11.   Next year, the Bears appear to have an easier task, especially in the nonconference games.

12.   Of course, those leading us toward a colorblind society will have a much easier task if most of those within their field of vision are the same color.

13.   On this score, Gore has the easier task because his programs cost less.

14.   Other lupus patients have realigned their workload, squirreling away easier tasks for days when their symptoms intensify.

15.   Slowing down a runaway train might be an easier task than slowing down Reba McEntire, who always seems to have a thousand projects waiting for her.

16.   The Marshall Plan was successful largely because it helped industrialized nations rebuild, a far easier task than helping developing societies make the leap into modernity.

17.   Throughout the novel, he remains partly sympathetic and mildly unknowable, when it would have been an easier task to make him unsympathetic and revealed.

18.   Perhaps singing at the Arena might have been an easier task in Roman times.

19.   Petronas will have to beat Kia Motors Thursday to reach the last four while Japan have an easier task against Punjab.

20.   Bayern, Germany titlist for the third season in a row, must play Spartak Moscow, Feyenoord and Sparta Prague but that looks a much easier task.