Sentence examples similar to a prized assignment from inspiring English sources

While working in Hollywood, a series of breaks led him from a job as an assistant choreographer setting dances for Doris Day to a prized Broadway assignment choreographing the 1953 "Wonderful Town" with Rosalind Russell (for which he won the first of two Tonys, the second for "No, No, Nanette").

Anger within the ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency apparently has flared over a decision by Director John M. Deutch to give a prized overseas assignment to a senior official touched by the Aldrich H. Ames spy scandal, agency sources said Monday.

Last December, Ignacio Zamora Jr., a supervisor in charge of the president's detail the most prized assignment in the professional security world was discovered trying to force his way into a woman's hotel room, supposedly in hopes of retrieving a stray bullet he had left behind during some kind of liason that, I guess, involved him getting his gun (among other things) out.

Turlington, Campbell, and Evangelista were regularly booked as a trio for some of the most prized assignments and were soon known in their own right as "the holy trinity".

Physical fitness was clearly a prized trait.

The winner gains a prized strategic crossroads.

Independents are a prized bloc.

Gut feeling is not a prized consideration.

For years it remained a prized possession.

It is a prized trout fishery.

It is especially galling if it involves a prized asset.