Sentence examples for been given the assignment of from inspiring English sources

"Well, there's Eric Foner, of Columbia," said the vice-president for chancy loans, who had been given the assignment of proposing some historians for the job.

I had just been given the assignment of providing protection for the wife of the newly elected president of the United States, and I was about to meet her for the first time.

He had been given the assignment of looking into the cemetery's history in order to find out if there were any available plots.

Attending from the Pentagon was Walter Slocombe, who has been given the assignment to examine the growing problem of how to get under control the military forces that each of the main opposition leaders now controls in Iraq.

Olds, whose B-17s were deployed to Olmsted Field in Harrisburg, was given the assignment of locating the Rex as far at sea as possible, and assigned Major Vincent J. Meloy, the commanding officer of the 20th Bomb Squadron, to act as nominal head of the Black Force.

The next week, in school, in Dublin, I was given the assignment of writing about the person I most admired.

They must feel like the guys who were given the assignment of painting other areas at the Sistine Chapel.

He joined the staff of a Sioux City (Iowa) newspaper and, after sketching a courtroom scene, was given the assignment of drawing a daily cartoon.

As a reward, he asked for another active command and was given the assignment of pacifying the province of Pannonia on the Adriatic Sea.

After the last war, Heiden, then a student at Univ. of Munich, joined the Social Democrats and was given the assignment of worming his way into Nazi circles.

As a reward he asked for another active command and was given the assignment of pacifying the province of Pannonia on the Adriatic Sea.