How To Use Assistant In A Sentence

Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients. Times, Sunday Times
His assistant, a pretty young woman, is bright, very capable, and eager to help.
Being a shop assistant means that you're on your feet all day long.
Some menswear shops do sell more imaginative clothes - but the assistants have rarely met any customers over the age of 36.
Lisa has two daughters, 12 and 16, and works as an administrative assistant in a bank.

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He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts.
She was previously editorial and production assistant at Product Communication, in London.
He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph.
We've gotten better with our techniques and applying them predeparture, ensuring we're looking at as broad a section of potential risk as possible, said Kevin McAleenan, deputy assistant commissioner of field operations at Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.CBP said the gap in U.S. security practices wasn't obvious until after the attempted Christmas attack. U.S. blocks 350 with suspected ties to terrorists
I would also argue that the results Kumon reports achieving have little to do with their philosophy and practice about teaching and learning and much more to do with the fact that it gets parents and assistants as its teachers are called genuinely involved in children's learning. Ellen Galinsky: Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten? How About a Good Track to Learning in Kindergarten and Beyond?
It was no affair of his that she had left the London studio in the capable hands of her assistant.
Personal digital assistants offer everything, from e-mail, word processing and time and billing to reading e-books and playing games.
She had to leave school aged 16 and worked in a tax office and as an assistant stage manager for a theatre group. Times, Sunday Times
This certifies that the bearer is a Volunteer Junior Assistant Deputy co-operating with the police force of Rocky Beach. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
There they meet a scientist named Yuri Popov, who explains he is the research assistant to Professor Vladmir Magus, who has been studying parapsychological phenomena under the sea. Aquaman Special #1 - 1988
What's stopping assistant coach Patrick Ewing from clobbering him in practice.
Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
Randy is Mr. Lahey's obsequious sidekick, lover and Sunnyvale's assistant trailer park supervisor.
The homilist was Father Jerry Wooten, assistant pastor of the church that hosted the Mass, Holy Trinity in Gainesville, Va. Solemn Mass in Virginia: A Hopeful Sign of the New Liturgical Movement
During the divorce proceedings the husband got his assistant to front for him at the office.
Elsewhere, it may be acceptable for shop assistants to flatter and cajole you into buying anything, irrespective of whether it suits you.
For the next four years Mr. Etaix worked for Tati as a draughtsman, gagman and ultimately as an assistant director on "My Uncle. Still Clowning Around
The manager called out to an assistant in the back of the shop to bring a glass of water.
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life
He was a red-blooded assistant bank manager.
The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling.
The court also upheld the decision of the assistant recorder to reject the counterclaim which the defendant sought to introduce.
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The general manager gave his assistant carte blanche in this matter.
It was about 11: 05 this morning, while while we were asking questions of Mr. Fleischer -- as we always do in the morning -- what we call the gaggle -- Gordon Johndroe, who is an assistant who works for Mr. Fleischer, came in and handed him a Post-it note it, and on that note it said, We must evacuate this section of the West Wing. CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2001
Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.
By day he works as the personal assistant for the boss of a haulage firm.
The problem is that at the time Roosevelt was only Assistant Secretary of the Navy, albeit a particularly pushy occupant of that office.
My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.
For the southeastern district, assistant, thirty-six hundred Southeastern dollars; second assistant, three thousand dollars; deputy district attorney, such compensation as shall be fixed by the district attorney, with the approval of the chief justice of the superior court. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
There is a lot of sense for eight or nine of the major heads of state getting together privately to discuss issues in an informal way without this huge caravanserai of pressmen and aides and assistants.
She's a personal assistant as distinct from a secretary.
About 100 workers' representatives attended the hearing, but Sony was only represented by two Indonesian assistant managers.
His staff officers were white except for a black warrant officer, the assistant regimental adjutant.
There's an opening for an editorial assistant in our department.
He has worked as an editor, copywriter, lecturer, careworker, sheep wrangler, bookshop assistant and supply teacher.
The referees and their assistants look like nervous wrecks before the match. Times, Sunday Times
He worked his way up from kitchen porter, assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.
She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants, which presumably had been simulated.
Keegan had his assistant Terry McDermott later explained a plane to catch at Manchester airport on Saturday night.
Each sous chef has four assistant chefs under him who, in turn, have trainee cooks under them.
Yet he recognized that he needed active assistants to break through the lines of bureaucratic retrenchment, and he often used plenipotentiaries to investigate, control, and bully on his behalf.
It’s a lousy first day on the job for dental assistant Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. “Accidentally Dead” by Dakota Cassidy
Similarly, a New York court ruled that a school district could transfer a teacher who married her assistant principal.
I am pleased to tell you that your application for the post of Assistant Editor has been successful.
She is bound to the rules and the choir, but not to the private recitation of the Divine Office; she can take part in chapters, except in those in which others are admitted to vows; she cannot be elected superior, mother-vicaress, mistress of novices, assistant, counsellor, or treasurer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
It's really a great opportunity for people to get out into the woods, said David Lee, assistant director of program operations at Northeast Passage, which runs disability-related sports and recreation programs and services throughout New England. N.H. wilderness trails offer unparalleled disabled access
A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider.
At 17 she got a job as a health care assistant at Airedale Hospital, where advice from a ward sister encouraged her to start training as a nurse.
I tried talking to her to keep her calm while someone went to get the assistant manager of the club.
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Is it true that the magician's assistants have all the fun, though? Times, Sunday Times
Marvin Herndon was a post-doctoral assistant to Hans Suess and Harold C. Urey in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Kepler Discovers Planets-like Objects Hotter Than Stars | Universe Today
Shop assistants should do their best endeavors to give the customers satisfaction.
From 1953 he was assistant to the managing editor, serving as media organiser for the Perth Commonwealth Games and for early tours to the promising mineral regions of the north-west.
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an unknowledgeable assistant
Robin, a sharp-tongued New Yorker, was working for a magazine aimed at woman issues as an assistant editor. Frank was Robin's two-day old boyfriend.
He unleashed a torrent of abuse againstthe unfortunate shop assistant.
One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.
There was £699 paid to extra staff that had to be drafted in such as pages, footmen, cellar assistants and glass and silver pantry assistants.
He buzzed his assistant and she brought in the new holo posters, already on display that very day in all of HI's Los Angeles holotheaters.
My assistant will now demonstrate the machine in action.
It was the doctor's assistant who explained I had a skin condition called dehiscence, which means wounds tend to not stay closed. Women Among Us: Terry Galloway
Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
Assistant coach Andre Human said he wasn't entirely happy with the scrumming of the Bulldogs and would be working on that.
He was stopped at the airport by an assistant superintendent of police.
The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict.
Early in her career, Rothenberg worked as an assistant to Joan Jonas, a performance artist.
Junior nurses and healthcare assistants more involved in physical care seemed able to recognise that there was more to care than drugs, surgery, and invasive procedures.
Id. A person employed by a lobbyist (or a person employed by the lobbyist's employer who works under the lobbyist's direction) to assist the lobbyist in nonclerical lobby activities must be listed as an assistant on the lobbyist's registration. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
On his discharge from the army in 1918 he had become an unsalaried lecturer at Freiburg and an assistant to Husserl, who had become professor at the University in 1916.
The removal ... of John Demjanjuk is a historic moment in the federal government's efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice," said U.S. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.
I handed the boots, my letter and the reply to a pleasant, submissive sales assistant who went to fetch a manager.
Half of all physician assistants work in primary care; others work in emergency care, surgery, orthopaedics, and other specialties.
Such daily routines are alternated between myself and my assistant.
He started work under J.J. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron, before becoming an assistant demonstrator of physics.
Our equipe, our "team," - the French is beginning to emerge from deep layers of my unconscious -- includes six of us: Lee-Ann juggling logistics as before, with Cassidy, my assistant back home, here to help her and me; Amy, the social worker who is our clinical director, will come tomorrow. James S. Gordon: At School: A Place to Help Haitian Children
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Under the reforms, support assistants took over 24 clerical and routine tasks from teachers when the new term began last week.
From then on, they referred to the bodacious OSS assistant by that “Dumas title,” and on such a slender reed a mutual understanding was formed. A Covert Affair
Half of all physician assistants work in primary care; others work in emergency care, surgery, orthopaedics, and other specialties.
The friars and their native assistants produced an immense number of grammars, dictionaries, catechisms, confessional manuals, sermon outlines, chronicles, and even religious dramas.
When his grandson was born in 1604, his family of three had four servants, apart from his factotum and sole studio assistant, Francisco de Preboste.
Another worked as an assistant district attorney. Times, Sunday Times
Seven assistants had experience working with elementary-school children in small-group or tutorial settings, and two assistants spoke Spanish and English.
When I began ordained ministry as an assistant pastor in Fairport, New York, I was invited to be part of a pastors' group that met monthly to study the pericopes for the next month's preaching.
The Assistant Commissioner didn't go into details.
I gave the report to what's-her-name - the new marketing assistant.
Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers. FOXNews.com
A personal assistant has to wait by the door and have the sunglasses and the shoes ready. The Sun
When tartar, argol, oxalic acid, lactic acids and other assistants of an organic nature are used, then a different effect is obtained, the bichromate is completely decomposed, and a deposit of chromium oxide formed on the wool. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
They held firm until an assistant referee flagged for a penalty that defied belief.
To avoid embarrassment an assistant would call his mobile phone as soon as he closed his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
The meeting was led by the assistant to the National Police chief for intelligence affairs.
It left his assistant Andy Watson to offer his observations on the game.
She audaciously leaves home to take up a job as an assistant on a literary magazine in New Delhi.
He will replace acting chief administrative officer Gary Stephany, who will assume his former post of assistant administrative officer.
The dress shop assistant was very supercilious.
Rhyme and meter are assistants to memory.
He arrives driving a golf cart with two personal assistants who will never leave his side.
‘In September a thresher shark was spotted near Turbot Bank, off Freshwater West,’ said Mark Burton, assistant marine conservation officer at Skomer Marine Nature Reserve.
I wondered as to where the assistant was located whose duty it was to take down whatever information I might loudly vouchsafe. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
He came to Arizona State University as an assistant coach in 1984.
I'll ask my personal assistant to deal with this.
After that, the instructor could become an assistant professor.
To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
It capped a memorable first season in charge for Wetheriggs manager Andrew Ridley, his assistant Bob Norman and coach Paul Renwick.
The course tutor and then assistant coach, Jim Harrick Jr, invited answers from students to a series of mind-blowing posers, including these.
Who was Osvaldo's chief assistant these days, X. Ray or the Corporal?
Co-incidentally, the programme credits list the same name for ‘Camera’ and ‘Assistant Producer’.
Casting his eye down the table, he rudely dismisses his assistant with a wave of his hand.
He forced his way into the dispensary and grabbed the pharmacist's 60-year-old assistant.
James Bibb , assistant professor and the study's senior author.
The assistant chief watched as she was forced to reclean toilets and showers and was then punished further by being ordered to clean long-neglected storage rooms, light fixtures, and so on, in an ever-lengthening list of humiliating chores. Getting Even
One thing that saves me in this process is my administrative assistant. Christianity Today
Mr Turrell, who previously worked in the family building firm, rejoined the district as an assistant Scoutmaster and has stayed with the association ever since.
A patrol of bipedal Inorganics moved past the alley where the scientist and his assistant waited.
He sent out trusted assistants to make the local arrangements, chivvied them if they did not make fast enough progress, and belaboured officials who prevaricated or objected.
Her professional life continues its steady ascent, and the novel culminates with her promotion to the position of assistant minister of education.
He was a teaching assistant for introductory agronomy and crop management courses while pursing his graduate degree.
She emerged with an armload of designer black bags, requiring two shop assistants to carry her haul to her car.
The manager assistant came here to execute a few small commissions for the manager.
Have the assistant who will fire the trigger, out of camera shot on the ground.
A supermarket assistant, in cahoots with a customer, wrapped goods and deliberately understated the price.
That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
His TV face was once likened to an undertaker's assistant. The Sun
Despite this, the hiring of a personal assistant might be a reasonable accommodation in some circumstances.
His executive perks grew by 52% to $548,821, mostly because of $319,878 in postretirement benefits to cover the cost of home security and five years of technology support and the services of an administrative assistant. Compensation for Caterpillar Executives Jumped in 2010
The responsibilities that come with a teaching or research assistantship, on the other hand, draw one into a community and help build a professional identity and sense of commitment.
I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
In my own discipline, chemistry, I see lecture classes of several hundreds, followed by smaller laboratory sections taught by unfledged graduate assistants.
In the home she may ask the carer to perform the tasks of the assistant therapist.
They need an assistant who is willing to stay for six months.
As a young assistant professor naïve in departmental politics I was quite vulnerable, and had a difficult time during my subsequent years at Michigan. Carl E. Wieman - Autobiography
Bonanni, the former assistant director for Installations and Logistics.
The shop assistant looked a little pained. Times, Sunday Times
Others resort to exploitation, as in the case of an injured officer who, with the help of a resentful assistant, attempts to trade tobacco leaves with the retreating soldiers in exchange for food and other necessaries.
After that, the instructors instructor could become an assistant professor.
She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.
Would it not be simpler if we sent the account to your father, missy?" suggested the shopwalker, coming to join the assistant at the counter. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
I was a lab assistant and weighed just 7st 3lb. The Sun
In a day filled with numerous sidebars requested by the Assistant District Attorney Thomas, Smith maintained her innocence and asserted that Laura Jones could not have committed the crime.
She couldn't attend the meeting so her assistant took her place.
I also spoke to the assistant editor, when he came in.
My job is somewhere between a typist and a personal assistant.
The supermarket is taking on a few temporary assistants for the Christmas season.
He then served on county staff development staffs until becoming assistant principal at Bryant in 1998.
That's where Lisa Cassity, a medical assistant at the town's clinic, recalls first seeing him when she was a fifth-grader. After 204 seasons, town still adores the man they call 'Gilb'
For example, the Saturday assistant in a local electrical outlet isn't a good person to parley with.
The assistant took my inside leg measurement.
This float enables the assistant to give customers change early in the day, before more cash comes in from sales.
Concept lists were created by having two research assistants search each textbook and catalogue all concepts in a heading, subheading, boldface type, or italics, as well as those concepts given explicit definition.
Patricia Moss, an assistant dean at St. George's School, says students were not the only ones reporting better results.
Remember also to tie the ischiatic and gluteal arteries, in the posterior flap before ligating the femoral and profunda, for if the main artery is properly held by the assistant, it will not bleed. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
He worked as an undertaker's assistant when he left school. Times, Sunday Times
It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice. Tew's Day!
Furthermore, studies indicate that it's more prevalent in women than in men, according to Bonnie Zylbergold, assistant editor of American Sexuality, an online magazine.
The painter exchanged a bemused look with his assistant, but agreed, quoted a price, and asked what subjects I would like him to paint.
Part of the assistant's job is to help to organize conferences and keep the director informed.
We were separate in almost every way, '' said George Z. Toscas, who is the deputy assistant attorney general over counterterrorism and counterespionage. Justice Dept.'s National Security Division draws mixed reviews 4 years
Since the president was unavailable, I spoke with her assistant to arrange an appointment. unnecessary repetition.
I cannot accept you as my assistant.
He dismissed his assistant with a grandiose sweep of his hand.
McKay became "liberalized" by World War II as great as a University of Oregon, where he became a "star" among West Coast assistants. Excerpt from PIGSKIN WARRIORS: 140 YEARS OF THE GAMES GREATEST ...
And now I'm a newly minted PI with a postdoc and a part time research assistant and have to relinquish control of the day-to-day benchy stuff ... and I'm not sorry to admit that I am completely sick of doing bench work myself and hope to avoid it like the plague from here on. Control freak
Penn State placed assistant coach Mike McQueary on administrative leave, capping a tumultuous week in which his name surfaced as a... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
The owner rules both workers and family with a rod of iron but one of his daughters rebels by falling in love with his meek shop assistant.
Many northern Red Sea dive-guides use drysuits at this time of year, but this doesn't stop British sales assistants selling lightweight shortie wetsuits to those about to visit Egypt in spring.
The former care assistant said the aerobics was having a positive effect on her attitude to the illness.
The three research assistants and the chief investigator made initial individual readings and codings of the documents' references to composing.
Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints.
Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
For Joan D' Mello, Assistant Director of Aliyavar, staging the play was a dream come true.
A deluge of postgraduate applicants for the posts of lower division clerks, junior assistants, sweepers, liftmen and durwans have left the Calcutta University (CU) authorities struggling to select the candidates for 200-odd vacancies. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature ( Hong Kong Shue Yan University ).
The lack of help has forced the part-time student and administrative assistant to move to her parents' South San Francisco home.
Then, with his assistant, he put on his white robes, mask, gloves and other precautions for asepsis, setting out the apparatus for the intravenous administration of the drug that would kill the spirillum. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
They talk about their 3-year-old seeing them in their clericals and they would tell them, 'Please take that off,' said Stewart-Sicking, an assistant professor of pastoral counseling at Loyola University Maryland. Minister moms split between pulpit, potty training
On the leftis Dan Diffendale, research assistant, Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, in the ash altar of Zeus trench, at the discovery of a group of Mycenaean kylikes, circa 13th century BCE. Signs of the Times
The shop assistant was very supercilious towards me when I asked for some help.
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Approximately half had organised or helped with playgroups and a similar number had previously worked as welfare assistants.
Did you want to talk to the chairman himself, or could his personal assistant help you?
The skill and tenacity of the teaching assistants were very apparent, often in the face of challenging new extensions to their role.
Metal-dielectric materials, also known as plasmonics, can be used to confine an optical field to a very small scale, much smaller than conventional insulators," said Min, lead author on the Nature paper and former postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's Lab, now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
The shop assistant guided me to the shelf where the gardening books were displayed.
‘Those other teams would always fold one way or the other; you could count on it,’ says one SEC assistant coach.
But after a couple years of fielding calls from reporters at 3 a.m. about the latest suicide or inmate disturbance on Rikers Island, and reluctantly concluding that an assistant commissionership for public affairs wasn ' t in the cards, I cleaned out my desk, collected my back pay and wrote a piece " on spec " for the Village Voice about a subject I knew well — the Rikers Island Christmas Pageant. SoHo
It is an astonishing comeback for someone who, five years ago, was charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling a black lavatory assistant a 'jigaboo' before charmingly punching her in the face. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Babe, why are you wasting your time with an assistant to a deputy secretary, when you could be with me, a deputy assistant undersecretary?
When she is given the opportunity to hire an assistant, Carla plumps for the oddball Paul, a comprehensively under qualified but malleable parolee in whom she spots considerable potential.
She introduced herself as Dr Grafton, the assistant director, and led the way to her office. LOST SUMMER
The assistant guide came next, was pretty funny, but he skittered to a stop. What is the most fun that you had eather hunting or fishing.

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