“Herzog asked President Portes Gil to assign him to the post of ambassador in the USSR so that he would be able to experience the Russian Revolution firsthand.”

“Once the recipient receives your e-mail, he or she can accept the task, decline the task, or assign the task to someone else.”

“Mr. Current told us he was formerly in charge of the storage and warehousing facilities and it was his job to assign food to warehouses.”

“This story never appears in our church's assigned cycle of Sunday readings.”

“This was the author's, or whosever to whom authors assigned their intellectual property.”

“In one study, ethnic minority patients were treated with less analgesia and assigned lower pain ratings than Caucasian patients.”

“So the industry set out to impress its shareholders by assigning itself goals.”

“He divides them into six genera, assigning to each genus its subordinate species, according to the different modes of fructification.”

“And as anyone who has ever been in a bad relationship knows, assigning emotional motivations to others is usually a fool's errand.”