The phrase "assigned a place" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to be given a specific spot or location for something or someone. Example: The teacher assigned a place for each student to sit in the classroom.
In 1781 the Chitimacha were assigned a place near present-day Plaquemine for settlement.
The mistake Marmot, in his seriousness, and de Botton, in his superficiality, both make is positing a single social order in which we are all assigned a place and of which a vast majority of us are victims.
Another page, about his educational theories, says: "Children should not to be the center of social attention but need to be assigned a place of limited importance within the adult group.
The hierarchy differed from the Hindu system in that the Kshatriyas were assigned a place of prominence over the Brahmans and in its connection of purity, at least theoretically, with a moral rather than a ritual source.
If you have been assigned a place but do not intend to take the course, please let the staff know ASAP so that another student can take the course.
According to the Frankfurt prosecutors in charge of the investigation, the 28-year-old, whose name wasn't revealed in accordance with local customs, lived an incredible double life: He registered as a Syrian refugee under a false name at the end of 2015 and subsequently claimed asylum in Bavaria, where he was assigned a place in a refugee shelter and even received benefits.
I don't just mean pictures of close friends' children, which I feel obligated to admire for a while, and perhaps assign a place on my refrigerator: I mean the picture of my lawyer's homely daughters, and the lumpy baby of a neighbor I barely remember, and the family portrait from the college classmate I am in touch with at most once a year.
Adler assigned a prominent place to family dynamics in personality development.
Although their doctrines and ceremonies, known as the Divine Faith (Dīn-e Ilāhī), assigned a central place to Akbar himself, it would be an oversimplification to ascribe political motives to those developments.
Many scholars would agree that, though it is easy to make a long list of many kinds of sacrifice, it is difficult, if not impossible, to find a satisfactory system in which all forms of sacrifice may be assigned a suitable place.
Stahl assigned a great place to what he called tonic motion ("motus tonicus"), a contractive and relaxative movement of body parts or tissues that played a key role in metabolism although, as always, he saw anima as the agent that directed the motion.
