Sentences with phrase «on an assignment in»

It is easy to measure the contribution of brake pad manufacturing to gross domestic product; it is harder to determine the value created by a team of Stantec Inc. architects and engineers on assignment in the Caribbean.

Matt Cuddy is the CNBC Washington Bureau News Director on assignment in China with «Squawk Box» host Carl Quintanilla — covering the U.S. and Chinese economic talks.

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

Reporter Jon Woodward explains what happened when he witnessed a possible overdose while on assignment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

He snapped it at the First Southern Baptist Church while on assignment in Hurricane, Utah.

There is no time to waste, said Mr. Martin, who has been on assignment in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

That was the Bible story that Finkelstein, still a graduate student, found himself revisiting in the 1970s on assignment in the highlands, a mountainous ridge running almost the length of Israel.

Recently, a client asked me to take on an assignment in a hot field where life science meets another technology.

Kim Budil, a Lab employee on assignment in Washington D.C. to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has received a rarely bestowed honor, the NNSA Administrator's Award for Excellence Medal, for distinguished service in the national security interests of the United States.

While on assignment in Iraq, Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury and nearly lost his life.

However, before he went on an assignment in Washington DC, we needed to find him some business attire since it would be a desk job.

I am Canadian, work in international development currently on assignment in London, Philippines, Lebanon.

Robert Duvall is a mob assassin who falls in love with the tango while on an assignment in Buenos Aires to kill a wealthy general.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

About halfway through «Atomic Blonde,» Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), a lethal MI6 superwoman on assignment in Cold War - era Berlin, goes to see Andrei Tarkovsky's «Stalker.»

He becomes one of the best assassins they've ever seen, but gets into big trouble on an assignment in Beirut.

At the time, he was on assignment in Pakistan, following a promising tip which he expected to lead to a face - to - face interview with Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani (Ikram Bhatti), a religious figure rumored to be behind assorted al - Qaeda operations.

This installment finds the intrepid CIA analyst on assignment in Moscow to foil a terrorist attempt to cripple the U.S. economy.

The rest of the film is about Dredd and Anderson on assignment in the massive Peach Trees complex where they are working on a brutal triple murder.

Here (Unrated) Romance drama, narrated by Peter Coyote, about an American cartographer (Ben Foster) who falls in love with a photographer (Lubna Azabal) from a peasant family while on assignment in Armenia.

The film is about Mitch Rapp, an «ordinary every day all - American athlete and scholar» recruited by the CIA, becoming one of the best assassins they've ever seen, but he gets into trouble on an assignment in Beirut.

Jet plays a Chinese undercover cop named Liu Jian, who while an on assignment in France, is framed for the murder of a certain bigwig by a French law enforcement honcho, Inspector Richard (Karyo, The Patriot).

On assignment in China, where the world's tallest skyscraper has been built, the building is set ablaze with Ford framed for the crime.

When her husband, Newsweek photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn: Simon Birch), goes missing on assignment in the Balkans, fellow Newsweeker Sarah (Andie MacDowell: Town and Country), goes in search of him.

July 12, 2012 • In 2009, two Italian photographers on assignment in Detroit kept stumbling across old photos around the city.

Fortunately, her mother Abbess sends her off on an assignment in the world.

A student works on an assignment in the College Access Room at WHEELS.

One of the participants shared that she «really appreciated that the «assignments» were open - ended enough that [she] could apply [the results] to [her] own work», and another participant commented, «This [course] was so much better than any other (M) OOC I've ever participated in before... With this course, I felt like I had the autonomy to proceed at my own pace while still being able to interact with other course members in meaningful ways (e.g. getting constructive criticism / feedback on my assignments in a timely manner, seeing what other people created, etc.)».

(Photo by Blaine Harden) TOKYO — While on assignment in Japan recently, Blaine...

Currently, she works with teachers, principals, and district administrators to develop coursework and district wide curricula focused on assignments in an effort to ensure equity and opportunity.

She has taught grades 4 - 6 and has served as a teacher on assignment in charge of professional development in her district.

In 2003, as a writer on assignment in Sudan for Newsweek International, Skinner met his first survivor of slavery.

This was the result of a New York Times journalist being treated with acupuncture while on assignment in China.

The open plan one bedroom apartments are popular with single business executives on assignment in Sydney as they offer fully self - contained spaces and a private balcony with affordable rates at the doorstep of regional and national headquarters and offices.

I became the managing editor of a «spiritual lifestyles» magazine and was on an assignment in Northern Ireland when I found out the magazine was folding.

World famous adventure writer and photographer, Ty Sawyer, is on assignment in Another Shade of Blue.

Atlas returns to host the show after spending last week on assignment in San Francisco...

In Ghost Warrior 3, players take on the role of Jonathan «Jon» North who is on assignment in Georgia while also working on a mission of his own.

I was on an assignment in London for two months and was living in a house that was falling apart.

Jean - Claude Moschetti is a French photojournalist who, while on assignment in West Africa, became fascinated with the secret societies that exist there.

(Power died last year while on assignment in Uganda.)

I am currently on assignment in [Hong Kong or Japan or China].

This week on the show, Daniel Bader is on assignment in Hawaii.

Not exact matches

Giving employees assignments or work that is slightly beyond their skill level is a great way to encourage growth and train them to take on more responsibility in the business.

Prior to her current role, Nancy was a General Assignment reporter in London where she reported regularly on the EU referendum and the French election.

Millennials in particular «really want to constantly learn new things, so give them lots of stretch assignments — which doesn't just mean piling on more work.

Jersey Standard photographers cover certain routine assignments such as official dinners and tanker launchings, but for the most part they work on «picture essays» — a detailed coverage of the Gloucester fishing fleet, for example, or lumbering in the Northwest, or river transportation.

Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

You will gradually be trusted to take on larger and more meaningful initiatives if you continually show attention to detail and shine in your current assignments.

To avoid something like a missed deadline, get back to the basics: Spend some one - on - one time with each person to talk through the steps involved in a project after you give out work assignments.