Sentence examples for brief assignments from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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.

Colonel Ba and Colonel White managed to borrow men from the United States 1st Division and the ARVN 5th while they waited for the Revolutionary Development workers to arrive, but these men were unprepared for their brief assignment, and the tight guard that had been mounted over the "hostile civilians" until that day all but faded away.

During that break I would have offered a brief assignment -- write down your key questions or goals for the course in my absence -- and returned to a discussion.

Shoup began a brief assignment as Inspector General for Recruit Training in May 1956 after being ordered to do so by Commandant Randolph M. Pate following the Ribbon Creek incident, which involved the accidental drowning of six recruits during a training march.