Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.

So, although Russia's political economy principally was agrarian and semi-feudal, the task of democratic revolution therefore fell to the urban, industrial working class, as the only social class capable of effecting land reform and democratization, in view that the Russian propertied classes would attempt to suppress any revolution, in town and country.

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.

Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.

The task of relieving them fell to churches and other charities, as well as to labor unions.

To the new pope fell the task of reorganizing the Roman church, which had fallen into great disorder.

" Indeed, Rav Ashi was the man destined to undertake a task similar to that which fell to the lot of Judah I.

* Travel writer Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ) gathered material, including an interview with Brooke's mother, for an eventual biography of Brooke, but completion of the task fell to Arthur Springer whose Red Wine of Youth — A Life of Rupert Brooke, benefitting from Halliburton's researches, appeared in 1952.

The historian Previte-Orton describes Justin as " a rigid man, dazzled by his predecessor's glories, to whom fell the task of guiding an exhausted, ill-defended Empire through a crisis of the first magnitude and a new movement of peoples ".

Medea, daughter of Aeëtes, fell in love with Jason, and being endowed with magical powers, aided him in his completion of the difficult task.

The difficult task of stealing this sacred statue again fell upon the shoulders of Odysseus and Diomedes.

The task of establishing the location and atmosphere at Starfleet Headquarters fell to the matte department, who had to make it feel like a bustling futuristic version of San Francisco.

These machines ran some form of DOS ( Disk Operating System ) and their BIOS provided very poor support for serial communications — so poor that it fell far short of the needs of any non-trivial communications task.

After Godfrey's retirement, the task of sustaining the orchestra fell to Richard Austin.

The orchestra was originally conceived as a joint enterprise by the BBC and the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, but the latter withdrew, and the task of assembling and training the orchestra fell to the BBC's director of music, Adrian Boult.

With the 6th Airborne Division still refitting after Operation Tonga, the task of securing the Rhine Bridgehead fell to the 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Roy Urquhart.

He was assigned the task of conquering Laotian kingdoms in 1778 and all the three kingdoms ( Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Champasak ) fell to the Siamese in the same year.

Because many Hitler Youth leaders were drafted into the military, the task of organizing the boys into Hitler Youth also fell heavily on the League.

The task fell to two main departments.

According to prominent Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

The task of taking Aachen fell to General Charles H. Corlett's XIX Corps ' 30th Infantry Division and Joseph Collins ' VII Corps ' 1st Infantry Division.

The task fell to the 26th Infantry Regiment, which had only two of its three battalions on hand.

The task of laying out the townships fell to Timothy Street and Abraham Nelles.

Problems, particularly with the locks, meant that some parts of the canal had to be redesigned-a task that fell to Thomas Telford in 1816.

The task of providing all this beef went to a Scotsman living in Canada named John Lawson Johnston.

In this passage, St John of Sinai says that the primary task of the Hesychast is to engage in mental ascesis.

In 2006 Kemp, along with 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, producing a document called " Russia ’ s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do ".

The crime task force was deemed the largest since the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

John Russell Young died in January 1899, and “ President William McKinley found himself faced with the responsibility of appointing a Librarian of Congress who should preside over the affairs of the institution whose building had been completed but years ago .” President McKinley requested Herbert Putnam to be appointed to the task, and Putnam was officially confirmed to the duties of Librarian of Congress on December 12, 1899.

During his later years, Telford was responsible for rebuilding sections of the London to Holyhead road, a task completed by his assistant of ten years, John MacNeill ; today, much of the route is the A5 trunk road.

John Henry Parker, appointed the first keeper in 1870, inherited the disagreeable task of trying manage through the dismantling.

In 1492, John II dispatched Vasco da Gama on a mission to the port of Setúbal and to the Algarve to seize French ships in retaliation for peacetime depredations against Portuguese shipping-a task that da Gama rapidly and effectively performed.

John Bowring, a British politician who had been Bentham's trusted friend, was appointed his literary executor and charged with the task of preparing a collected edition of his works.

Herzig-Yoshinaga and her husband, John " Jack " Herzig, pored over mountains of documents from the War Relocation Authority, a task that " was roughly equivalent to indexing all the information in a library, working from a card catalog that only gave a subject description by shelf, without giving individual book titles or authors.

Whilst there his task is a simple assignment to investigate the disappearance of Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary.

In 1664, Sir John Cutler settled an annual gratuity of fifty pounds on the Society for the founding of a Mechanick Lecture, and the Fellows appointed Hooke to this task.

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

Caul, his colleague Stan ( John Cazale ) and some freelance associates have taken on the task of bugging the conversation of a couple ( Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest ) as they walk through crowded Union Square in San Francisco, surrounded by a cacophony of background noise.

The film also touches on black-on-black racism when John is taken to task by his father and the household maid Tillie ( Isabel Sanford ) for his perceived presumption.

In 1949, John Davis was appointed and charged with the task of turning around the Rank Organisation ’ s fortunes.

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, which rebooted the history of the DC Universe and retro-actively eliminated the existence of the Golden and Silver Age versions of Krypton, writer / artist John Byrne was given the task of recreating the entire Superman mythos.

In the days following the shootings, Texas Governor John Connally commissioned a task force of professionals to examine the facts surrounding Whitman's actions and possible motives.

Hearkening back to the example of the people of St. John Lutheran, the people gathered the bricks, and worked together to accomplish the arduous task of cleaning the mortar from each individual brick.

Shelby County Councilwoman Tami Grubbs administered the oath of office to board members Rick Daily, John Hanson and Jeremy Creech, along with Clerk-Treasurer Chris Brinson, who immediately set about the task of organization, which included electing board officials.

The task force includes Pennsylvania Senator John Gordner and Rep Russ Fairchild, community leaders with a wide range of economic development experience and skills including an accountant, lawyer, land developer, engineer, surveyor, and two bankers – along with chairmen of the Snyder County Board of Commissioners, Penn Township Board of Supervisors, and Township Municipal Authority.

Since nearly half a century lies between Wulfstan's death ( 1095 ) and John's final entry ( 1140 ), historian Simon Keynes has offered the tentative suggestion that Florence may have been the monk first commissioned by Wulfstan to compile material for a world chronicle and that John continued the task.

At any rate, Wotton, who had intended to write the life of John Donne, and had already corresponded with Walton on the subject, left the task to him.

In December 1980 Nightingale faced the daunting task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of John Lennon ( who had himself appeared on the show in 1975 ).