It was always going to be a major assignment for Andy Murray to back up in the mixed doubles final with Laura Robson against two of the best in the discipline, Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi, after his singles triumph less than an hour earlier.
This was a major assignment that led to the number of agents in the Bureau being increased from 3,559 in 1946 to 7,029 in 1952.
Since this middle-aged agent is no less a personage than Kimball O'Hara, the model for Kipling's Kim, their secret assignment is a major challenge for the couple, who, having brushed up their Hindi and honed their juggling skills on the long sea voyage from Dover to Bombay, are able to slip into the vivid disguise of itinerant magicians for their trek north over the Grand Trunk Road.
We were not able to keep the research assistants blinded to group assignment, which is a major limitation of the study.
Despite his short tenure at City Hall, Mr. Cavanagh was able to complete a major assignment from Mr. Beame: organizing the city's Off-Track Betting Corporation, a venture intended at the time to raise revenue and prop up city finances.
You can explain briefly that a "major assignment" is due soon and you have to keep working on it during the visit, and that this was the only way you could manage it without disturbing others (or being disturbed).
Around the same time, Stackpole was commissioned to sculpt architectural features for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a major assignment that was to take two years to complete, even with the aid of assistants.
In one case, right in the middle of the crisis, we pulled out of a major assignment that was inconsistent with our principle.
His fluency in French was a major factor in the assignment, as anti-colonial violence in Algeria deepened.
Commercial exploitation, mariculture and introduction of invasive species have been a major problem in the assignment of Porphyra geographic origins.
