Sentence examples for brief assignment from inspiring English sources

My one brief assignment in another country was for another publication — a three-week stint in Indonesia in 1998 when Suharto stepped down.

After a brief assignment with the Army Corps of Engineers, Mr. Blee was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor to the C.I.A.

His brief assignment to a Bronx parish last year set off protests from parishioners who threatened to boycott the collection plate and keep their children home until he was removed.

In 2004, after Colonel Shaffer returned from another brief assignment in Afghanistan, D.I.A. officials charged him with violating several agency rules, including claiming excessive expenses for a trip to Fort Dix, N.J.

I was too young to remember Vietnam the war, but I got to know Vietnam the country in 1993 on a 1,200-mile 1,200-mileh solo bicycle journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, and again as a reporter on a brief assignment in 1996.

INSIDE PITCH BOBBY JONES has a 2.73 earned run average in five starts since his brief assignment to Class AAA Norfolk.... BOBBY VALENTINE said he would try to slot RICK REED to make his next start on Monday in Toronto, and Reed is all for that.

Additionally, it could be an obstacle to landing work — even brief assignments or attractive volunteering opportunities — more fitting for a professional, Ms. Raiffa said.

Mr. Brown, 51, has never been deployed to a combat zone, though he completed brief assignments with the National Guard in Paraguay in 2005 and Kazakhstan in 2007.

Following a brief teaching assignment, he was recruited by the Arabia American Oil Company (Aramco) to work in the oil fields of Eastern Saudi Arabia, where he was stationed for two and a half years.

After a brief teaching assignment in a Berlin girls' school, Cantor joined the faculty at the University of Halle, where he remained for the rest of his life, first as lecturer (paid by fees only) in 1869, then assistant professor in 1872, and full professor in 1879.

He will need to make additional appearances before returning to the majors, likely in the form of a brief rehab assignment.