He heard footsteps behind him and knew that Antonia had returned from her self-appointed task in the kitchen.

This was her self-appointed task, and his unsolicited participation would constitute interference.

You are spared, girl, to carry out your self-appointed task and one of greater importance.

The author encounters his double, whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel.

She could not, must not fail in her self-appointed task so soon after beginning it.

A good policy, had he gone through with it, but Mooch didn't complete his self-appointed task.

But if Jones remains the favorite in the 100, her self-appointed task of winning five gold medals continues to grow more complicated.

It took the Shechenag less than four hours to reinstate power and return to their self-appointed task.

Upon this self-appointed task he spent himself with the passion dominated by patience, which characterized him when his whole heart was bent toward an end.

I have simply looked in to know how your self-appointed task was progressing.