Sentence examples for trying to assign from inspiring English sources

"We've been trying to assign fiction," he said, "to make it topical, relevant.

That put the team in the strange position of trying to assign a negative statistic to one of its players.

"It's very tragic, and trying to assign blame isn't really something that we should be focusing on," the mayor said.

Instead of trying to assign blame, why not seek to heal the war's lingering wounds, both on a national level and in private?

Giedd suggests a thought experiment: Imagine trying to assign a population of students to the boys' and girls' locker rooms based solely on height.

It's a wise idea to start writing down answers that you know off the bat without first trying to assign them to a spot on the grid.

I tried to assign a motive to each bathroom reader.

The study did not try to assign causes.

When this project failed to work out they tried to assign him to a Margaret O'Brien script.

But employees balked when Mr. Nasser tried to assign grades to them according to performance.

Given this thesis, Vertosick tries to assign a Darwinian rationale to each type of human pain.