Upon assuming office he reaffirmed Egypt's commitment to the peace treaty with Israel.
Upon assuming his post, he lived closely with the Maya Indians, learning their language and adopting their way of life.
Upon assuming leadership of the conglomerate, Ratan aggressively sought to expand it, and increasingly he focused on globalizing its businesses.
Upon assuming his new role as chairman and chief executive, Mr. Cantalupo picked Mr. Bell to be his president and eventual successor.
Upon assuming the partriarchate, he expressed his long-standing desire for increased dialogue to end the church's millennium-old rift with the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon assuming his new office, he tried to institute the program he had used successfully in Kii to alleviate that fief's monetary problems.
Upon assuming office, President Otto Pérez Molina vowed to ensure that practices condemned in the past would not be part of Guatemala's future.
Upon assuming office, Cleveland was confronted with evidence that some of these claims had been fraudulently obtained by railroads, speculators, cattlemen, or lumbering interests.
Upon assuming office after Yeltsin's resignation at the New Year, Putin signed a decree exempting the president from any criminal or civil suit -- an act widely believed to be part of the reason he was chosen as Yeltsin's heir.
Upon assuming the position of CEO of the Economist Group in 1993, she moved to the magazine's London headquarters and branched into businesses such as financial research services and sector analyses.
Upon assuming the government of a province, the governor would issue an edict to supplement the lex provinciae; during his tenure he was not bound by the edicts of his predecessors.
