Sentence examples for assume direction from inspiring English sources

Boswell asked Rousseau to "assume direction of me".

Previously, the state, through the Senate, largely had direction of its armed forces; now the armed forces began to assume direction of the state.

She assumed direction of his modern-dance company in 1996, two years after his death.

I took more responsibility for the family, and assumed direction for my life.

Gerald Fitzgerald, 14th earl of Desmond, then assumed direction of the enterprise.

Ramon Godó Lallana assumed direction of the paper in 1897 and began to build it into a leading national daily.

Within a year of his resignation from Buick, Chrysler had assumed direction of both Willys-Overland Company and Maxwell Motor Company , Inc

In October Lindet assumed direction of the Central Food Committee, which was to requisition food and military supplies for the troops.

But Mr. Lago said that Cardinal Francis George, who assumed direction of the archdiocese in 1997 after Cardinal Bernardin's death, did not seek to influence their decisions.

Although universities in the 17th century provided some support for mathematics, they became increasingly ineffective as state-supported academies assumed direction of advanced research.

Kagame assumed direction of the civil war, which was suspended in August 1993 by a peace agreement that promised but never delivered real power sharing.