Sentence examples for assigned ourselves from inspiring English sources

And while our parents gave us values, we inadvertently assigned ourselves the roles we play.

And when my old grad school buddy Jim and I left our cars last summer in Brookings, Ore., the last coastal town before the California border, took a bus north with our bikes and gear to Coos Bay, and set out to cycle back, we found we had assigned ourselves one of the most spectacular missions imaginable.

If you strip away all the religious dogma, politics, money, society, and cultural boxes that we've assigned ourselves to, there is nothing but nature left.

Marika Gerrard: At that time, we were working with KCOP and KNX news radio, so we had our own assignment desk and we were pretty much able to assign ourselves whatever we wanted to cover.

Replicating human self-awareness means replicating the rather sophisticated types of "goal-oriented behavior" that define us: as humans, we assign ourselves goals, consider steps to attain those goals and actively evaluate our progress, as well as the factors hindering or facilitating that progress.

Here, assigning ourselves self-blame and humbly acknowledging our mutual hypocrisy would assuredly be polite and may even be amusing.

Even when we are assigning ourselves a new task, we take the same approach, expecting way too much too soon.

It is absurd to think that one can save him with these weak arguments, but they are of a kind with the rituals we assign ourselves for disposing of the dead.

"We all choose a role which we assign to ourselves," the self-appointed Enrico says.

But there are distinct details of the writer's room, too, ones we can never assign to ourselves: the fat fountain pen on Freud's desk — now an anachronism, as well as a cliché.

Being human, we're often reluctant to assign it to ourselves — and when it comes to missing possessions it is always possible (and occasionally true) that someone else caused them to disappear.