Police officers are often assigned to schools in urban districts plagued by violent crime.
They are often assigned to work in areas far from their homes.
In Japan, most streets do not have names, and house numbers are often assigned by order of registration, not location.
As of this summer, 3,040 of the 19,081 parishes in the United States lacked resident pastors, and priests are often assigned to several parishes at once.
As such, they are often assigned to open roads and highways where their top speed of 150 miles an hour is most useful.
Others are not always afforded the luxury of choice: babies born with ambiguous genitalia are often assigned a sex at birth and undergo "correctional surgery".
Administrators are often assigned by governments, creditors or courts to replace management at troubled institutions, with a goal to restoring their finances.
Its consequences are magnified by the government's advantage over the inexperienced and inept defense lawyers who are often assigned to in- digent defendants.
But to be fair to the NYPD, recruits who are native speakers of languages such as Arabic, Pushtu and Bengali are often assigned to counter-terrorism duties.
This is exactly the problem: The least experienced guards are often assigned to look after the most challenging population of inmates, many of whom should probably have never been placed in a jail setting at all.
One police commander, saying that Manhattan South Homicide detectives are often assigned to high-profile investigations that do not involve murders, said special treatment was often doled out to those with clout in police or political circles.
