Sentence examples for assigns us from inspiring English sources

The Russian president genuinely believes that the US is attempting to destabilise Russia, he says: "Putin assigns us all kinds of agency in Russia and across the world that we simply don't have".

Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: we're producers (of one thing) at work, consumers of a great many other things the rest of the time, and then once a year or so we vote as citizens.

Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger could have been speaking for Africa when he said during a 2006 debate in New York: "If we journalists are ever to reclaim the honour of our craft, we need to understand, at least, the historic task that great power [of being a journalist] assigns us.

The symbolic here is a public system of meaning and language, what, for Lacan, allows us to become subjects; for it assigns us our social positionality and tells us what is proper for male and female bodies.

Trans* people have exposed the truth regarding this fabrication we call "gender" as a social construction, one which our society ascribes to each of us as it assigns us a sex at birth.

The boss assigns us a number to keep track of our progress.

Manning has instead been assigned US military counsel.

He began assigning us additional reading, and eventually recommended us for the honors science track.

"They make us stay until we finish all the work they assigned us".

The assistant directors attempt to shoo them away and begin assigning us acting instructions.

"He might as well have assigned us a challenging home-repair project".