Sentence examples for assigned herself from inspiring English sources

Not only has she ventured to a distant time and place; she's also assigned herself the task of rendering life under a ruthless dictatorship.

In BROKEN SPEARS: A Maasai Journey (Atlantic Monthly, $50), Gilbert displays, in dramatic black-and-white photographs and in an accompanying text that is nearly as beguiling as her pictures, the results of the four-year mission she assigned herself in 1998: to document, before it is too late, the rituals that shape the lives of the Masai.

Hedlund has assigned herself other challenges, including frugal grocery shopping and buying (almost) nothing at all for an entire month.

"She self-assigned herself to lots of different news events.

She assigns herself extra homework.

It is Angustias who assigns herself the task of breaking her niece's will and "molding" her into obedience.

("The task," she assigns herself, "is to be as good as D[ostoevsky] — as serious spiritually, + then go on from there").

PEOPLE here in rural Derbyshire address Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire, 83, as "your grace," but she assigns herself less exalted status.

Since joining the company in New York five years ago, Ms. Swarovski has been its most ebullient cheerleader, assigning herself the task of drastically expanding its fashion profile, while at the same time raising her own.

Don't read on if you haven't seen episode two Dan Martin's series three, episode one blog The one where … the gang meet an orphaned teenage vampire; Annie assigns herself as Mitchell's guardian angel but clearly wants more; we discover a novel way for vamps to quench their bloodlust.

Her backing quintet had a drummer, Neal Morgan, but almost for color alone; he had far less rhythmic work to do than what she'd assigned to herself.