Sentence examples for a major assignment to from inspiring English sources

Forty years ago this week, he received a major assignment: to use his maps to double-check the work of construction crews building a massive wall that Communist officials said would protect East Berlin, but would in fact block people from fleeing to the West.

Now Mr. van Zweden has taken the idea and run with it, handing a major assignment to Mr. Tao, a 19-year-old pianist, violinist, composer and budding impresario who is studying at the Juilliard School and Columbia, from whom Mr. van Zweden also commissioned a work for the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 2012.

And that has sold Heineken executives on giving the agency creating the campaign, the New York office of Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide, an additional major assignment: to develop and produce Heineken brand advertising that is to run around the world.

And that has sold Heineken executives on giving the agency creating the campaign an additional major assignment: to develop and produce Heineken brand advertising that is to run around the world.

It was always going to be a major assignment for Andy Murray to back up in the mixed doubles final with Laura Robson against two of the best in the discipline, Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi, after his singles triumph less than an hour earlier.

Around the same time, Stackpole was commissioned to sculpt architectural features for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a major assignment that was to take two years to complete, even with the aid of assistants.

This was a major assignment that led to the number of agents in the Bureau being increased from 3,559 in 1946 to 7,029 in 1952.

And Artustry "just beat out" two large agencies for "a major assignment," Mr. Sklaver said, to help create an identity and image for a new company being formed from PricewaterhouseCoopers to be named Unifi Network.

Despite his short tenure at City Hall, Mr. Cavanagh was able to complete a major assignment from Mr. Beame: organizing the city's Off-Track Betting Corporation, a venture intended at the time to raise revenue and prop up city finances.

I failed a class when I couldn't figure out how to complete a major assignment, because it involved doing basic fieldwork at an elementary school of my choice.

You can explain briefly that a "major assignment" is due soon and you have to keep working on it during the visit, and that this was the only way you could manage it without disturbing others (or being disturbed).