Sentence examples for holiday assignments from inspiring English sources

Less than two weeks before the end of the current session of the Diet on July 31st, Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, handed seven of his cabinet ministers tough holiday assignments.

The ADA got a lot wrong, even for a rookie on his first holiday assignment.

M orders Bond to take a new gun and sends him on a holiday assignment, which Bond resents.

We got our holiday assignment in mid-September, giving the class a little over three months to learn an abridged version of the four-minute track.

On Tuesday, nine hours before she pressed the crystal button initiating the ball-drop in Times Square, Sonia Sotomayor gave Mr Verrilli a holiday-week assignment: by Friday the government had to respond to a Catholic charity's objections to the Obamacare provision requiring employers to cover birth control in their health plans.

I was off in London on assignment for Holiday magazine, where I worked — I hated being away for this notable birthday — but within a few minutes the phone in our kitchen would ring with my surprise call, and Evelyn would let me know what I'd just missed.

The second high point also involved a trip to Moscow where Erwitt was on assignment for Holiday magazine when the first Sputnik was launched; his photographs of a lecture at Moscow's planetarium appeared on the cover of the New York Times magazine.

Tell him what you're doing, ask about his plans for an upcoming event (like a dance, homework assignment or holiday), or bring up an inside joke.

The school board will vote this summer on a proposal to limit weeknight homework to 10 minutes for each year of school — 20 minutes for second graders, and so forth — and ban assignments on weekends, holidays and school vacations.

Here was his assignment: use his holiday to set up the paper.

Mr. Glinn also took on in-depth assignments from magazines, particularly Holiday, which devoted several complete issues to his work.