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- verb Present participle of
assign .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
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Examples
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Jonas has no interest in assigning blame or even judging his father, despicable as the man was, a paranoid brute whom Jonas and his mother hoped to escape in the way you'd want to escape a bad storm.
Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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Jonas has no interest in assigning blame or even judging his father, despicable as the man was, a paranoid brute whom Jonas and his mother hoped to escape in the way you'd want to escape a bad storm.
Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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SPSID = 3065&SPID = 212&DB_OEM_ID = 400 Did that influence KSU officials in assigning him to another dorm rather than excluding him from KSU housing immediately.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime? 2010
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But I also recognize the danger in assigning a naturalism to it.
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Math majors still have trouble setting up word problems, MBAs cannot specify all the basic components for a specific production activity, and Economists have difficulty in assigning weight to various elements of the economic matrix. lgl
Barbell Labor Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Globe & Mail's Christie Blatchford jumps to the defence of 69-year-old male Justice Douglas Cunningham, who found it necessary, in assigning little weight to the testimony of Nepean-Carleton Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod, to refer to her personal life: "She was commuting regularly to Toronto for her work, leaving her husband and child in Ottawa." [emphasis added]
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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But not to worry; Republicans are experts in assigning blame for their created messes to Democrats.
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Because of demonstrable problems in assigning appropriate risk weights, Basel III also resurrects, as a kind of backstop, the old-fashioned leverage ratio: Tier 1 capital divided by total assets, with no risk weighting.
Two Cheers for the New Bank Capital Standards Alan S. Blinder 2010
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I am not interested in assigning blame but would like there to be some sort of effort to curtail this kind of behavior.
Portland gangster hit in broad daylight (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I agree that one should excersise caution in assigning motives to any criminal activity before all the facts are in but could you help me understand this post: jmunny says:
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010
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