"taking up the assignment" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of beginning or starting a task or project that has been assigned to someone. This can be in a professional or academic setting. Example: After carefully reviewing the instructions, the team wasted no time in taking up the assignment and began working on it immediately.
Ahtisaari said: "Kofi was forced to take up the assignment as special representative.
In 2006, Krishen took up the assignment to convert 70 hectares of the rocky land around the fort into a nature park.
As I felt I could not just leave the laboratory behind and interrupt my teaching in Kortrijk (at the KULAK), I declined the invitation but, instead, convinced J. Balzaini to take up this assignment and from the first December 1985 he went over for a year to work in Sam Broder's laboratory on the anti-HIV activity of new nucleoside analogues.
The fact that Steyer ― who will likely run for president himself in 2020 ― took up this assignment, if you want to call it that, points to his strange standing in the party.
There is hardly any profession other than diplomacy that can fully prepare one for such a post, and one gets almost no training before taking up an assignment -- the two-week ambassador class at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington barely scratches the surface of what an ambassador is expected to do.
From April 2012, Ms. Karin Hulshof will be taking up her assignment as the UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia based in Kathmandu.
He joined the refounded France-Soir after the war and was its London correspondent before taking up his assignment in Washington.
John Adams takes up the position this season, and Mr. Harth gave him a plum assignment -- to program the first weekend at Zankel Hall.
Before taking up his new assignment, which amounts to a demotion, the ambassador will take a vacation and will return temporarily to his post in Moscow.
Reflecting the fact that Do Something isn't simply about taking up every hobby, assignment or project suggested here, as one reader said, "How do you choose?
Barbara began her career as a consultant at Mc Kinsey & Company, Inc. taking up major assignments for global clients.
