The problem is that some of the music seems like a music-school assignment, feels fraught with pride.
And Mr. McClendon doesn't mind saying this was one very fraught assignment.
Carmelo Anthony would carry the greatest burden, to be sure, but no one accepted a more fraught assignment than Raymond Felton, the new starting point guard, whose responsibility extended far beyond running the offense.
Does he wish Sept. 11 were only a mirage and he could be trotting the globe on more typical, and less fraught, assignments like the Toyota Museum of Art, the Millennium Park at the Sydney Olympics or, a personal favorite, the water fountain set among 60 stones at his alma mater, Harvard?
As for Mr. Pomerantz, he said his colleagues have kidded him about serving as receiver, asking what possessed him to take an assignment that was so fraught with anxiety, time pressure and "people who are really angry," as he put it.
But determining which scientific and technological inventions merited distinction as the greatest breakthroughs of the last century proved as formidable and fraught an assignment as, say, choosing the greatest baseball players of the last hundred years.
Nowadays high-resolution infrared spectra can be recorded quite easily and therefore it has become important to assist the rovibrational analysis, especially the assignment step, that is still fraught with many problems in the presence of perturbation effects.
On enemy terrain a seemingly simple assignment — face time with local merchants — is fraught with mortal risk and the spirit-grinding frustration of cultural divide.
Mr. Dobbins, 70, a former assistant secretary of state for European affairs with a history of difficult assignments from Kosovo to Somalia, will confront a fraught relationship between Washington and Islamabad, as well as a rapidly dwindling American military presence in Afghanistan.
The assignment in Syria, which Mr. Shadid arranged through a network of smugglers, was fraught with dangers, not the least of which was discovery by the pro-government authorities in Syria.
