From the beginning, in any case, the Council understood itself as having a twofold task - the "affirmation of doctrine" against the new heresies and the "reform of morals" against long-standing disciplinary abuses.

A cheersman therefore has a twofold task, he must be both a bully and a bon vivant.

The plot's twofold task was to organize sympathetic human rights activists to pressure the United Nations and generate negative press for the Pinochet regime.

The Regia Marina had the twofold task of protecting the invasion convoys from attacks by Britain's Mediterranean Fleet and providing off-shore gunfire support during the landings.

Mr. Craxi is facing a twofold task: reform of Socialist Party policy and the role of the Socialists within government.

Scholastic Lutheran theologians engaged in a twofold task.

They are no longer the object of concern for the twofold political task of recommodification of labour and limitation of working-class militancy.

Superficially, CAB workers have a twofold task: they interview clients and they supply them with information and advice.

Hayashi's twofold task was to both explain the terms to a sceptical Emperor and gain the sovereign's assent to it.

We have a twofold task, therefore: ensuring that Armenia's gas supply is restored, and that Medzamor is shut down.