The phrase "assign status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are designating a particular state or condition to something, such as a task, project, or user.
Example: "Please assign status to the project so we can track its progress more effectively."
Alternatives: "set status" or "designate status".
To run into someone from work at a party or restaurant is to be suddenly forced to assign status to someone who may exist in your mind only as Guy Who Knows How to Replace the Xerox Machine's Toner.
We further assign status III to cubes that contain bcd mRNA and, thus, produce Bcd protein at a constant rate J (mol/s).
Altogether, we were able to reliably assign status with respect to kala-azar for 2,356 977%) of 2,439 persons, of whom 213 (9%) had kala-azar or a history of kala-azar, 58 with onset before 2000 and 155 with onset in 2000 or later.
A series of tree-graphs even playfully assigns status predating the moment of birth: "envisioned by my mother".
Like Jonathan Lebed, he was the kind of person high school is designed to suppress, and like Jonathan Lebed, he had refused to accept his assigned status.
They were little hand-held devices that served a purpose, were sophisticated (some, anyway. Sorry, Gears), and were capable of assigning status within a grade school.
Information structure focuses a listener's attention on one element of a message through the tonic foot, while Reference assigns status of contextual familiarity to each nominal structure (Martin, 1992) through grammatical markers such as definite and indefinite articles.
This lack of diagnostic anatomical and biometrical criteria lies at the root of assigning status to archaeozoological remains [5].
If all three databases agree the rat symbol is assigned status R1.
They are assigned status M1 if an identical rat gene symbol has already been found as described above, and status M2 otherwise.
Fed/fasted status was assigned based on either the known status or the assigned status from the mixture model within the LDR model for those with unknown fed/fasted status.
