Sentence examples for sought to assign from inspiring English sources
Where choice of assignment seemed inconclusive, the investigators sought to assign volunteers to equalize the numbers receiving morning, mid-day, and evening treatment.
In a $7.8 billion settlement last year with the plaintiffs' steering committee, it sought to assign claims to the two other companies.
White House aides also sought to assign some responsibility for the pressures that propelled the prosecution forward to the news media, especially The New York Times, and to members of Congress.
Men in buoyant insulated jumpsuits laid barriers over the boulders and sand along the Coney Island peninsula yesterday as federal investigators sought to assign responsibility for an oil spill in New York Bay.
More recently, Belgium has sought to assign values to the Wilson and Jungner criteria, 14 in order to weigh conditions against each other (see Box 1).
To facilitate the synthesis of data across studies, we sought to assign the most representative probeset to each gene using a method implemented in JetSet [ 34].
It was the first of several trials seeking to assign blame for what remains Europe's largest corporate bankruptcy.
Another, by Mike Tollin (whose "Chasing the Dream" was an Oscar nominee), seeks to assign blame for the demise of the United States Football League, which hired the firm he co-owned as its video-production company.
It is in those areas that the West can certainly begin a dialogue with China that includes political reform and human rights, and builds a common language for such discussions that does not seek to assign blame to either side.
One such instrument is Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD, a program that seeks to assign a financial value to standing forests and to pay local communities, via the sale of carbon credits, for their contribution to the world's ecological well-being.
Mr. Klein and Mr. Sharpton's statement argued that federal policy should continue to hold schools accountable for raising the achievement of poor African-American and Latino youths, which is a focus of the federal law, but should also seek to assign more effective teachers to the nation's neediest classrooms.
