Some states have assigned their adjutant general the responsibility for overseeing homeland security.

They assumed that states would assign their electoral votes to individuals with strong local and national reputations.

At the time of the disaster, the state had just 12 engineers, working in pairs, assigned to inspect 3,425 bridges.

The state, he said, has assigned Imam chaplains to most of its prisons.

Some states assign phone answering to an organization separate from the one handling mail inquiries.

The states cannot even assign uniform numbers to their tax forms.

The state assigns each state jail offender to the unit closest to his or her county.

Under those programs, the states would assign family practitioners and other health professionals to needy areas within the same state.

One feature of the pre-reform era was that the state assigned jobs to high school and university graduates.

Under the state's new Medicaid rules, women will have 60 days to choose a managed care plan before the state assigns them to one.