Sentence examples for long assigned from inspiring English sources

The Iranian carpet, 13.5 meters, or 44 feet, long, assigned by Sotheby's to 17th-century Isfahan, showed nasty stains and was visibly worn.

The political tension stems from the alleged embezzlement of seized drug money by a veteran deputy, long assigned to asset forfeiture, which became publicly known in November 2013 and remains under federal investigation.

She teaches magazine writing at Columbia and has long assigned her students to read Janet Malcolm's "Journalist and the Murderer," a case study of a writer's betrayal of his subject, as seen through the Joe McGinniss book, "Fatal Vision".

The party knows from the top on down that corruption is a chronic and thorough affliction of the one-party state, and has long assigned many authorities to the task of curing it.

Two observers observed the recordings of nine workers, on the average 2.2 h long, assigning activities to four activity categories.

Slaves (and a smaller number of free blacks) cooked, cleaned, and worked in manufacturing — tasks similar to those they'd long been assigned in non-hospital settings.

Jon Meacham, the editor, long ago assigned at least one writer (doing double duty for print and the Web) to ride full-time on the Obama and Clinton planes — at a cost that can exceed $30,000 a month per person.

These later chapters of Isaiah had long been assigned to the Babylonian Exile, two hundred years later than the original Isaiah, and it had already been admitted that still later additions were possible.

Although the most junior of the London-based lawyers who will sit around the long table assigned for such meetings in the minister's office, she brings glamour that the Greek government could only have dreamed of when her firm, Doughty Chambers, first took up the case in 2011.

Nearly all of the 800 numbers with mnemonic value have long been assigned to individuals or corporations by phone companies.

For Jody Greenstone Miller, whose 75-person in-house staff includes people who've chosen to work 10, 20, 30 or 40 hours a week (for commensurate pay), knowing how long each assigned task takes is key.