In defining the human species, the genome assumes distinctive flourishes in the major ethnic groups that developed as humans spread throughout the world, and specifies the genetic endowment of individuals.
The Gospel Coalition states in their foundational documents that men and women "assume distinctive roles," that the husband is head over the wife, with the wife "submitting to her husband in a way that models the love of the church for her Lord".
In low-country South Carolina, American slavery assumed a distinctive form, one that has captured the attention of generations of historians.
Later, the term caitya assumed the distinctive meaning of a meeting place or meditation grove for mendicant renunciates and a pilgrimage centre for the laity.
As a philosophical ideology and movement, positivism first assumed its distinctive features in the work of Comte, who also named and systematized the science of sociology.
By this time he had acquired followers, and the little group had assumed a distinctive garb; but Ignatius soon fell under suspicion of heresy and was imprisoned and tried.
Panahi's career as a film-maker began as a protégé of Abbas Kiarostami, and soon assumed a distinctive character of its own, increasingly fusing two converging aspects – formal and thematic – that became his cinematic signature: technical virtuosity in his cinematic imagination and social consciousness, which graced his aesthetic formalism.
Firefighters did not use respiratory protection until the fire had been in progress for about an hour, when the smoke assumed a distinctive metallic taste and smell.
A new Arab intelligentsia developed a strong national awareness and began to assume a distinctive Arab-Palestinian identity––a dangerous threat, he believed, to Zionism.
Much of his large-scale symphonic writing dwells in Shostakovich's mournful-antic shadow, yet in chamber forms Weinberg assumes a distinctive profile, his melodic fluency underpinned by a flair for tension and surprise.
