Sentence examples for accepts an assignment from inspiring English sources

When she accepts an assignment, Mrs. al-Nahi said, she finds herself relying heavily on serendipity.

Lulu Sawyer, a spy working for the C.I.A., accepts an assignment in Marrakech, ostensibly to gather dirt on terrorist networks, but also to reunite with an old flame.

In "Contempt" (1963), a screenwriter accepts an assignment he despises in order to pay for luxuries that he thinks his beautiful young wife, played by Brigitte Bardot, expects.

In 1938, betrothed to a giggly middle-class woman (STEFANIA SANDRELLI), he accepts an assignment from Mussolini's secret police that involves the assassination of his former mentor, a philosopher living in exile in Paris.

Daniel Quinn, once a promising poet, now writes crime novels under a pseudonym; he receives a phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster, and accepts an assignment to shadow Paul Stillman, a bookish lunatic.

Mr. Stern's other novels include "Stitch" (1965), drawn from his experience as a Fulbright scholar in Europe and his acquaintanceship with the poet Ezra Pound, on whom the main character was based; and "Natural Shocks" (1978), which concerns a worldly journalist who accepts an assignment to write about death and becomes attached to a young woman dying of cancer.

For "1999," though, he accepted an assignment from Donna, a fashion magazine in Milan.

(Mr. Close did accept an assignment to photograph President Clinton in 1996).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS--Announced INF-OF Raul Ibanez has accepted an assignment to Omaha of the PCL.

This year I accepted an assignment to research the story behind my box, and everything changed.

CINCINNATI REDS -- Announced OF Brooks Kieschnick cleared waivers and accepted an assignment to Louisville of the International League.