Sentence examples for been assigned him from inspiring English sources

Baldwin had agreed to write a piece about Africa for William Shawn, who was then the editor of The New Yorker; instead, he gave Shawn the essay that came to be known as "The Fire Next Time," which had originally been assigned him by Norman Podhoretz, of Commentary.

One man in a corduroy blazer said the Board of Elections was assigning him to the wrong polling site; Mr. McManus said he would take care of it.

His offices are well guarded by men who have apparently been assigned to him by Hezbollah.

In fact, she was the detective who had been assigned to him since his arrival.

"If you hear that your case has been assigned to him, you say that's great".

Once, his strength failed on a march, and his Chinese guide, who had only recently been assigned to him, was surprised at his collapse.

Instead, Ortiz, who is a model of consistency, benefits some from the clutch label that has been assigned to him.

Another legislator was said to have complained about the filthy state of a company van that had been assigned to him.

He had been transported to this house, in a provincial city north of Tokyo, and she had been assigned to him as his "support liaison".

Poor attention to what had originally been assigned got him a mediocre mark for doing a great job on the wrong project.

The day revolves around four separate sessions of meditation, during which Mr. Trippetti chanted over and over a sentence of 24 words that had been assigned to him.