corrected ) or donec expurgetur ( forbidden until purged )).

The king's Swiss Guard was given the task of killing a list of leading Protestants.

The iteration involves the redesign and implementation of a task from the project control list, and the analysis of the current version of the system.

The goal for the design and implementation of any iteration is to be simple, straightforward, and modular, supporting redesign at that stage or as a task added to the project control list.

The task force usually performs some sort of an audit to assess the current situation, then draws up a list of all the current problems present and evaluates which ones merit fixing and which ones are actually fixable.

* Timothy M. Bonds, Myron Hura, Thomas-Durrell Young, ' Enhancing Army Joint Force Headquarters Capabilities ,' Santa Monica, CA ; RAND Corporation, 2010-includes list of joint task forces

For example, projects can have bug tracking issues assigned to each project, the list of project customers becomes a customer relationship management module, and each person on the project plan has their own task lists, calendars, and messaging functionality associated with their projects.