I was seconded to a new post which lacked clarity and effective management oversight.
Dibdin's cop, though Venetian by birth, operated nationally rather than locally, seconded to a different Italian region in each book.
During the project, she was seconded to a nursery for 18 weeks where she worked with a toddler who was learning English a second language.
"Or listen to the story of Angeles Walford, a head-teacher seconded to a failing school, who said recently: 'I excluded a boy who hit a teacher but was forced to give him a second chance.
Ministers are perfectly capable of scrutinising critically the prince's views; and their policies are hardly likely to be altered by junior officials seconded to a government department from the prince's office.
Street-smart Detroit detective Axel Foley is seconded to a picturesque seaside resort in Martha's Vineyard where it quickly becomes clear he is not the only fish out of water.
One of the greatest moral achievements of human history — the full emancipation of women — should not be seconded to a metaphysical intuition, one with no scientific support or even coherent meaning: that a fertilized egg makes the same moral claims as an entire person.
One of the greatest moral achievements of human history the full emancipation of women should not be seconded to a metaphysical intuition, one with no scientific support or even coherent meaning: that a fertilized egg makes the same moral claims as an entire person.
