(1) An offer of help from handyman service The_Multiman – "#riotcleanup if you have a shop or home that has been affected my handymen will volunteer in our spare time to help with any repairs!
(2) But there are also smaller changes, which cost the local authority little but can have a big impact in terms of how secure care leavers feel, such as a visit from a handyman when they move into their own home, to help them put up curtain poles and other such tasks – typically the role of a parent.
(3) In May an Israeli employment court awarded compensation to a former handyman in the prime minister’s home, accepting the worker’s claims of abusive terms of employment by Sara Netanyahu.
(4) His gift of writing supple, salty dialogue for working-class characters was similarly displayed in Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976-77), a series developed from his own single play and starring Bill Maynard as the inept handyman with the thumbs-up catchphrase "Magic!"
(5) Sidney Poitier blazed a trail in the 60s for Lilies of the Field , winning best actor for his role as a handyman helping a group of nuns build a chapel in the desert.
(6) He now works as a handyman for the council, and his wife, Omkeltoum, is expecting another child.
(7) Angel Figueroa, 46, a Guatemalan former handyman, boasted of knowing Los Angeles “like the palm of my hand” but feared he would never see it or his children again.
(8) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
(9) Services offered include housekeeping, transportation, yard care, and handyman services.
(10) On leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.
(11) Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences.
(12) Duque now works as a handyman and his wife assists him.
(13) My plan was to live in a bread delivery van that I’d converted and offer people handyman services in return for payment in kind.
(14) Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns.
(15) Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Task
Definition:
(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(3) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(10) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(11) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(12) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(13) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
(14) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(15) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(17) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
(18) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(19) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(20) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.