Sentence examples for has assigned himself from inspiring English sources

Schama has assigned himself a mission impossible.

And so he has assigned himself the mission of changing that.

That, according to long and troubling articles in both the Times and Newsweek, is a job Barack Obama has assigned himself.

Then, as if to measure the magnitude of the job he has assigned himself, he said: "We're not in the business of making iPads.

The neutrino's task is not unlike the one that Dr. Greene (who teaches at Columbia University) has assigned himself: explaining the weirdest, most arcane principles of cutting-edge physics to lay readers.

General Martins has assigned himself to lead the latest attempt to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed — the architect of the terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people — and four other detainees who are scheduled on Saturday to be arraigned on war crimes charges at the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Wang had assigned himself a mission: he would attend at least one mixer a weekend until he found someone.

Hughes took menial jobs whilst writing in his spare time, and claimed to have assigned himself the task of dashing off 100 jokes every day.

The recent works suggest that within the comparatively circumscribed territory Mr. Dunham has assigned to himself he continues to find ever more fruitful avenues to explore.

In general, he has assigned such opinions to himself about 10 percent of the time.

"Sometimes he has assigned the opinions to himself, but more important are the cases in which he gave up the privilege of writing the opinion in landmark cases in order to secure a shaky majority".